Memoir of a Nurse Working On the Frontlines of COVID-19

Memoir of a Nurse Working On the Frontlines of COVID-19

Author: Holly Blassingame, BSN, RN

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing

Published: 2021-10-20

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 1637640242

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Memoir of a Nurse Working on the Frontlines of COVID-19 By: Holly Blassingame, BSN, RN In this memoir, Holly Blassingame shares her (ongoing) experience as a nurse on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic, shedding light on the struggles and personal hardships she and other medical workers have faced during this difficult time. From confusion and fear to exhaustion and loneliness, Blassingame paints a true picture of what a nurse on the frontline goes through so that those on the outside can better understand their hard work, dedication, and resiliency. Though the pandemic is not over, Memoir of a Nurse Working on the Frontlines of COVID-19 gives hope that those suffering are in good hands and that the human spirit can never be extinguished.


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Download or read book Memoir of a Nurse Working On the Frontlines of COVID-19 written by Holly Blassingame, BSN, RN and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-20 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoir of a Nurse Working on the Frontlines of COVID-19 By: Holly Blassingame, BSN, RN In this memoir, Holly Blassingame shares her (ongoing) experience as a nurse on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic, shedding light on the struggles and personal hardships she and other medical workers have faced during this difficult time. From confusion and fear to exhaustion and loneliness, Blassingame paints a true picture of what a nurse on the frontline goes through so that those on the outside can better understand their hard work, dedication, and resiliency. Though the pandemic is not over, Memoir of a Nurse Working on the Frontlines of COVID-19 gives hope that those suffering are in good hands and that the human spirit can never be extinguished.


Year of the Nurse: A Covid-19 Pandemic Memoir

Year of the Nurse: A Covid-19 Pandemic Memoir

Author: Cassandra Alexander

Publisher: Cassie Alexander

Published: 2021-07-19

Total Pages: 429

ISBN-13: 1955825068

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This book is for anyone, nurse or otherwise, who is furious about how 2020 went down and—how 2021 is going. On April 25th, 2021 at 10:55 in the morning I messaged my chat group of girlfriends from where I work as a nurse on an ICU floor: “Nothing like feeling strongly suicidal at a job where you’re supposed to be keeping people alive,” and then tweeted that my “mental health wasn’t great” and deleted the Twitter app off of my phone because I didn’t want to “overshare.” That I felt like dying. That I would’ve rather died than still be at work. I am not alone. In 2020 there were roughly four million nurses in America. Only 2.7 million U.S. soldiers fought in the Vietnam War. Those who came back from Vietnam, having witnessed atrocities—and in some cases, participated in them—were changed forever. You can’t send four million people into a wartime-equivalent situation without psychological consequences. And yet that’s what America has done. Nurses spent a year battling a largely unknown assailant. Running low on gear. Fearing we might bring something deadly home. Getting coughed on by people who pretended that our fights were imaginary, that our struggles—watching people die, day after day, no matter what we did—were literally fake. Nurses are scarred. And unless people understand what we went through and commit to never let anyone lie in the future about public health, we will never become whole. Year of the Nurse: A Covid-19 Pandemic Memoir is Cassandra Alexander's poignant effort to come to grips with suicidal ideation and PTSD after being a covid nurse in an ICU in 2020. Comprised of original essays and her chronological journals, tweets, and emails as she attempted to save lives, including her own—this book will let you experience last year from the bedside. Come and understand what it was like.


