Through These Eyes

By Elizabeth Williams

Through These Eyes, is a collection of experiences and challenges in the form of stories during my nursing career that left an indelible mark upon my mind. Some of these experiences help to mold the way I saw my job and cared for my patients. Sometimes in executing one’s job as a nurse was like weathering a storm. The medical situation could be very critical, the storm brutal, survival depended on your execution of the client’s plan of care to save him/her and to save yourself. On days like that you really had to even breathe thoughtfully. Every day was a challenge to me. I prayed for guidance from a God who doesn’t exist for so many but for me the, “I am” was my lifeline. He was here before knowledge; therefore there was never a situation I didn’t trust him to help me assess and execute. I fought for every life that was put in my care as though my very existence depended on it. And you know what it did!
As a part of the Medical Profession Registered Nurses have adopted an oath to serve without harm.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 9, 2019
• ISBN: 9781796075205

Elizabeth Williams

Elizabeth Williams is a light worker and third generation Catholic Mystic, known in modern terms as a Modern Day Mystic. She founded and has owned The Center of Truth and Light for 17 years. Her client base ranges globally across Presidents of Universities, celebrities, leadership authors and speakers, bestselling authors, CEOs, housewives, nurses, teachers, those in transition to next dimension and caregivers. She lives in Syracuse, NY.

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CONTENTS

A Vision of Nursing

The Blind Lady who needed my help

The Sound of Shattering Glass

It was time

To Tough Teacher

Presentation, Oops

The Letter that Melted the Heart of the Administrator

Queen Esther

The Hunt was on for the Perfect Baby Sitter

Discovery of a child Abuser

From Nursing School to Working on a Medical Unit Alone

Tears of Relief

The Nurse that could Work Anywhere

A Special Hombre

Report All Incidents

The Piercing Scream of a mother

In the Company of the Police

AS You Sow, Ye Reap

The struggle to Succeed/ the sleeping Staff

Surgical Rounds dispute- Head in a noose

Nurses Marches in Protest

An old Hospital comes down

Off to Maryland

Minor in Acute Distress

The dispute

Clients switched

Code Blue Averted

I didn’t know him

The death of two colleagues

Death visits us again in the ER

Illicit Drugs Dependency

The Listening Doctors

Throat Obstruction

Where is the ER?

Promotion by the Director of Nursing

Client Collapse

Moving South

Incident Report Scare

Hell Comes in Search of Me!

New Unit-Great! Oops

Functioning on the New Unit

Secret Meetings

Negative vibrations/ Feelings

All Doors Open Except One

Two Weeks Old Note

Dispute/Rotation Nurse

Survey Team

Medication Errors

Sent back to my old unit to give medication

One Narcotic Over

Emergency 911

Missing Client

Award Accommodations’

Introduction

FROM MY EARLIEST CHILDHOOD I’VE wanted to be a nurse. Little did I know the experiences I would encounter. The lives that would appreciate my gentle touch and years after that touch still remember me. I was born on John’s Island South Carolina to Mr. Ernest Choice and Mrs. Frances Choice in the year 1948. I was the fifth of nine children. Our home had three bedrooms. Eventually there were five girls sleeping in one room, four of us slept on a double bed and one slept on a single folded bed. The three boys slept in the second bed room and our parents were in the third bedroom. My sisters and I had a lot of fun in our bedroom. My oldest sister liked to tell jokes and we spent our evenings listening to those jokes, laughing and laughing. We even enjoyed getting up at night and killing bed bugs together that came out of the mattress, those were very happy days but little did we know what the future had in store or where destiny would take us.

I was afraid so often, but I acted like a brave soldier. Even when I asked to go to New York in order to study nursing after completing High School. I was terrified of leaving home and going to the Big Apple known as New York. I had been there as a child therefore; I wasn’t at all surprise when the option came to return. My nursing career unfolded there in New York City. My observation senses were building and with that ability and prayer came compassion. I was guided to save lives with compassion and the developing six sense that doctors’ and nurses’ the world over seem to develop as they concentrated on their profession. That six sense seemed to help us dig a little deeper to find the right diagnosis that the appropriate treatment could be rendered.

I met people from every walk of life who sort out help for their ailment at the hospitals where I worked. This is a little of their stories through my eyes and a little of my stories as I provided the treatment ordered. May we learn from these educational experiences. Names and locations have been withheld to reserve the privacy and confidentiality of the individuals.

THROUGH THESE EYES, IS A collection of experiences and challenges in the form of stories during my nursing career that left an indelible mark upon my mind. Some of these experiences help to mold the way I saw my job and cared for my patients. Sometimes in executing one’s job as a nurse was like weathering a storm. The medical situation could be very critical, the storm brutal, survival depended on your execution of the client’s plan of care to save him/her and to save yourself. On days like that you really had to even breathe thoughtfully. Every day was a challenge to me. I prayed for guidance from a God who doesn’t exist for so many but for me the, I am was my lifeline. He was here before knowledge; therefore there was never a situation I didn’t trust him to help me assess and execute. I fought for every life that was put in my care as though my very existence depended on it. And you know what it did!

As a part of the Medical Profession Registered Nurses have adopted an oath to serve without harm.

In Memory of

MY BIOLOGICAL MOTHER, FRANCES GLADYS Brown Choice, who had only a third grade education but helped each one of her nine children to read. She was very gentle and humble but firm. She encouraged me in everything I attempted to undertake such as crocheting, knitting, piano playing, sewing and in fulfilling my dream of becoming a nurse. She was an excellent homemaker and great with finances. We kept a clean house or we knew how to run and pickup our toys before letting anyone in. She was quiet, but she knew how to discipline her children, and all turned out to be model citizens. I remember a moment in her life when she was very sick. The physicians’ thought at one point that they’d loss her but she came back changed. She called each one of her children to her bedside and blessed us as they did in the Bible in olden times. As she spoke there was a radiant glow about her. She declared, I found out what it really means to be born again. I wanted to cry for joy but I fought back the tears and just stood looking at her countenance. I