| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 218 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Advance Praise -- Other Books Published By Sigma Theta Tau International -- Dedication and About the Author -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Blythe Spirit in the Medical Intensive Care Unit -- Chapter 2 -- The Most Beautiful Girl in the World -- Chapter 3 -- The Midnight Visitor -- Chapter 4 -- The Difficulty with Letting Go -- Chapter 5 -- Dying for Love -- Chapter 6 -- The Parable of the Oak Trees -- Chapter 7 -- The Code in the Lobby Restroom -- Chapter 8 -- Lessons in Powerlessness -- Chapter 9 -- And Now It's Time For You To Stop Taking Yourself So Seriously -- Chapter 10 -- An Old Wound Still Festering -- Chapter 11 -- Betsy and Elizabeth -- Chapter 12 -- Sleeping Beauty Awakens -- Chapter 13 -- She Who Doth Protest Too Much -- Chapter 14 -- An Unanticipated Message -- Chapter 15 -- The Reiki Queen -- Chapter 16 -- Get Behind Me, Satan -- Chapter 17 -- So Who Prays For You? -- Chapter 18 -- All Hail to the Cheif -- Chapter 19 -- The Tale of the Gypsies -- Chapter 20 -- The Red Lever -- Chapter 21 -- Requiem for the Honeymooners -- Chapter 22 -- Wedding Bells -- Chapter 23 -- Occupational Hazards -- Chapter 24 -- Pregnant with Trouble -- Chapter 25 -- Trouble in Paradise -- Chapter 26 -- Worlds Collide -- Chapter 27 -- See No Evil -- Chapter 28 -- Does Allah Punish Vanity? -- Chapter 29 -- Trying to Get to Heaven -- Chapter 30 -- This Old Man Can't Take Much More of This -- Chapter 31 -- I'd Rather Be Fishin' -- Chapter 32 -- Family Matters -- Chapter 33 -- And So It Goes -- Glossary -- Discussion Questions |
| Summary |
This book, written in the narrative nonfiction tradition, follows the protagonist as she goes from one patient to the next, prompted by her pager, in the research cancer hospital in which she works. The 32 patients run the gamut from the expected elderly patients receiving death with dignity to newly diagnosed patients in denial. The unexpected comes into play with Gypsies, Native American healers, Jesus-over-the shoulder, and a widow's black-cloud exorcism. All this and their families too! Rancour has an honest, humane, funny, and poetic style. She sweeps you along with her compassion, her wit, and her unerring ability to see into the truth of the matter. This book is for anyone who has an interest in what goes on in the patient rooms, hallways, stairwells, and elevators of a cancer hospital. You won't be able to put it down |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cancer -- Nursing.
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Nurse and patient.
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Nursing -- Psychological aspects.
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Nurse-Patient Relations
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Nurses -- psychology
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Oncology Nursing
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MEDICAL -- Nursing -- Oncology & Cancer.
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Cancer -- Nursing.
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Nurse and patient.
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Nursing -- Psychological aspects.
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| Genre/Form |
Personal narratives.
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Personal narratives.
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Récits personnels.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sigma Theta Tau International.
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| ISBN |
9781435664012 |
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1435664019 |
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1930538723 |
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9781930538726 |
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