"When a cancer nurse becomes a cancer patient, she has to confront the most critical, terrified, sometimes furious patient she's ever encountered: herself. A frank look at struggling with illness while navigating the health care maze"--
"Deeply moving."--Damon Tweedy, New York Times bestselling author of Black Man in a White Coat New York Times bestselling author Theresa Brown tells a poignant, powerful, and intensely personal story about breast cancer. She brings us along with her from the mammogram that would…
"When a cancer nurse becomes a cancer patient, she has to confront the most critical, terrified, sometimes furious patient she's ever encountered: herself. A frank look at struggling with illness while navigating the health care maze."-- Despite training and years of experience…
Collects the stories of nurses at all stages of their careers as they discuss their experiences and their profession.
This volume collects the stories of nurses at all stages of their careers: passionate, terrified, sometimes simply exhausted, as they discuss their experiences and the nursing profession, one of the most challenging and underappreciated jobs in the world. Often, nursing demands …
"This collection of true narratives reflects the dynamism and diversity of nurses, who provide the first vital line of patient care. Here, nurses remember their first "sticks," first births, and first deaths, and reflect on what gets them though long, demanding shifts, and keeps…
"The Call of Nursing is not your typical book about nurses. In its twenty-three candid self-portraits, it captures an inside view of a profession that hides in plain sight, taking us behind the curtain of silence that often hangs between us--the patients who rely on the health c…
Twenty-three skilled, experienced nurses reveal, through candid self-portraits, an inside view of a profession that hides in plain sight.