A Matter of Life and Death
Courage, compassion and the fight against coronavirus - a palliative care nurse's story
$28.28
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
2 August 2021
Summary
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, everythi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781789464412 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1789464412 |
| Author: | Kelly Critcher |
| Publisher: | John Blake Publishing Ltd |
| Imprint: | John Blake Publishing Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 2 August 2021 |
| Weight: | 240g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 20mm |
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About The Author
Kelly Critcher
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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