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The Chronicles of a Critical Care Nurse

Author : Pamela Karakusis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578653198
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (531 download)

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Download or read book The Chronicles of a Critical Care Nurse written by Pamela Karakusis and published by . This book was released on 2020-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trauma, tragedy, and illness are all part of life. Whether we like to admit it or not, we are affected deeply by these experiences. Throughout my years as a nurse in the intensive care unit at a level one trauma center, I've had an up-close-and-personal view of so many people's worst moments. Over time, I realized that being the constant caregiver was taking an emotional toll on me. Helping people has always been my passion, and therefore I was desperate to find solutions to care for myself so that I could continue caring for others well. I needed to unburden my mind and remove the weight from my soul. As a result, I began a journal, including written words and artistic expressions about my own experiences caring for the critically ill. My journey to find inner peace set in motion a chain of events that began with unburdening myself, but also shed light on the fact that resources for the mental well-being of nurses in general is lacking. Therefore, I decided to write this book, honoring nurses for what they go through every day. Hopefully, the content will serve to stimulate some crucial conversations about overall mental health in the nursing profession.

Tending Lives

Author : Echo Heron
Publisher : Ivy Books
ISBN 13 : 0804118213
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Tending Lives written by Echo Heron and published by Ivy Books. This book was released on 1999-01-30 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical-care nurse in coronary and emergency medicine for eighteen years, Echo Heron has seen and heard it all. Here she recounts narratives of real-life medical dramas experienced by nurses across the country, sharing with us the inspiring, the tragic, and the outrageously funny: a penitentiary nurse who wasresponsible for orchestrating a murderer's execution; a stroke victim who rose out of his depression when his nurses began telling him jokes; and, perhaps the most riveting testimony, moment-by-moment memories of several nurses who served in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing. Filled with both tears and laughter and charged with the issues that afflict nursing care today, TENDING LIVES is a gripping, moving, inspiring book, a fitting tribute to a noble profession.

Condition Critical

Author : Echo Heron
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781938439964
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book Condition Critical written by Echo Heron and published by . This book was released on 2024-08-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONDITON CRITICAL: The Story of a Nurse (Revised 2024) is the compelling sequel to the New York Times bestselling INTENSIVE CARE: The Story of a Nurse.With her trademark wit and razor-sharp sensibilities, critical care nurse Echo Heron gives readers an intimate view into the emotional and often shocking world behind the closed doors of a hospital.Sidestepping antiquated bureaucratic rules, Heron chronicles her second decade in the battlefields of critical care detailing her patients' often heartbreaking (and sometimes humorous) stories in ways that will stay entrenched in the reader's memory. As the struggle to protect and care for her patients grows more stressful due to increasing budget cuts and understaffing, Heron must face the toll it is taking on her own life.Whether dealing with the schizophrenic Death Row inmate who must recover in time for his scheduled execution, coping with haunted hospital rooms or tackling the daily Emergency Room fare of freak accidents, overdoses, suicides, and the myriad victims of man's brutal inhumanity to man, CONDITION CRITICAL is an unforgettable fast paced read you won't want to miss.

Intensive Care: The Story of a Nurse

Author : Echo Heron
Publisher : Ivy Books
ISBN 13 : 0804102511
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Intensive Care: The Story of a Nurse written by Echo Heron and published by Ivy Books. This book was released on 1988-05-12 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a nurse's story unlike any other, because Echo Heron is a very special nurse. Dedicated to healing and helping in the harshest environments, she spent ten years in emergency rooms and intensive care units. Her story is unique, penetrating, and unforgettable. Her story is real. "Compelling reading." NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Ordered to Care

Author : Susan M. Reverby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521335652
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Ordered to Care written by Susan M. Reverby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-08-28 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging study of the dilemmas faced by American nursing, which examines the ideology, practice, and efforts at reform of both trained and untrained nurses in the years between 1850 and 1945. Ordered to Care provides an overall history of nursing's development and places that growth within the context of topical questions raised by women's history and the social history of health care. Building upon extensive use of primary and quantitative data, the author creates a collective portrait of nursing, from the work of the individual nurse to the political efforts of its organizations. Dr Reverby contends that nursing's contemporary difficulties are caused by its historical obligation to care in a society that refuses to value caring. She examines the historical consequences of this critical dilemma and concludes with a discussion of why nursing will have to move beyond its obligation to care, and what the implications of this change would be for all of us.

Worth a Dozen Men

Author : Libra Rose Hilde
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813932122
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Worth a Dozen Men written by Libra Rose Hilde and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the role female nurses in the South played during the Civil War in raising army and civilian morale and reducing mortality rates.