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Download or read book Year of the Nurse: A Covid-19 Pandemic Memoir written by Cassandra Alexander and published by Cassie Alexander. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is for anyone, nurse or otherwise, who is furious about how 2020 went down and—how 2021 is going. On April 25th, 2021 at 10:55 in the morning I messaged my chat group of girlfriends from where I work as a nurse on an ICU floor: “Nothing like feeling strongly suicidal at a job where you’re supposed to be keeping people alive,” and then tweeted that my “mental health wasn’t great” and deleted the Twitter app off of my phone because I didn’t want to “overshare.” That I felt like dying. That I would’ve rather died than still be at work. I am not alone. In 2020 there were roughly four million nurses in America. Only 2.7 million U.S. soldiers fought in the Vietnam War. Those who came back from Vietnam, having witnessed atrocities—and in some cases, participated in them—were changed forever. You can’t send four million people into a wartime-equivalent situation without psychological consequences. And yet that’s what America has done. Nurses spent a year battling a largely unknown assailant. Running low on gear. Fearing we might bring something deadly home. Getting coughed on by people who pretended that our fights were imaginary, that our struggles—watching people die, day after day, no matter what we did—were literally fake. Nurses are scarred. And unless people understand what we went through and commit to never let anyone lie in the future about public health, we will never become whole. Year of the Nurse: A Covid-19 Pandemic Memoir is Cassandra Alexander's poignant effort to come to grips with suicidal ideation and PTSD after being a covid nurse in an ICU in 2020. Comprised of original essays and her chronological journals, tweets, and emails as she attempted to save lives, including her own—this book will let you experience last year from the bedside. Come and understand what it was like.


Memoirs from the Frontlines

Memoirs from the Frontlines

Author: Kim Sloan

Publisher:

Published: 2024-04-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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2020, the year the world shut down. My husband and I had been living our best lives. John had been a nurse since 2001 and I'd also been a nurse since 2008. We'd been traveling the country as Intensive Care Unit (ICU)/Emergency Room (ER) travel Registered Nurses (RNs) since 2017. We arrived in Southern Georgia for our ninth assignment in the fall of 2019. We had no idea what we had signed up for when we accepted this extension for our placement there-that this small town was about to become a major epicenter for COVID-that we would see more death in those few months than in all our prior years of nursing combined. We had no idea that the world was about to completely shut down because of a virus, or that we were about to become front-line heroes! We also worked in Tennessee, Washington state, and Las Vegas, Nevada during those years, losing patients to the Coronavirus in all three states. COVID never changed no matter what state we were working in. While writing this memoir has been very therapeutic, my true intentions are to provide a look at my experience so others can begin their own healing process. I also want others to understand by reading this memoir that it's ok to make mistakes, and it's ok to apologize for those mistakes. But most of all, even throughout a pandemic and even through a mental breakdown, it's ok to lose your "voice," but it's not ok to give up finding that voice once again. Dark times are ok for a short time; however, to live in the dark is not living. You need to find your light and adjust to the world that surrounds you, COVID and all!


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Download or read book Memoirs from the Frontlines written by Kim Sloan and published by . This book was released on 2024-04-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2020, the year the world shut down. My husband and I had been living our best lives. John had been a nurse since 2001 and I'd also been a nurse since 2008. We'd been traveling the country as Intensive Care Unit (ICU)/Emergency Room (ER) travel Registered Nurses (RNs) since 2017. We arrived in Southern Georgia for our ninth assignment in the fall of 2019. We had no idea what we had signed up for when we accepted this extension for our placement there-that this small town was about to become a major epicenter for COVID-that we would see more death in those few months than in all our prior years of nursing combined. We had no idea that the world was about to completely shut down because of a virus, or that we were about to become front-line heroes! We also worked in Tennessee, Washington state, and Las Vegas, Nevada during those years, losing patients to the Coronavirus in all three states. COVID never changed no matter what state we were working in. While writing this memoir has been very therapeutic, my true intentions are to provide a look at my experience so others can begin their own healing process. I also want others to understand by reading this memoir that it's ok to make mistakes, and it's ok to apologize for those mistakes. But most of all, even throughout a pandemic and even through a mental breakdown, it's ok to lose your "voice," but it's not ok to give up finding that voice once again. Dark times are ok for a short time; however, to live in the dark is not living. You need to find your light and adjust to the world that surrounds you, COVID and all!


Frontline Humans

Frontline Humans

Author: Yanti Turang

Publisher:

Published: 2022-11

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781922310910

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An Australian-Indonesian nurse grapples with race, identity, belonging, and broken public health systems as she navigates family tragedy, natural disasters, and devastating viruses from Ebola in Sierra Leone to COVID-19 in the US. In March 2020, as COVID-19 accelerated around the globe, the state of Louisiana in the United States was experiencing the fastest growth in new cases in the world. In New Orleans, the state's largest city, nurse and Australian-Indonesian expat Yanti Turang found herself at the frontlines of the worst public health crisis in American history. Recruited as the deputy medical operations manager for the state of Louisiana, Turang helped set up a 1,000-bed field hospital at a New Orleans convention centre to accommodate the overflow of COVID patients from local hospitals. Over the following months, as the world reeled from the impacts of the worst pandemic in a century, Turang and her healthcare colleagues became intimately familiar with the devastating effects of the virus, enduring a situation in which their own needs and safety were often overlooked. Reflecting on her time working as an ER nurse throughout the coronavirus pandemic, treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, founding and running charity health organisation LearnToLive across Asia and Africa, weathering tsunamis in Indonesia, hurricanes in New Orleans and nursing her own personal loss and heartbreak, Frontline Humansis a story of courage, generosity, hope, and resilience.


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Download or read book Frontline Humans written by Yanti Turang and published by . This book was released on 2022-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Australian-Indonesian nurse grapples with race, identity, belonging, and broken public health systems as she navigates family tragedy, natural disasters, and devastating viruses from Ebola in Sierra Leone to COVID-19 in the US. In March 2020, as COVID-19 accelerated around the globe, the state of Louisiana in the United States was experiencing the fastest growth in new cases in the world. In New Orleans, the state's largest city, nurse and Australian-Indonesian expat Yanti Turang found herself at the frontlines of the worst public health crisis in American history. Recruited as the deputy medical operations manager for the state of Louisiana, Turang helped set up a 1,000-bed field hospital at a New Orleans convention centre to accommodate the overflow of COVID patients from local hospitals. Over the following months, as the world reeled from the impacts of the worst pandemic in a century, Turang and her healthcare colleagues became intimately familiar with the devastating effects of the virus, enduring a situation in which their own needs and safety were often overlooked. Reflecting on her time working as an ER nurse throughout the coronavirus pandemic, treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, founding and running charity health organisation LearnToLive across Asia and Africa, weathering tsunamis in Indonesia, hurricanes in New Orleans and nursing her own personal loss and heartbreak, Frontline Humansis a story of courage, generosity, hope, and resilience.


Inspiring True Stories of Everyday Heroes

Inspiring True Stories of Everyday Heroes

Author: The Unapologetic Voice House

Publisher: The Unapologetic Voice House

Published: 2021-02-23

Total Pages: 83

ISBN-13: 1735974897

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Put yourself in the shoes of doctors, nurses and flight attendants with Inspiring True Stories of Everyday Heroes: From the Frontlines of #COVID-19. These stories were collected to give essential workers a place to share their experiences. In this book you will know what it felt like to go to work dressed in head-to-toe Personal Protective Equipment without knowing if the virus will take or spare the lives of patients. You'll sense the anxiety about having to leave your family behind to fulfill your duty as a nurse. You'll feel the pride of landing your dream job as a flight attendant only to experience a global pandemic months later. You'll also feel the heartbreak of losing a family member to COVID while other family members survived it all while working as a nurse treating COVID patients. These authors are real life heroes and they don't wear capes. They are our neighbors, loved ones and friends. The Unapologetic Voice House compiled and published this anthology book. The Unapologetic Voice House is an independent publishing house on a mission to launch strong female voices and stories into the world.


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Download or read book Inspiring True Stories of Everyday Heroes written by The Unapologetic Voice House and published by The Unapologetic Voice House . This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Put yourself in the shoes of doctors, nurses and flight attendants with Inspiring True Stories of Everyday Heroes: From the Frontlines of #COVID-19. These stories were collected to give essential workers a place to share their experiences. In this book you will know what it felt like to go to work dressed in head-to-toe Personal Protective Equipment without knowing if the virus will take or spare the lives of patients. You'll sense the anxiety about having to leave your family behind to fulfill your duty as a nurse. You'll feel the pride of landing your dream job as a flight attendant only to experience a global pandemic months later. You'll also feel the heartbreak of losing a family member to COVID while other family members survived it all while working as a nurse treating COVID patients. These authors are real life heroes and they don't wear capes. They are our neighbors, loved ones and friends. The Unapologetic Voice House compiled and published this anthology book. The Unapologetic Voice House is an independent publishing house on a mission to launch strong female voices and stories into the world.


