The Smile Behind the Mask: Confessions of a COVID-19 Nurse
| Author | : Christina Gordon |
| Publisher | : Brentwood Publishers Group |
| Total Pages | : 60 |
| Release | : 2020-12 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781595819567 |
The Smile Behind The Mask Confessions Of A Covid 19 Nurse
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Courage Behind the Mask:
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| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2021-05-23 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780990661955 |
This book recounts a story of triumph and tragedy of the Covid-19 virus. The heroine of this book is Clara C. Blackmon. She is dubbed the "Little Miracle" by hospital staff as she overcomes fifteen day on a ventilator, twenty-nine days in ICU and a total of seventy-nine days in three different hospitals. Her profile makes the battle of the deadly virus so heroic. This African American woman,71, with a pre-existing condition, working in a senior living facility in the hot spot of Michigan created the perfect storm.Isolated in Canada, bound by border crossing, her only child Bobby makes life and death decisions with her doctors. He keeps a journal of her daily condition and multiple brushes with death.Read the uncensored stories of the health care workers and clergy who share their experiences of how they struggled to perform their duties while offering hope of survival.Witness their dedication to this mother and son throughout this ordeal. Twelve-hour shifts and lack of sleep do not intercept their one and only goal, saving this patient's life.This is a story of remarkable courage, faith and dedication from health care professionals and one tough lady.
Nurse's Notes on COVID-19
| Author | : Lorielle' Lewis |
| Publisher | : Page Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2024-03-07 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
Step into the chaotic and harrowing world of a travel nurse as she navigates the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. In Nurse's Notes on COVID-19, embark on a compelling journey that illuminates the untold stories behind the headlines. This captivating book immerses readers into the heart of the pandemic, offering an intimate and unfiltered account of the realities faced by healthcare professionals. From the initial assignment in the epicenter of New Rochelle, New York, to traversing through twenty-three additional states, this nurse's experiences shed light on the full spectrum of emotions felt during this global crisis. Through poignant encounters with fellow healthcare heroes, the devastating loss of friends, and the profound connections formed with patients and their families, Nurse's Notes on COVID-19 captures the essence of what it means to be on the front lines. It unveils the ugly truths of the virus while revealing the remarkable beauty and resilience that emerged amid the chaos. This book is not just for healthcare professionals or those directly impacted by the virus; it is for everyone seeking a deeper understanding of the human experience during this extraordinary time. Lorielle's powerful storytelling invites readers to witness the extraordinary sacrifices made by nurses and healthcare professionals and to reflect on the fragility of life and the importance of compassion in our world. Nurse's Notes on COVID-19 is an urgent call to action, urging society to address the far-reaching effects of the pandemic on individuals of all ages. It serves as a testament to the strength, dedication, and purpose-driven spirit of those who answered the call to care for the sick and dying. With its heartfelt compassion, gripping narratives, and thought-provoking insights, this book is a must-read for anyone seeking to comprehend the profound impact of COVID-19 and to honor the heroes who selflessly fought on the front lines. Prepare to be moved, inspired, and forever changed by the stories within Nurse's Notes on COVID-19.
Easing Pain on the Western Front
| Author | : Paul E. Stepansky |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 245 |
| Release | : 2019-12-12 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1476680019 |
World War I is regarded as the first modern war, driven by fearful new technologies of mechanized combat. The unprecedented carnage rapidly advanced military medicine, transforming the nature of wartime caregiving and paving the way for modern nursing practice. Drawing on firsthand accounts of American nurses, as well as their Canadian and British counterparts, historian Paul E. Stepansky describes nurses' encounters with devastating new forms of injury--wounds from high-explosive artillery shells, poison gas burns, "shell shock," the Spanish Flu. Comparing nursing practice on the western front with nursing care during the American Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and the Anglo-Boer War, the author is especially attentive to the emergent technologies employed by nurses of the Great War.
Work Won't Love You Back
| Author | : Sarah Jaffe |
| Publisher | : Bold Type Books |
| Total Pages | : 432 |
| Release | : 2021-01-26 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1568589387 |
A deeply-reported examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives. You're told that if you "do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life." Whether it's working for "exposure" and "experience," or enduring poor treatment in the name of "being part of the family," all employees are pushed to make sacrifices for the privilege of being able to do what we love. In Work Won't Love You Back, Sarah Jaffe, a preeminent voice on labor, inequality, and social movements, examines this "labor of love" myth—the idea that certain work is not really work, and therefore should be done out of passion instead of pay. Told through the lives and experiences of workers in various industries—from the unpaid intern, to the overworked teacher, to the nonprofit worker and even the professional athlete—Jaffe reveals how all of us have been tricked into buying into a new tyranny of work. As Jaffe argues, understanding the trap of the labor of love will empower us to work less and demand what our work is worth. And once freed from those binds, we can finally figure out what actually gives us joy, pleasure, and satisfaction.
