Episode 119: Rita Batchley, Nurse Author and Activist
Rita Batchley is not your ordinary RN. She is a teacher, author and speaker who happens to believe that nurses hold the key to real healthcare reform. Since graduating from nursing school over 28 years ago, Nurse Batchley has helped to deliver more than 3,000 babies and now, in her breakout novel Labor Pains, she delivers a gripping story that breathes life into the spirit of nursing. This timely story is sure to be loved by today’s nurses as well as those yearning to be delivered into a world where the primary ingredient in medicine is caring.
As “The Nurses’ Nurse,” Rita has dedicated her life to support nurse to patient ratio laws and she tells the effects of nursing on nurses as only someone with her experiences can. Rita contributes essays and editorials by way of her blog www.TheNursesNurse.com. She has dedicated her life to support nurse ratio laws.
About the book:
Labor Pains recounts a timely story sure to be loved by today’s nurses as well as those yearning to be delivered into a world where the main ingredient in medicine is caring.
Paige O’Neill, is a labor and delivery nurse, who works at Mercy Hospital where the mysteries of childbirth unfold. The trouble is, Paige desperately wants more children but can’t seem to have another of her own. Once a small community hospital, Mercy General becomes part of the huge medical monopoly, Merci-Corp. Where in spite of protest, dangerous working conditions caused by short staffing put patient lives in jeopardy. This, along with a secret from her past, adds to Nurse O’Neill’s tailspin into the deadly disease of alcoholism. A tragic death turns Paige’s world upside down, and a newfound friend helps her discover the truth of Merci-Corp’s dark plans. Only the strong will survive the birth of this corporate giant, which forces the nurses to make some surprising changes of their own.
Labor Pains is a story for those yearning to be delivered into a world where the main ingredient in medicine is caring. A tragic death turns Nurse Paige’s world upside down, and a new found friend helps her discover the truth of Merci-Corp’s alliance. Only the strong will survive the birth of this corporate takeover, which forces the nurses to make some surprising changes of their own.
Rita’s website: http://www.ritabatchleyrn.com
Rita’s blog: http://thenursesnurse.com
Here’s the YouTube video of Rita’s June 17th, 2014 interview:
