How do Nurses really feel about their work? Do they become distant
and uninvolved with pain and suffering to protect themselves from
self-destruction over the years? Do they genuinely care what
happens to their patients or is it merely a calloused race to the
finish line of quitting time each shift? Any reader who has laid in
a hospital bed or had a loved one hospitalized will be able to
immediately relate to this book and it's lovingly detailed
descriptions of the events unfolding in the lives of both patients
and their primary caregivers, the Nursing staff. There are
surprises; this is not a pink, warm fuzzy diary but a visceral
accounting of the true struggle to maintain humanity and compassion
in an environment that runs the risk of becoming immune to it's own
drama. The pieces are delivered in the format of often graphic
prose and poetry and forward the unexpected combination of pathos
and hope. Expect to need tissues as a reading aid. This is a book
not only for the lay public but for the health care professions as
well; it normalizes the extraordinary experiences of those whose
work it is to sustain and save life, whose charge is to heal and to
help. There is reassurance in each line of these pages and it
should be required reading for all nursing students and health care
professionals in addition to being a primer for all those whose
life leads them through illness, either in a hospital bed or beside
it.
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