The Shift

Author : Theresa Brown
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616206020
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book The Shift written by Theresa Brown and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Five Days at Memorial

Author : Sheri Fink
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307718972
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Five Days at Memorial written by Sheri Fink and published by Crown. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The award-winning book that inspired an Apple Original series from Apple TV+ • A landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina—and the suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice—from a Pulitzer Prize–winning physician and reporter “An amazing tale, as inexorable as a Greek tragedy and as gripping as a whodunit.”—Dallas Morning News After Hurricane Katrina struck and power failed, amid rising floodwaters and heat, exhausted staff at Memorial Medical Center designated certain patients last for rescue. Months later, a doctor and two nurses were arrested and accused of injecting some of those patients with life-ending drugs. Five Days at Memorial, the culmination of six years of reporting by Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink, unspools the mystery, bringing us inside a hospital fighting for its life and into the most charged questions in health care: which patients should be prioritized, and can health care professionals ever be excused for hastening death? Transforming our understanding of human nature in crisis, Five Days at Memorial exposes the hidden dilemmas of end-of-life care and reveals how ill-prepared we are for large-scale disasters—and how we can do better. ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times, Entertainment Weekly, Christian Science Monitor, Kansas City Star WINNER: National Book Critics Circle Award, J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Ridenhour Book Prize, American Medical Writers Association Medical Book Award, National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Award

Seven Signs of Life

Author : Aoife Abbey
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473555833
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Seven Signs of Life written by Aoife Abbey and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Heartfelt, honest, illuminating and wise' Julia Samuel, author of This Too Shall Pass. Perfect for fans of This Is Going to Hurt. Grief. Anger. Joy. Fear. Distraction. Disgust. Hope. All emotions we expect to encounter over our lifetime. But what if this was every day? And what if your ability to manage them was the difference between life and death? For Aoife Abbey, a doctor in intensive care, these experiences are part of the job - from grief when you make a potentially fatal mistake to joy when the ward unexpectedly breaks into song. Seven Signs of Life is Abbey's extraordinary account of what it means to be alive and how it feels to care for a living. An insightful, tender and inspiring memoir that explores the reality of life on the NHS front line. 'Brilliant, compelling... A hugely life-affirming book' Mail on Sunday

Change Leadership in Nursing

Author : Mairead Hickey
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0826108377
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Change Leadership in Nursing written by Mairead Hickey and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011-08-17 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Print+CourseSmart

Inspired Nurse

Author : Rich Bluni
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781622180042
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Inspired Nurse written by Rich Bluni and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The same qualities that make nursing so deeply rewarding can also make it a challenge, over time, to sustain your energy and passion. Learn to maintain and recapture those elusive qualities.

Critical Care Nursing of the Elderly

Author : Terry T. Fulmer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780826170507
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Critical Care Nursing of the Elderly written by Terry T. Fulmer and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six years (1984-1990) of the journal, with the quick and excellent search capabilities afforded by DiscPassage, the Creative Multimedia Corporation's software for full word, phrase, wildcard, and boolean text search, browsing, and traditional table of contents. The journal features review articles

You Can Stop Humming Now

Author : Daniela Lamas
Publisher : Little, Brown Spark
ISBN 13 : 0316393185
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book You Can Stop Humming Now written by Daniela Lamas and published by Little, Brown Spark. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers of Atul Gawande and Jerome Groopman, a book of beautifully crafted stories about what life is like for patients kept alive by modern medical technology. Modern medicine is a world that glimmers with new technology and cutting-edge research. To the public eye, medical stories often begin with sirens and flashing lights and culminate in survival or death. But these are only the most visible narratives. As a critical care doctor treating people at their sickest, Daniela Lamas is fascinated by a different story: what comes after for those whose lives are extended by days, months, or years as a result of our treatments and technologies? You Can Stop Humming Now, Lamas explores the complex answers to this question through intimate accounts of patients and their families. A grandfather whose failing heart has been replaced by a battery-operated pump; a salesman who found himself a kidney donor on social media; a college student who survived a near fatal overdose and returned home, alive but not the same; and a young woman navigating an adulthood she never thought she'd live to see -- these moving narratives paint a detailed picture of the fragile border between sickness and health. Riveting, gorgeously told, and deeply personal, You Can Stop Humming Now is a compassionate, uncompromising look at the choices and realities that many of us, and our families, may one day face. "Gripping, soaring, inspiring."-Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal

Winn Chronicles

Author : Robert G. Oliver
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1469148277
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (691 download)

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Download or read book Winn Chronicles written by Robert G. Oliver and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-01-13 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Knapsack Full of Dreams

