Critical Care
A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · April 26, 2011
“Among all the recent books on medicine, Critical Care stands alone.“ — Pauline Chen, author of Final Exam “A must read for anyone who wants to understand healthcare.
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- Who it’s for
- A first-year oncology nurse’s memoir brings bedside work alongside questions of mortality and meaning.
- Themes
- Oncology nursing, Mortality, Meaning in life
- Genres
- Lives in Medicine, Critical & ICU Nursing, Personal Memoirs
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“Among all the recent books on medicine, Critical Care stands alone.“ — Pauline Chen, author of Final Exam “A must read for anyone who wants to understand healthcare.
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Extraordinary.” — Elizabeth Cohen, MPH, CNN Senior Medical Correspondent Critical Care is the powerful and absorbing memoir of Theresa Brown—a regular contributor to the New York Times blog “Well”—about her experiences during the first year on the job as an oncology nurse; in the process, Brown sheds brilliant light on issues of mortality and meaning in our lives.
Nursing and Meaning
A first-year oncology nurse’s memoir brings bedside work alongside questions of mortality and meaning.
Come here for
- A nurse’s first year in oncology care
- Questions of mortality and meaning
Expect
- A personal memoir grounded in nursing work
- Healthcare seen through one nurse’s experience
Where it sits
| Critical & ICU Nursing | 46% |
|---|---|
| Lives in Medicine | 40% |
| Personal Memoirs | 34% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Lives in Medicine
- Women's Lives
- Personal Memoirs
- Adult Humor
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- Health Care Delivery
- End-of-Life Care
- Nursing
- Critical & ICU Nursing
- Authors
- Theresa Brown
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- April 26, 2011
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Oncology nursing · Mortality · Meaning in life
- Reading lane
- Lives in Medicine