Nurse protests are occurring all over the United States. Anyone who has ever been a health worker or a patient knows that a doctor admits you to the hospital, but it's the nurses that make sure you get to go home. Now more than ever, the world needs a story that pushes for patient safety and nurse protections. Labor Pains, the story of an RN on the hero's journey, is a life-changing read that is long overdue. Nurses work hard to protect their patients; yet most nurses have no idea how to apply the same protections to their own practice and well-being. Labor Pains offers an inside peek into the political power nurses must uphold to provide patient safety that also protects the nurses themselves from burnout and bodily harm. This unique view into the battle between the front line healthcare workers set against the executives of corporate greed will resonate with nurses and patients alike.

Rita Batchley is not your ordinary RN. She is a political activist, author and speaker who happens to believe that nurses hold the key to real healthcare reform. Since graduating from nursing school over 25 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 activism. Rita decided to write a book about a nurse hero, Paige O'Neill, because there was little, in terms of media, that inspires people to become involved in nursing politics. After 15 years of volunteering for the California Nurses Association and National Nurses United to pass nurse ratio laws that protect nurses and patients alike, Rita had the idea to write "Labor Pains" and Paige O'Neill was born.