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Author Brown, Theresa, author

Title The shift : one nurse, twelve hours, four patients' lives / Theresa Brown
Edition First edition
Published Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2015

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 MELB  616.028 Bro/Son  AVAILABLE
Description 256 pages ; 22 cm
Contents 7:03 am -- Report -- Hitting the floor -- Worries -- Surgical team C -- Paperwork -- No time for lunch -- Duo damsel -- Judgment calls -- Faith -- Revolving door -- End of shift
Summary Practicing nurse and New York Times columnist Theresa Brown invites readers to experience not just a day in the life of a nurse but all the life that happens in just one day on a hospital cancer ward. In her skilled hands, as both a dedicated nurse and an insightful chronicler of events, we are given an unprecedented view into the individual struggles as well as the larger truths about medicine in this country, and by the end of the shift, we have witnessed something profound about hope and healing and humanity
Subject Intensive care nursing -- Pennsylvania -- Personal narratives.
Intensive care nursing -- Pennsylvania -- Popular works.
Nurses -- Pennsylvania -- Personal narratives.
Nurses -- Pennsylvania -- Popular works.
Intensive care units -- Pennsylvania -- Personal narratives.
Intensive care units -- Pennsylvania -- Popular works.
Interprofessional relations -- Pennsylvania -- Personal narratives.
Interprofessional relations -- Pennsylvania -- Popular works.
Nurse and patient -- Pennsylvania -- Personal narratives.
Nurse and patient -- Pennsylvania -- Popular works.
Critical Care Nursing.
Nursing Staff, Hospital.
Intensive Care Units.
Interprofessional Relations.
Nurse-Patient Relations.
SUBJECT Pennsylvania. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D010414
Genre/Form Personal Narrative.
Popular Work.
Personal narratives.
Personal narratives.
Popular works.
LC no. 2015010992
ISBN 9781616203207 (hardcover)
161620320X (hardcover)