When the Nurse Becomes a Patient : a Story in Words and Images.
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 lengt...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Ashland :
Kent State University Press,
2015
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 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 learn |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (43 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781631011214 1631011219 9781631011207 1631011200 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
