October 24, 2005 11:28 AM

The making of an ICU nurse
Posted by Douglas Eisenhartat 11:28 AM

Would you have what it takes? Check out this Boston Globe special report, a 4-part series on the training of an ICU nurse at Mass General Hospital:

M.J. and Julia had been thrown together for an extraordinary crash course in the ways of the Intensive Care Unit — Mass. General’s answer to the national shortage of veteran nurses. M.J. had just eight months to turn a trainee fresh out of school into a nurse ready to care for the most gravely ill patients at one of the nation’s leading hospitals.

The coverage on Boston.com also includes access, from the same article pages, to photo galleries with audio voice-over.