Beyond Nurses Notes - A Journey to Choose Life by Mary M. Hale
(RNC, MSN, SRN, SCM), intertwines her stories from Pediatrics and
Obstetrics over a period of 27 years of her service at Albert Einstein
Medical Center in Philadelphia, PA. She includes several anecdotes from
her 10-year career working in Uganda under the rule of the villainous
leader Idi Amin, serving five of them as a nursing supervisor. Hale
believes these experiences with her patients in the United States and
abroad taught her about humanity and made her the person she is,
allowing her to "choose life" for herself.
Hale also shares her journey through her surgical experience as a
patient. In 2008, she chose life and survived a six-week hospitalization
for quadruple cardiac bypass surgery and a hysterectomy to eliminate
cancer which was successful. This is her second book about nursing.
About the Author:
Mary M. Hale, RNC, MSN, SRN, SCM, has been a Nurse-Midwife for 35 years.
Ten of those years she served under the Ministry of Health in Uganda,
East Africa where she set up the first post-graduate pediatric nursing
program. Hale has written about these experiences in her first book
On Uganda's Terms telling the obstacles to saving lives under the
worst of circumstances while working tirelessly against the odds of Idi
Amin.
She retired after 27 years in Pediatrics and Obstetrics at Albert
Einstein Medical Center, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 2006. Her
first year of retirement was spent writing her autobiography On
Uganda's Terms. In her second year she finished Beyond Nurses
Notes - A Journey to Choose Life.