Author : Cathy Crowe
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525534521
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book A Knapsack Full of Dreams written by Cathy Crowe and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My nurse hands once did more useful things. They immunized the fat, healthy thighs of infants, they carefully measured cardiac drugs to administer to young heart patients, they bathed both the elderly lady after her surgery and the 24-year-old Italian-Canadian woman after her death. My hands once mixed linseed poultices, rubbed twenty backs a night before darkness fell and, by flashlight, checked intravenous drips, catheters, and other tubing. They made hot milk in the middle of the night and then, later at home, soothed a child with too-frequent earaches. These are good uses for hands. Now they carry a black bag into streets, alleyways, and ravines. The bandages I carry no longer cover the wounds of my patients. My vitamins will not prevent the white plague of tuberculosis from taking another victim. The granola bars I carry cannot begin to feed the hunger I meet. I cannot even help someone achieve one peaceful night of safety and sleep. Only roofs will do that. And I am not a carpenter." There is no right to shelter or housing in Canada. Over the past three decades, a series of federal governments cut funding for social programs and eliminated our national housing program, leaving hundreds of thousands of people victim to the tsunami of homelessness that was declared a national disaster twenty years ago. No one knows this reality better than Cathy Crowe, who witnessed the explosion of homelessness across Canada while working as a Street Nurse. This fallout was accompanied by great suffering, inhumane shelter conditions, new disease outbreaks, and clusters of homeless deaths. It is a reality that spans across the entire country. In A Knapsack Full of Dreams, Cathy Crowe details her lifelong commitment as a nurse and social justice activist—particularly her thirty years as a Street Nurse—with passion, grace, and fortitude. Presented through the lens of someone dedicated to the power and beauty of film, A Knapsack Full of Dreams will move you, then inspire you to act.

Undercover Epicenter Nurse

Author : Erin Marie Olszewski
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1510763678
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Undercover Epicenter Nurse written by Erin Marie Olszewski and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Undercover Epicenter Nurse blows the lid off the COVID-19 pandemic. What would you do if you discovered that the media and the government were lying to us all? And that hundreds, maybe thousands of people were dying because of it? Army combat veteran and registered nurse Erin Olszewski’s most deeply held values were put to the test when she arrived as a travel nurse at Elmhurst Hospital in the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. After serving in Iraq, she was back on the front lines—and this time, she found, the situation was even worse. Rooms were filthy, nurses were lax with sanitation measures, and hospital-acquired cases of COVID-19 were spreading like wildfire. Worse, people who had tested negative multiple times for COVID-19 were being labeled as COVID-confirmed and put on COVID-only floors. Put on ventilators and drugged up with sedatives, these patients quickly deteriorated—even though they did not have coronavirus when they checked in. Doctors-in-training were refusing to perform CPR—and banning nurses from doing it—on dying patients whose families had not consented to “Do Not Resuscitate” orders. Erin wasn’t about to stand by and let her patients keep dying on her watch, but she knew that if she told the truth, people wouldn’t believe her. It was just too shocking. Willing to go to battle for her patients, Erin made the decision to go deep undercover, recording conversations with other nurses, videos of malpractice, and more. She began to share what she found on social media. Unsurprisingly, she was fired for it. Now, Erin is standing up to tell the whole horrifying story of what happened inside Elmhurst Hospital to demand justice for those who fell victim to the hospital’s greed. Not only must the staff be held accountable for their unethical actions; but also, this kind of corruption must be destroyed so that future Americans are not put at risks. The deaths have to end, and Erin won’t rest until the bad actors are exposed. Undercover Epicenter Nurse: How Fraud, Negligence, and Greed Led to Unnecessary Deaths at Elmhurst Hospital is a shocking and infuriating inside exposé of the American healthcare system gone wrong. At the same time, it’s the story of a woman who traveled from the small-town streets of Wisconsin, to the battlefields of Iraq, to the mean streets of Queens, on a quest to help fight for her country. With this book, the real battle has begun.

Critical Care Transport

Author : American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS),
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0763762725
Total Pages : 1057 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (637 download)

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Download or read book Critical Care Transport written by American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2009-11-09 with total page 1057 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the new gold standard in critical care transport training. Published in conjunction with the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) and the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), Critical Care Transport offers cutting edge content relevant to any healthcare provider training in critical care transport. Like no other textbook in this market, Critical Care Transport thoroughly prepares medical professionals to function as competent members of a critical care team by covering the material that everyone—paramedics, nurses, physicians, and specialty crew—needs to know to operate effectively in the prehospital critical care environment. This book meets the curricula of major critical care training programs, including University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). It covers both ground and flight transport, and meets the objectives of critical care transport certification exams such as the Certified Flight Paramedic (FP-C) exam administered by the Board for Critical Care Transport Paramedic Certification. Content includes information specific to prehospital critical care transport, such as flight physiology, lab analysis, hemodynamic monitoring, and specialized devices such as the intra-aortic balloon pump. Standard topics such as airway management, trauma, and pharmacology are covered in the context of critical care. Chapters have been authored by leading critical care professionals across the country and represent the most current, state-of-the-art information on management of critical care patients.