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FATAL DECISION: EDITH CAVELL 
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February 2013, brought “Nemo,” a blizzard and a hurricane that simultaneously hit the East Coast causing the most devastating storm of the century. They called it a “bombogenesis.” 


People flocked to the shelter for warmth, food and safety. Some needed electricity to run their oxygen concentrators, feeding pumps, and CPAP machines. But the food never arrived and when the power shut down, nothing worked and including the heat. Then a woman disappeared. 


This story is told by the award-winning author, Terri Arthur, RN, the Red Cross nurse who was assigned to the emergency shelter to manage the medical clinic. Arthur gives an account of good intentions, erratic bosses, mounting surprises, and unforeseen consequences swirling out of control. “I pondered that I might have failed in some way,” she writes. “Years later, this still haunts me. I continue to wonder what else I could have done.”

February 2013, brought “Nemo,” a blizzard and a hurricane that simultaneously hit the East Coast causing the most devastating storm of the century. They called it a “bombogenesis.” \\


People flocked to the shelter for warmth, food and safety. Some needed electricity to run their oxygen concentrators, feeding pumps, and CPAP machines. But the food never arrived and when the power shut down, nothing worked and including the heat. Then a woman disappeared. 


This story is told by the award-winning author, Terri Arthur, RN, the Red Cross nurse who was assigned to the emergency shelter to manage the medical clinic. Arthur gives an account of good intentions, erratic bosses, mounting surprises, and unforeseen consequences swirling out of control. “I pondered that I might have failed in some way,” she writes. “Years later, this still haunts me. I continue to wonder what else I could have done.”

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"It was amazing!

 

I found it extremely accurate in its description of what obstacles nurses encounter in their respective nursing care journey. The numerous barriers to basic patient safety are challenging beyond comprehension on a daily, no on a minute to minute basis. The conditions described in this book illustrate multiple fold the hardship under which nurses perform miracles every minute. Miracles never told nor evident . The obstacles are typically placed by administrators with financial interests, without concern for public safety. Thank you Terri Arthur for your book."

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        Terri Arthur, RN, BS, MS is a former disaster volunteer nurse for the American Red Cross and a charter member of the Nightingale Society in recognition for her generous support for nursing scholarship and research. For her work advocating for the health and safety of nurses, she was awarded the Kathryn McGinn-Cutler Award from the Mass. Nurses Association. The Boston Massachusetts State House awarded her with a Citation of Recognition. 

        Arthur’s book, Fatal Decision: Edith Cavell, WWI Nurse, won the Midwest Independent Publishers Award for Historical Fiction and was also a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award, an international competition. It has been optioned for film. 

        She is a former adjunct professor for Lesley University Graduate School, Cambridge, Massachusetts and the former nursing director of SEAK, a company that provides continuing education to nurses, doctors, and lawyers on occupational health and safety. 

        In addition to being an author, Terri has worked as a critical care nurse, staff educator, and clinical manager. She holds degrees in nursing, education and biology and master’s in health business management. She founded and continues to manage Medical Education Systems, Inc, an educational company.

 She has published in the “Journal of Emergency Nursing,” “The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing,” the “Navy Medical Magazine of History,” the “Nursing Standard” in England, and the American Red Cross on-line magazine “Nursing Matters Past and Present,” the “American Association for the History of Nursing,” and many other newspapers and magazines. 

        She is a frequently requested guest lecturer nationally and internationally speaking to historical societies, colleges, nursing schools, hospitals, women’s groups, military groups, and nursing associations.

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