A Day In A Nurse's Life

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Hello everyone!

I am collecting real stories for a web documentary project.

The central point must be a specific date (month, day, year) in your life you cannot forget. It can be anything but the outcome has to be a learning experience. As a nurse I am sure you have some dates you cannot forget. Would you like to share them?

The most obvious dates are birthdays and anniversaries but if you tell me " I got married on June 27th 1962 and I have been happy thereafter" good for you but it will not be enough.

It can be the day you moved to another country or the day you had an accident which turned out to be a learning experience or the day when an event changed your life forever.

Please feel free to write me at [email protected] and I will keep in touch with you!

Thank you very much for reading my message,

Jean

My Web Documentary

shygirl

279 Posts

Do we get paid anything for our stories?

Or do you just get it all?

live4today, RN

5,099 Posts

Specializes in Community Health Nurse.

Wellllllllllllllllllllll.........I'd like to help ya out an all.......but seein' that I write me own works and stuff....can't give away no trade secrets here. :chair: :)

Okay.....to be nice an all.......First.....if you can guess my age by looking at my photo.....I'll give you a tiny wittle story. You have 60 seconds.......counting down NOW........60...59...58...57...56...

shygirl

279 Posts

Renee, DON'T do it, even if she does guess your real age of 29! By looking at your pretty avatar!

Love-A-Nurse

3,932 Posts

Specializes in LTC, ER, ICU,.
Originally posted by cheerfuldoer

Wellllllllllllllllllllll.........I'd like to help ya out an all.......but seein' that I write me own works and stuff....can't give away no trade secrets here. :chair: :)

Okay.....to be nice an all.......First.....if you can guess my age by looking at my photo.....I'll give you a tiny wittle story. You have 60 seconds.......counting down NOW........60...59...58...57...56...

:chuckle Behave, "mom"! :chuckle

tatoeba

9 Posts

Hmmm! I would say 28? :)

tatoeba

9 Posts

Do we get paid anything for our stories?

Or do you just get it all?

No because in a documentary nobody gets paid. It would encourage people to distort or embellish their story to get money. Sorry! :eek:

Do you have one?

Jean

live4today, RN

5,099 Posts

Specializes in Community Health Nurse.

Oh behave! [says my good buddy Austin Powers] :chair: :lol2:

Thanks kiddies! Good lookin' out for Big Momma here. Big Daddy would be proud! :rotfl: :kiss

-jt

2,709 Posts

Doesnt the person who makes it get paid? Most "documentaries" Ive seen required the recorder to get into the trenches with the subject - follow them thru the day, interview them as they went along, etc. How do you do a "documentary" by just collecting stories from strangers? Anyway, I dont know if you will find many people who will be comfortable with or willing to write their own stories for nothing & then just pass them along to you for you to sell yourself. They could use their own stories for their own benefit & even for their masters thesis if they keep them to themselves.

shygirl

279 Posts

You've just given me an idea! Thanks!

-jt

2,709 Posts

Remember the Broadway hit A Chorus Line? It was created because the writer thought the lives of Broadway dancer-wanna-bes were interesting in how they came to choose the career, how difficult it was for them to constantly go to auditions & be rejected, how they made ends meet when they didnt get the part, what they did with their lives when it was time to throw in the towel, etc. He interviewed the dancers he met at auditions for other shows, compiled the stories, & put together A Chrous Line from those stories. The script was literally the words of those he had interviewed. A Chorus Line ended up being the longest running show on Broadway. The dancers who had given the interviews that created the show were paid just $1 and 1% of the royalties.

tatoeba

9 Posts

Doesnt the person who makes it get paid? Most "documentaries" Ive seen required the recorder to get into the trenches with the subject - follow them thru the day, interview them as they went along, etc. How do you do a "documentary" by just collecting stories from strangers?

Well I can feel the anger in your voice. Did I hurt you in some ways?

I have been a documentarian for more than 12 years and I did the 'trenches' work each time. You are very well informed about my job :) much more than me about nurses!

Anyway if you read carefully my website purpose here you will understand better my endeavour on this specific project. The internet is a wonderful tool to get contacts and leads when you are serious about your passion :rolleyes:

By the way, your idea about a nurse book is great! Go for it!!!

Wishing you the best,

Jean

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