Who's Gonna Notice Anyway

Download or read book Who's Gonna Notice Anyway written by Rita M. Grady and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2000-07-28 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A career woman, proud and successful, a Nursing supervisor, wants things her way. She gets life on her terms until she deals with AIDS in her professional and personal life. Emergency Department supervisor, Mary , fights a budget and changing health care finances. She deals with an employees alcoholic wife; a nurse with a needle stick exposure to AIDS and a challenging black orderly. "Only in the Emergency Room" incidents fill her days. AIDS patients are causing the hospital to lose money. The crusty mouth sores, diarrhea, fevers, dementia and suffering take an emotional as well as financial toll on the nurses. Mary and another RN Manager overcome local resistance and seek support to open a halfway house for persons with AIDS in the capitol city of Sacramento, California. Nights are lonely for Mary. Are there any decent men out there? She meets and falls in love with an Engineer. Is AIDS in his background? Are marriage to this man and childbirth a realistic choice for a smugly independent business woman? Is a career focused life what she wants? Will she run away from AIDS? Can she? And, whos gonna notice anyway?