Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between Paperback - 2011 - 1st Edition
by Theresa Brown
From the rear cover
"Doctors heal, or try to, but as nurses we step into the breach, figure out what needs to be done for any given patient today, on this shift, and then, with love and exasperation, do it as best as we can."--from Critical Care
"At my job, people die," writes Theresa Brown, capturing both the burden and the singular importance of her profession. Brown, a former English professor at Tufts University, chronicles here her first year as an R.N. in medical oncology. As she does so, Brown illuminates the unique role of nurses in health care, giving us a deeply moving portrait of the day-to-day work nurses do: caring for the person who is ill, not just the illness itself.
Critical Care takes us with Brown as she struggles to tend to her patients' needs, both physical (the rigors of chemotherapy) and emotional (their late-night fears). Along the way, we see the work nurses do to fight for their patients' dignity, in spite of punishing treatments and an often uncaring hospital bureaucracy. We also see how a twelve-hour day of caring for the seriously ill gives Brown herself a deeper appreciation of what it means to be alive. Ultimately, this is a book about embracing life, whether in times of sickness or health.
As she takes us into the place where patients and nurses meet, Brown shows us the power of human connection in the face of mortality. She does so with a keen sense of humor and remarkable powers of observation, making Critical Care a powerful contribution to the literature of medicine.
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- Title Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between
- Author Theresa Brown
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperOne, New York
- Date 2011-05-01
- Features Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780061791543 / 0061791547
- Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.6 in (20.07 x 13.46 x 1.52 cm)
- Reading level 1080
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Themes
- Topical: Death/Dying
- Library of Congress subjects Nurse's Role, Intensive care nursing
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009046576
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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