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When the Nurse Becomes a Patient
Cortney Davis
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Description for When the Nurse Becomes a Patient
Series: Literature & Medicine. Num Pages: 32 pages. BIC Classification: BM; MQC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 214 x 13. Weight in Grams: 390.
In the summer of 2013, Cortney Davis, a nurse practitioner and author who often writes about her interactions with patients, underwent routine one-day surgery. A surgical mishap led to a series of life-altering and life-threatening complications, resulting in two prolonged hospital stays and a lengthy recovery. During twenty-six days in the hospital, Davis experienced how suddenly a caregiver can become a care receiver and what it’s like to be “on the other side of the sickbed.” As a nurse, she was accustomed to suffering and to the empathy such witnessing can evoke, but as a patient she learned new and ... Read more
In the summer of 2013, Cortney Davis, a nurse practitioner and author who often writes about her interactions with patients, underwent routine one-day surgery. A surgical mishap led to a series of life-altering and life-threatening complications, resulting in two prolonged hospital stays and a lengthy recovery. During twenty-six days in the hospital, Davis experienced how suddenly a caregiver can become a care receiver and what it’s like to be “on the other side of the sickbed.” As a nurse, she was accustomed to suffering and to the empathy such witnessing can evoke, but as a patient she learned new and ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Kent State University Press United States
Number of pages
32
Condition
New
Series
Literature & Medicine
Number of Pages
32
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Kent, OH, United States
ISBN
9781606352304
SKU
V9781606352304
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About Cortney Davis
Cortney Davis is the author of The Heart’s Truth: Essays on the Art of Nursing (The Kent State University Press, USA, 2009) and of five poetry collections, including Leopold’s Maneuvers, and is the winner of an American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award and the Prairie Schooner Poetry Book Prize. Coeditor of two anthologies of poetry and prose ... Read more
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