Nurses in the park: a personal account of the Christchurch earthquake.
I once wrote that nursing at its best is eminently forgettable, because what we do is to make the intolerable tolerable, the unbearable bearable and (after Taylor 1994) the extraordinary ordinary (Chiarella 2002). Lest the ability of nurses to do this be forgotten again, please indulge me with a personal account of my experiences with a group of urology nurses following the Christchurch earthquake. I don't know the names of all of them, so I am not going to name any of them. They know who they are and they know what they did, and I am forever in their debt. So I will tell my story so you will know theirs.