Bedpans To Boardrooms

Is Sarah Jane playing with fire? Hold on tight, this is not what we expected to happen to the fun loving career nurse we met in Ooh Matron! Sarah Jane's life is set to be turned upside down as she juggles the pursuit of her nursing career with the roles of wife and mother. Her nursing career deviates off course into the aged care sector to accommodate her personal life and calls for a variety of sacrifices and compromises to keep a career and family life on track. It's a journey that sees Sarah Jane dealing with childbirth, bereavement, divorce, miscarriage and child custody issues at the hands of a real life Casanova!

From Bedpans to Boardrooms is intended to take you from tears to belly laughs as you experience some snafus in family life and health care that the average person would never believe. The story is inspirational in the sense that it could be everyones story.

From Bedpans to Boardrooms is intended to take you from tears to belly laughs as you experience some snafus in family life and health care that the average person would never believe. The story is inspirational in the sense that it could be everyone's story.

From Bedpans to Boardrooms is intended to take you from tears to belly laughs as you experience some snafus in family life and health care that the average person would never believe. The story is inspirational in the sense that it could be everyone's story.

Hold on tight, this is not what we expected to happen to the fun loving career nurse we met in Ooh Matron!Is Sarah Jane playing with fire?Sarah Jane's life is set to be turned upside down as she juggles the pursuit of her nursing career with the roles of wife and mother. Her nursing career deviates off course into the aged care sector to accommodate her personal life and calls for a variety of sacrifices and compromises to keep a career and family life on track. It's a journey that sees Sarah Jane dealing with childbirth, bereavement, divorce, miscarriage and child custody issues at the hands of a real life Casanova! Beta reader comments:"This is more than a nursing memoir, it is a story of survival, friendship and love as Sarah Jane shares her desperate and at times painful experiences as a single mother." "Aged care nursing in an Essex seaside town during a period of rapid growth in the nursing and care home sector. A must read memoir to reminisce with which will pull at your heart strings, raise a smile and may possibly make you shed a tear."

Hold on tight, this is not what we expected to happen to the fun loving career nurse we met in Ooh Matron!Is Sarah Jane playing with fire?Sarah Jane's life is set to be turned upside down as she juggles the pursuit of her nursing career with the roles of wife and mother. Her nursing career deviates off course into the aged care sector to accommodate her personal life and calls for a variety of sacrifices and compromises to keep a career and family life on track. It's a journey that sees Sarah Jane dealing with childbirth, bereavement, divorce, miscarriage and child custody issues at the hands of a real life Casanova! Beta reader comments:"This is more than a nursing memoir, it is a story of survival, friendship and love as Sarah Jane shares her desperate and at times painful experiences as a single mother." "Aged care nursing in an Essex seaside town during a period of rapid growth in the nursing and care home sector. A must read memoir to reminisce with which will pull at your heart strings, raise a smile and may possibly make you shed a tear."

Do you want to make a bigger difference in people's lives by enabling them to manage their own Health & Wellbeing? You have the ability to achieve this through one conscious act . . .by changing the way you communicate with people. Communication typically consists of too much TELLING and not enough ASKING, which inhibits people taking responsibility for their own lives. This 'easy read' book gives practical tips that will enable you to enhance your communication skills and professional practice so that you can empower patients/clients, resulting in more engagement and motivation towards self-care. Ultimately, this will lead to less dependence upon services that are already struggling to cope, as well as healthier and happier people in the world. Develop best practice in your communication, become a Potentialiser and bring out the best in your patients, clients and colleagues!

Sarah Jane has no career aspirations, all she wants is to leave school, work as a cashier at Woolworths and get married. Then everything changes and she finds herself wearing a fluorescent pink uniform and studying to get into Nursing School. What inspired this surprising change of direction? What happens when she leaves home to live in a garrison town with a housemate who is a party animal? The big question being, is she really cut out to be a nurse? Let's start at the beginning with Sarah Jane as a sixteen-year-old country girl, a bit old fashioned but who has a mischievous sense of humour and who suddenly decides she wants to be a nurse! "This funny, yet poignant nursing memoir has Sarah Jane's trademark honest writing style which shines through in every story she tells. From starting her student nurse training in Essex to coping with patients in happy, sad and heart-breaking situations. It gives you a young woman's view into the realities of entering the world of nursing in the 1980’s. A highly entertaining and informative memoir which was able to take me from laughing out loud to having welled tears of empathy." S. Brewster