A final arc of sky
Subtitle: a memoir of critical care
By: Jennifer Culkin.
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780807072851
Subjects: Culkin, Jennifer, -- 1958-; Culkin, Jennifer, -- 1958-; Intensive care nursing -- United States -- Biography; Aviation nursing -- United States -- Biography; Nurses -- Personal Narratives; Air Ambulances -- Personal Narratives; Critical Care -- Personal Narratives
Genres: Biography.; Personal Narratives.
Description: A critical-care and emergency nurse shares dramatic case stories ranging from her attendance of accident victims in a helicopter to her NICU work helping to save premature infants, in a memoir that is interspersed with the writer's thoughts about how her career extends into her personal and family relationships.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The shadow we cast; title: A hold on the earth; title: Omens; title: Swimming in the dark; title: Some inner planet; title: A little taste for the edge; title: A few beats of black wing; title: Longview; title: New worlds, like fractals; title: Theories of the universe; title: Night vision; title: Out there in the deep.