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Item specifics
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- Binding
- Hardcover
- Product Group
- Book
- Book Title
- The Shift
- Weight
- 0 lbs
- IsTextBook
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- ISBN
- 9781616203207
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
ISBN-10
161620320X
ISBN-13
9781616203207
eBay Product ID (ePID)
24038513508
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Shift : One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives
Publication Year
2015
Subject
Nursing / Nurse & Patient, Health Care Delivery, Critical Care, Medical, Nursing / Critical & Intensive Care
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Biography & Autobiography, Medical
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
12.8 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2015-010992
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Compelling and compassionate human drama. If you want to understand how modern medicine ticks, fasten your seat belt and spend a day in the hospital with Theresa Brown on The Shift ." -- Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, author of What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine "Nursing needs more participant/observers like Theresa Brown who can give such eloquent voice to a profession long overshadowed by medicine but no less essential to the care of patients." -- Suzanne Gordon, author of Beyond the Checklist "Theresa Brown's exacting and riveting way of telling a story evokes an empathy that is overwhelming. The ability to capture the joy when an individual survives cancer and the sorrow when they do not is a talent that Theresa has perfected. A truly memorable read." -- Bobbie Berkowitz, PhD, RN, Dean and Professor, Columbia University School of Nursing " The Shift captures the juxtaposition of pragmatism and idealism, compassion and clinical objectivity, humor and heartache that exist simultaneously in the life of clinical nurses everywhere." -- Barbara L. Summers, Nursing Department Chair, MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas "Written from the perspective of an immensely talented, insightful nurse, The Shift is extremely moving and inspiring. Brown makes me so proud to be a nurse." -- Claire M. Fagin, PhD, RN, Dean Emerita, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, "Compelling and compassionate human drama. If you want to understand how modern medicine ticks, fasten your seat belt and spend a day in the hospital with Theresa Brown on The Shift ." -- Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, author of What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine "Written from the perspective of an immensely talented, insightful nurse, The Shift is extremely moving and inspiring. Brown makes me so proud to be a nurse." -- Claire M. Fagin, PhD, RN, Dean Emerita, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing "Theresa Brown's exacting and riveting way of telling a story evokes an empathy that is overwhelming. The ability to capture the joy when an individual survives cancer and the sorrow when they do not is a talent that Brown has perfected. A truly memorable read." -- Bobbie Berkowitz, PhD, RN, Dean and Professor, Columbia University School of Nursing, "Compelling and compassionate human drama. If you want to understand how modern medicine ticks, fasten your seat belt and spend a day in the hospital with Theresa Brown on The Shift ." -- Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, author of What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine " The Shift is the ultimate fly-on-the-wall experience. Theresa Brown has succeeded in serving up a thoroughly engrossing view of the everyday in an American hospital. I got so caught up in her stories that I was late for my shift at the hospital." -- Dr. Pauline W. Chen, national bestselling author of Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality "Nursing needs more participant/observers like Theresa Brown who can give such eloquent voice to a profession long overshadowed by medicine but no less essential to the care of patients." -- Suzanne Gordon, author of Beyond the Checklist "Theresa Brown's exacting and riveting way of telling a story evokes an empathy that is overwhelming. The ability to capture the joy when an individual survives cancer and the sorrow when they do not is a talent that Theresa has perfected. A truly memorable read." -- Bobbie Berkowitz, PhD, RN, Dean and Professor, Columbia University School of Nursing " The Shift captures the juxtaposition of pragmatism and idealism, compassion and clinical objectivity, humor and heartache that exist simultaneously in the life of clinical nurses everywhere." -- Barbara L. Summers, Nursing Department Chair, MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas "Written from the perspective of an immensely talented, insightful nurse, The Shift is extremely moving and inspiring. Brown makes me so proud to be a nurse." -- Claire M. Fagin, PhD, RN, Dean Emerita, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, "Compelling and compassionate human drama. If you want to understand how modern medicine ticks, fasten your seat belt and spend a day in the hospital with Theresa Brown on The Shift ." -- Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, author of What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine "Written from the perspective of an immensely talented, insightful nurse, The Shift is extremely moving and inspiring. Brown makes me so proud to be a nurse." -- Claire M. Fagin, PhD, RN, Dean Emerita, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing "Theresa Brown's exacting and riveting way of telling a story evokes an empathy that is overwhelming. The ability to capture the joy when an individual survives cancer and the sorrow when they do not is a talent that Theresa has perfected. A truly memorable read." -- Bobbie Berkowitz, PhD, RN, Dean and Professor, Columbia University School of Nursing "Nursing needs more participant/observers like Theresa Brown who can give such eloquent voice to a profession long overshadowed by medicine but no less essential to the care of patients."-- Suzanne Gordon, author of Beyond the Checklist. " The Shift captures the juxtaposition of pragmatism and idealism, compassion and clinical objectivity, humor and heartache that exist simultaneously in the life of clinical nurses everywhere."-- Barbara L. Summers, Nursing Department Chair, MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas " The Shift is the ultimate fly-on-the-wall experience. Theresa Brown has succeeded in serving up a thoroughly engrossing view of the everyday in an American hospital. I got so caught up in her stories that I was late for my shift at the hospital." -- Dr. Pauline W. Chen, author of Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality "Having been a patient on the transplant floor, I am filled with awe and gratitude for the work that the nurses like Theresa Brown do every day. She captures perfectly their central role in any patient's life!" -- Susan M. Love, M.D., Chief Visionary Officer, Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation and author of Dr Susan Love's Breast Book
Dewey Decimal
616.02/8
Table Of Content
CONTENTS Prologue: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place Chapter 1: 7:03 a.m. Chapter 2: Report Chapter 3: Hitting the Floor Chapter 4: Worries Chapter 5: Surgical Team C Chapter 6: Paperwork Chapter 7: No Time for Lunch Chapter 8: Duo Damsel Chapter 9: Judgment Calls Chapter 10: Faith Chapter 11: Revolving Door Chapter 12: End of Shift Afterword: Knowing the Future Acknowledgments
Synopsis
"An engrossing human drama . . . The Shift is one nurse's story, but it contains elements of every nurse's experience." --The Wall Street Journal 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., Practicing nurse and New York Times columnist Theresa Brown invites us to experience a day in the life of a nurse working on a hospital's busy cancer ward. In the span of twelve hours, patients' lives can be lost, life-altering medical treatment decisions made, and dreams fulfilled or irrevocably stolen. Brown gives an unprecedented view into individual struggles as well as larger truths about medicine in this country, hope, healing, and humanity., In a book as eye-opening as it is riveting, 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 hospital's cancer ward. In the span of twelve hours, lives can be lost, life-altering medical treatment decisions made, and dreams fulfilled or irrevocably stolen. In Brown's 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 shift's end, we have witnessed something profound about hope and healing and humanity. Every day, Theresa Brown holds patients' lives in her hands. On this day there are four. There is Mr. Hampton, a patient with lymphoma to whom Brown is charged with administering a powerful drug that could cure him--or kill him; Sheila, who may have been dangerously misdiagnosed; Candace, a returning patient who arrives (perhaps advisedly) with her own disinfectant wipes, cleansing rituals, and demands; and Dorothy, who after six weeks in the hospital may finally go home. Prioritizing and ministering to their needs takes the kind of skill, sensitivity, and, yes, humor that enable a nurse to be a patient's most ardent advocate in a medical system marked by heartbreaking dysfunction as well as miraculous success.
LC Classification Number
RT120.I5
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