The shift
Subtitle: one nurse, twelve hours, four patients' lives
By: Theresa Brown
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781616203207
Subjects: Nurse and patient; Intensive care nursing; Nurses; Intensive care units; Personal narratives; Popular works; Interprofessional relations
Description: Practicing nurse and New York Times columnist Theresa Brown invites readers to experience not just a day in the life of a nurse but all the life that happens in just one day on a hospital cancer ward. In her skilled hands, as both a dedicated nurse and an insightful chronicler of events, we are given an unprecedented view into the individual struggles as well as the larger truths about medicine in this country, and by the end of the shift, we have witnessed something profound about hope and healing and humanity.
Table of contents: title: 7:03 am; title: Report; title: Hitting the floor; title: Worries; title: Surgical team C; title: Paperwork; title: No time for lunch; title: Duo damsel; title: Judgment calls; title: Faith; title: Revolving door; title: End of shift.