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2018 | Biography
A moving, lyrical, beautifully-written portrait of a nurse and the lives she has touched
Christie Watson spent twenty years as a nurse, and in this intimate, poignant, and remarkably powerful book, she opens the doors of the hospital and shares its secrets. She takes us by her side down hospital corridors to visit the wards and meet her most unforgettable patients.
In the neonatal unit, premature babies fight for their lives, hovering at the very edge of survival, like tiny Emmanuel, wrapped up in a sandwich bag. On the cancer wards, the nurses administer chemotherapy and, long after the medicine stops working, something more important–which Watson learns to recognize when her own father is dying of cancer. In the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, the nurses wash the hair of a little girl to remove the smell of smoke from the house fire. The emergency room is overcrowded as ever, with waves of alcohol and drug addicted patients as well as patients like Betty, a widow suffering chest pain, frail and alone. And the stories of the geriatric ward–Gladys and older patients like her–show the plight of the most vulnerable members of our society.
Through the smallest of actions, nursing provides vital care and kindness. All of us will experience illness in our lifetime, and we will all depend on the support and dignity that nurses offer us; yet the women and men who form the vanguard of our health care remain unsung. In this age of fear, hate, and division, Christie Watson has written a book that reminds us of all that we share, and of the urgency of compassion.
Christie Watson
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| Published by | Tim Duggan Books |
| Edition | Unknown |
| ISBN | 9781524761639 |
| Language | N/A |
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AJaneClark (3975 KP) rated
Oct 26, 2020
Unlike many nursing books, Christie retold her time as a nurse, including some of the research and theory behind being a nurse, in a way that people with no knowledge of the subject would be able to understand. I found it to be cleverly put together, however there were some slow moments, disinteresting moments, and times I felt I didn't agree with what she was saying or doing.
Overall it expressed the nurse's commitment to her job and patients, portrayed her humanity and explored the depth of the mental, physical and emotional pressures that she managed, along with being a young person, a partner and a mother.
