Ideas I had for helping to educate the public

Published Oct 21, 2015

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Originally I planned to do these after hubby and I both retired.

I think nurses could easily write childrens books that explains diseases in ways children will understand. A kindly neighbor nurse in each story for each child with a sick sibling, friend, parent, grandparent etc to put it all into simple simple words and help children understand what happens. Even just simple things like Grandma on oxygen at home and why. A way to start teaching 6-7-8-9 yr olds in story form. Someone who can draw or do graphics might animate stories and then who knows what might happen :)I always imagined giving the first few stories to a childrens hospital in electronic form and then putting them on amazon and adding more and more stories as I got better at writing them.

I did start writing a childrens story about ebola at one point and another idea I had and started but didn't finish was love stories with real people who have actual disabilities. Few of us find billionaires with private jets and many of us wouldn't want one. But falling in love with a cancer survivor or a guy or gal with a colostomy is real life and there are lots of ways to increase the tension of a love story with fears like they do in the normal romance books. And we know there are many chronic diseases love stories could educate the public about and be entertaining as well.

I have pancreatic cancer - so I'm giving these ideas away in hopes there will be many nurses writing stories and teaching the public after I'm gone. If a miracle occurs and I survive then I'll simply compete with all of you. I think if the romance book industry can have as many writers as they do now, there is no reason a lot of nurses can't write childrens books or romance medical stories.

Best to all of you! AllNurses is the best. And you are all the best nurses. Never doubt it.