The shift : one nurse, twelve hours, four patients' lives / Theresa Brown.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2015Edition: First editionDescription: 256 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781616203207
- 161620320X
- Intensive care nursing -- Pennsylvania -- Personal narratives
- Intensive care nursing -- Pennsylvania -- Popular works
- Nurses -- Pennsylvania -- Personal narratives
- Nurses -- Pennsylvania -- Popular works
- Intensive care units -- Pennsylvania -- Personal narratives
- Intensive care units -- Pennsylvania -- Popular works
- Interprofessional relations -- Pennsylvania -- Personal narratives
- Interprofessional relations -- Pennsylvania -- Popular works
- Nurse and patient -- Pennsylvania -- Personal narratives
- Nurse and patient -- Pennsylvania -- Popular works
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"An engrossing human drama . . . The Shift is one nurse's story, but it contains elements of every nurse's experience." --The Wall Street Journal
Practicing nurse and New York Times columnist Theresa Brown invites us to experience not just a day in the life of a nurse but all the life that happens in just one day on a busy teaching hospital's cancer ward. In the span of twelve hours, lives can be lost, life-altering treatment decisions made, and dreams fulfilled or irrevocably stolen. Unfolding in real time--under the watchful eyes of this dedicated professional and insightful chronicler of events-- The Shift gives an unprecedented view into the individual struggles as well as the larger truths about medicine in this country. By shift's end, we have witnessed something profound about hope and humanity.
7:03 am -- Report -- Hitting the floor -- Worries -- Surgical team C -- Paperwork -- No time for lunch -- Duo damsel -- Judgment calls -- Faith -- Revolving door -- End of shift.
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.