The Book

Between Charts and Codes

A Nurse’s Journey Through the Systems and Data That Shape — and Break — Us.

The memoir and the map.

What the book is about.

Between Charts and Codes follows one nurse’s journey from bedside care into nursing informatics, revealing the hidden systems underneath healthcare: the templates, fields, workarounds, dashboards, breakdowns, and data trails that quietly shape the care nurses deliver.

For nurses

A language for the invisible burden nurses have been carrying for years.

For leaders

A view from inside the shift where policy, technology, staffing, data, and patient care collide.

For informaticists

A story about the translation work between clinical reality and the systems that document it.

For readers

A human story about purpose, transformation, and what it means to keep showing up.