Poems of Healing
| Author | : Karl Kirchwey |
| Publisher | : Everyman's Library |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 2021-03-30 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 1101908254 |
A remarkable Pocket Poets anthology of poems from around the world and across the centuries about illness and healing, both physical and spiritual. From ancient Greece and Rome up to the present moment, poets have responded with sensitivity and insight to the troubles of the human body and mind. Poems of Healing gathers a treasury of such poems, tracing the many possible journeys of physical and spiritual illness, injury, and recovery, from John Donne’s “Hymne to God My God, In My Sicknesse” and Emily Dickinson’s “The Soul has Bandaged moments” to Eavan Boland’s “Anorexic,” from W.H. Auden’s “Miss Gee” to Lucille Clifton’s “Cancer,” and from D.H. Lawrence’s “The Ship of Death” to Rafael Campo’s “Antidote” and Seamus Heaney’s “Miracle.” Here are poems from around the world, by Sappho, Milton, Baudelaire, Longfellow, Cavafy, and Omar Khayyam; by Stevens, Lowell, and Plath; by Zbigniew Herbert, Louise Bogan, Yehuda Amichai, Mark Strand, and Natalia Toledo. Messages of hope in the midst of pain—in such moving poems as Adam Zagajewski’s “Try to Praise the Mutilated World,” George Herbert’s “The Flower,” Wisława Szymborska’s “The End and the Beginning,” Gwendolyn Brooks’ “when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story” and Stevie Smith’s “Away, Melancholy”—make this the perfect gift to accompany anyone on a journey of healing. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.
The Nurses
| Author | : Alexandra Robbins |
| Publisher | : Workman Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 385 |
| Release | : 2016-04-19 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0761189254 |
A New York Times bestseller. “A funny, intimate, and often jaw-dropping account of life behind the scenes.”—People Nurses is the compelling story of the year in the life of four nurses, and the drama, unsung heroism, and unique sisterhood of nursing—one of the world’s most important professions (nurses save lives every day), and one of the world’s most dangerous, filled with violence, trauma, and PTSD. In following four nurses, Alexandra Robbins creates sympathetic characters while diving deep into their world of controlled chaos. It’s a world of hazing—“nurses eat their young.” Sex—not exactly like on TV, but surprising just the same. Drug abuse—disproportionately a problem among the best and the brightest, and a constant temptation. And bullying—by peers, by patients, by hospital bureaucrats, and especially by doctors, an epidemic described as lurking in the “shadowy, dark corners of our profession.” The result is a page-turning, shocking look at our health-care system.
Maxed Out
| Author | : Tony Green |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2019-05-08 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780578511351 |
Prison populations are on the rise. The inmate-to-guard ratio is dangerously askew. The recidivism rate is skyrocketing. Criminal courts are overwhelmed. Jails are overcrowded. The burden on the taxpayers is increasing. Americans made up of members of the Chamber of Commerce, social and economic leaders, churches, educators, members of law enforcement are some of those forming organized advocacy groups, which are growing in their size and support. They are demanding criminal justice reform. Governors and lawmakers are being urged to make significant changes, but they are hesitant-moving at a snail's pace. What's feeding this frenzy and how it relates to you, the reader will be quickly revealed. What the criminal justice system [and society] is doing does not work! This book is an eye-opening indictment against the criminal justice system, the department of corrections, and lawmakers. It vividly details the long-term effects crime [especially old felony convictions] have on offenders, their families, public safety, our communities and the economy-all of which are astounding. If you find yourself unsympathetic, I strongly encourage you to begin reading with a pragmatic understanding that society will ultimately be responsible to offenders through a comprehensive corrections package-or-we will be responsible for them in perpetuity by continuing with the same failed methodology. Herein lies a series of stopgap solutions that if implemented, will permanently resolve this crisis. By the time you finish the book, you'll not only agree, you will become an advocate for what can only be described as a cultural transformation.
Black Skin, White Masks
| Author | : Frantz Fanon |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Black race |
| ISBN | : 9780745399546 |
Black Skin, White Masks is a classic, devastating account of the dehumanising effects of colonisation experienced by black subjects living in a white world. First published in English in 1967, this book provides an unsurpassed study of the psychology of racism using scientific analysis and poetic grace.Franz Fanon identifies a devastating pathology at the heart of Western culture, a denial of difference, that persists to this day. A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, his writings speak to all who continue the struggle for political and cultural liberation.With an introduction by Paul Gilroy, author of There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack.
Living Your Yoga
| Author | : Judith Hanson Lasater |
| Publisher | : Shambhala Publications |
| Total Pages | : 173 |
| Release | : 2016-08-09 |
| Genre | : Health & Fitness |
| ISBN | : 1930485859 |
If you think that you have to retreat to a cave in the Himalayas to find the enlightenment that yoga promises, think again. In this second edition of Living Your Yoga, Judith Hanson Lasater stretches the meaning of yoga beyond its familiar poses and breathing techniques to include the events of daily life—all of them—as ways to practice. This edition includes three new chapters (Relaxation, Empathy, and Worship), a full index, and new interior and cover designs.Using the time-honored wisdom of the Yoga Sutra and the Bhagavad Gita to steer the course, she serves up off-the-mat practices to guide you in deepening your relationships with yourself, your family and friends, and the world around you.Inspiring and practical, she blends her heartfelt knowledge of an ancient tradition with her life experiences as a daughter, sister, partner, mother, friend, and yoga practitioner and teacher. The result: a new yoga that beckons you to find the spiritual in everyday life.
