In Lives in the Balance, Shalof compiles real-life stories by 25 nurses who work in intensive care units across North America. A Canadian company has recently optioned the rights to the grip-ping tales in her books A Nurse’s Story: Life, Death, and In-Between in an Intensive Care Unit and The Making of a Nurse, with plans to create a TV series. It got me thinking about how I could apply what I learned to tell true stories about my life as a nurse,” says Shalof, who has been working in Toronto General Hospital’s Medical Surgical Intensive Care Unit for 24 years. “I’d always written, but until then I didn’t know how to shape my material into stories. “I want them to understand the kind of skills and responsibilities we have, and the ways we keep patients safe and help them heal.”Ī creative writing course at U of T’s School of Continuing Studies in 1993 helped launch Shalof’s second career as an author. “I write because I want people to know that when they come in the hospital, their care is not all dependent on doctors,” says Shalof, the author of three memoirs about the often-unseen world of nursing and the editor of Lives in the Balance, a new collection of nurses’ stories. Tilda Shalof (BScN1983) calls herself a nurse first and an author second, but her two professions are intimately connected.
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