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Nurses -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Care of the sick.
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Watson, Christie.
Watson, Christie.
Nurses -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Nursing -- Great Britain.
Care of the sick.
Kindness.
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The language of kindness : a nurse's stories of life, death and hope / Christie Watson.
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Watson, Christie.
Doubleday Canada, 2018.
Call #:
610
.73092
W337L
Subjects
Watson, Christie.
Nurses -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Nursing -- Great Britain.
Care of the sick.
Kindness.
ISBN:
9780385690263 (hc.)
Description:
336 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"A moving, lyrical, beautifully written portrait of a nurse and the lives she has touched. Christie Watson spent twenty years working as a nurse, and in this intimate, poignant and remarkably powerful book, she opens the doors of the hospital and shares its secrets. She takes us by her side down hospital corridors to visit the wards and the patients who are unforgettable: premature babies as they fight for their lives in the neonatal unit, hovering at the very edge of survival, like tiny Emmanuel wrapped up in a sandwich bag. In the cancer wards, the nurses administer chemotherapy and, long after the medicine stops working, something more important--which Watson recognizes when her own father is dying of cancer. The mental health unit sees Derek, who suffers a schizophrenic attempt to take his life. On the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Tommy loses his legs following meningitis, as the nurses wash the hair of a little girl to remove the smell of smoke from a house fire. The emergency room is overcrowded as ever, with waves of alcohol and drug addicted patients, as well as patients like Betty, suffering chest pain, frail and alone. The stories of the geriatric ward--Gladys and older patients like her--show the plight of the most vulnerable members of our society. In the smallest of actions, the most undervalued of professions provides the most vital care and kindness. All of us will touch illness in our lifetime, and we will all depend upon the support and dignity that nurses offer us in our most vulnerable moments; yet these women and men who form the vanguard of our health service remain largely behind the scenes and publicly unsung. Through the stories in this book comes an understanding of what we must value most dearly--the urgency of care and compassion..."--From publisher.
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