The ICU nurse came by, checked and recorded the monitor readings and left.

From the corridor, we used the house phone to call into the ICU nurses' station.

"He's been doing fine up here," an ICU nurse said.

George gave Thomas another of his little taps and walked away, waving good-bye to the ICU nurses.

When the ICU nurse had moved on to other patients in the ward, he'd managed to sneak a glance at!

The nurse at the ICU nurses' station was curt.

I thought the nurse might not like it, but this ICU nurse was more compassionate and understanding.

"Then I'll leave word with the ICU nurses that if you call they're free to give you an update on his condition."

One of the ICU nurses carried it out.

One of the ICU nurses injected the bicarbonate; another prepared the epinephrine.