A Matter of Life & Death: Courage, Compassion and the Fight Against Coronavirus on the Front Line - Couverture souple

Critcher, Kelly

 
9781789464412: A Matter of Life & Death: Courage, Compassion and the Fight Against Coronavirus on the Front Line
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1789464412 ISBN 13 : 9781789464412
Editeur : John Blake Publishing Ltd, 2021

Synopsis

It was a low-level panic at first, but very quickly there were big changes taking place. Day by day, wards were being cleared to make way for Covid-positive patients. Things were getting worse by the day. For the first time in my nursing career, I felt scared. As a palliative care nurse, it is Kelly Critcher's job to look death in the eye - to save a patient while the fight can still be won, and confront life's end with grace and kindness when it can't. In early 2020, everything changed for nurses on the NHS front line. Working on Covid wards and the High Dependency Unit, Kelly spent the height of the coronavirus crisis at Northwick Park hospital - perhaps the UK hospital most deeply ravaged by the illness. She, and many others like her, battled tirelessly in a critical care unit pushed to breaking point, delivering the bad news and fighting the good fight, day-in, day-out, throughout the gravest test our health service has faced since its inception. Kelly's story weaves together her raw, emotional diaries from the COVID frontline with a broader reflection on the truths about a life spent caught between battling for her patients' lives and helping them face down death with courage and compassion. Bringing together the enormity of the last twelve months - and the scars it will leave - this is a book for our times.

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À propos de l?auteur

Daughter and granddaughter of nurses, Kelly Critcher qualified in 2007 and went into Acute Medicine. Following a moving encounter with a dying patient, she moved into palliative care. In March 2020, as Covid-19 took hold, Kelly used her years of experience as a volunteer in the hospital's High Dependency Unit, seeing the best and worst of the crisis first-hand.

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Éditeur
John Blake Publishing Ltd
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1789464412
ISBN 13 
9781789464412
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
320
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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