Last Breath

Last Breath

Author: Michael Glide

Publisher:

Published: 2020-10-23

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780578797496

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This memoir describes the patient experiences of a certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA) during the COVID-19 pandemic. The CRNA, a frontline healthcare worker, was empowered from the heartfelt interactions of those cared for suffering from COVID-19. The actual moments described in the memoir are of COVID-19 patients who took his or her last breaths prior to being mechanically ventilated. The outcome of many described entered into eternal rest, but the author aims to tell the last breath stories in order to set his or her souls free. Also, his or her stories are told to aid in innovation and dissemination of information for present and future generations. On the other hand, the author envisions this memoir as an outlet for frontline workers to share and reflect on their experiences and frustrations. Together we can champion present and future contagions.


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Download or read book Last Breath written by Michael Glide and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir describes the patient experiences of a certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA) during the COVID-19 pandemic. The CRNA, a frontline healthcare worker, was empowered from the heartfelt interactions of those cared for suffering from COVID-19. The actual moments described in the memoir are of COVID-19 patients who took his or her last breaths prior to being mechanically ventilated. The outcome of many described entered into eternal rest, but the author aims to tell the last breath stories in order to set his or her souls free. Also, his or her stories are told to aid in innovation and dissemination of information for present and future generations. On the other hand, the author envisions this memoir as an outlet for frontline workers to share and reflect on their experiences and frustrations. Together we can champion present and future contagions.


Everybody Just Breathe

Everybody Just Breathe

Author: Amanda Peterson

Publisher:

Published: 2022-04-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781643436708

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Amanda Peterson is an ICU nurse, graduate student, and mother of two. She's also one of America's frontline workers in the fight against COVID-19. Everybody Just Breathe is the harrowing, generous, often irreverent memoir chronicling the longest shift of her life.


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Download or read book Everybody Just Breathe written by Amanda Peterson and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amanda Peterson is an ICU nurse, graduate student, and mother of two. She's also one of America's frontline workers in the fight against COVID-19. Everybody Just Breathe is the harrowing, generous, often irreverent memoir chronicling the longest shift of her life.


Burning Out on the COVID Front Lines

Burning Out on the COVID Front Lines

Author: Dhaval R. Desai, M.D.

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2023-10-31

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1476651116

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This memoir tells the story of Georgia physician Dhaval Desai's life during the Covid-19 pandemic. As a new father, frontline physician and healthcare leader on the brink of burnout, and a member of an ethnic minority in the South, his tale is marked by chaotic intersections. Throughout, his commitment to fostering and advocating for caring and compassion in the practice of medicine shines as Desai shares his unique perspective.


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Download or read book Burning Out on the COVID Front Lines written by Dhaval R. Desai, M.D. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir tells the story of Georgia physician Dhaval Desai's life during the Covid-19 pandemic. As a new father, frontline physician and healthcare leader on the brink of burnout, and a member of an ethnic minority in the South, his tale is marked by chaotic intersections. Throughout, his commitment to fostering and advocating for caring and compassion in the practice of medicine shines as Desai shares his unique perspective.


Burning Out on the COVID Front Lines

Burning Out on the COVID Front Lines

Author: Dhaval R. Desai, M.D.

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2023-11-21

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1476691827

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This memoir tells the story of Georgia physician Dhaval Desai's life during the Covid-19 pandemic. As a new father, frontline physician and healthcare leader on the brink of burnout, and a member of an ethnic minority in the South, his tale is marked by chaotic intersections. Throughout, his commitment to fostering and advocating for caring and compassion in the practice of medicine shines as Desai shares his unique perspective.


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Download or read book Burning Out on the COVID Front Lines written by Dhaval R. Desai, M.D. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir tells the story of Georgia physician Dhaval Desai's life during the Covid-19 pandemic. As a new father, frontline physician and healthcare leader on the brink of burnout, and a member of an ethnic minority in the South, his tale is marked by chaotic intersections. Throughout, his commitment to fostering and advocating for caring and compassion in the practice of medicine shines as Desai shares his unique perspective.


A Matter of Life and Death

A Matter of Life and Death

Author: Kelly Critcher

Publisher: John Blake

Published: 2021-04-29

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1789464498

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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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Download or read book A Matter of Life and Death written by Kelly Critcher and published by John Blake. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.