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A Pandemic Nurse's Diary Paperback – September 8, 2020
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March 25, 2020When I walk through the automatic doors into the ICU at 7 AM, I step into a war zone. There are overflowing trash buckets and debris scattered all over the unit. Four red crash carts sit outside the rooms, their drawers open and largely empty, witnesses to the chaotic night. One of the patients who coded survived, the three others died. One body in a white plastic shroud is still in a room on the bed waiting for a stretcher. So opens the personal diary of Nurse T. She is one of the thousands of health care workers in New York City who covered their twelve-hour shifts day after day as the Covid-19 virus raged through the city. Her account is personal, poignant and poetic as she documents the suffering of the poor, largely immigrant patients who flooded the facility seeking treatment.It is also the story of a city, state and federal government that long denied hospitals like hers the funding and support they need to meet current standards. Long starved for funds, the facility’s ancient infrastructure and inadequate supplies placed a heavy burden on the staff, who nonetheless walked up the marble stairs all through the crisis and gave their best, whatever the personal cost, whatever the outcome.
"An exhilarating read that takes you right to the front lines of thepandemic and the heroes risking and putting their own lives in harm'sway to save others! ...A great read that you will not be able to putdown!" ~PhillyLabor.com "A critical care nurse in New York Cityprovides a vivid and powerful personal account of how Covid-19 hasimpacted her co-workers and patients." ~World Wide Work Nurse T's narrative...is vital for us and the future generation to understand thechallenges of front liners during the time of pandemic. ~ OSM! Theonline magazine for awesome global citizens "Accompanied bybeautiful drawings of hospital workers caring for patients, in theirPPE...this is a narrative which helps us understand both COVID-19 and theworkers who faced it." ~Portside
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Hard Ball Press (September 8, 2020) Language
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5 x 0.39 x 8 inches
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Beautiful but also heart wrenching read that went straight to my heart and soul. As a nurse myself, I felt every emotion the author conveyed. I left bedside nursing about a decade ago but this book, these stories brought me right back to the patient’s side, to my coworkers, like I never left. I admire Nurse T and all other frontline heroes. Thank you for your sacrifices to take care of the people. Thank you for your courage to share your stories
As a PCA working through the pandemic, ‘A Pandemic Nurse’s Diary’ hits the heart in an intimate way. Nurse T takes you behind the scenes and shows the reader the wreckage of COVID on patients AND workers. The last pages contain meditations, reflections, and writing exercises for caregivers to stay aware of their mental health during these challenging times. In short, a beautifully written and engaging book that should be required reading for everyone.
A brilliant and heartbreaking analogy of the COVID pandemic written from the firsthand experience of someone fighting the good fight! Deeply emotional, uplifting and tragic at the same time. Nurse T’s account of this moment in history is truly inspiring!
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Inspiring view of our healthcare workers in these times!
By Steve K on November 28, 2020
I highly recommend. If you think you know all about COVID, think again. This first responder’s must-read diary is a nonfiction piece, a rare account of a warrior on the front line, written by Nurse T, a critical care professional with 20 years of hospital duty, and Timothy Sheard, a retired nurse of 40 years. It is a timely, chilling, intimate journey through the diabolical horror of the COVID 19 pandemic, from March 25, 2020, to August 15, 2020, in a New York Hospital. It works as a powerful linear piece with a sense of urgency written in first-person as told by Nurse T. You are going to experience many OMG moments listening to the hospital staff make unbelievable discoveries about this virus based solely on their observations! You will enjoy the illustrations which are a nice touch. The nurse on the cover is a generic portrait of how the nurses looked as they fought this virus together. The chapters read like flash-fiction-zip and are rhythmically consistent, largely due to the no-nonsense style and the strength of the narrators’ voice. Too often, diary entries are disjointed with navel picking meanderings and details that no one cares about. You won’t find that here. Promise. It is action-driven, in the present tense, and fast-paced in real-time, like a movie. Big plus, you can enter this book at any point and be caught up in the drama. I read it in one afternoon because I couldn’t put it down and look forward to re-reading it again. I came away inspired, horrified, and in awe of the hospital community. Although Nurse T is our witness and guide, there is very little of her personality in this book. It could be because she is afraid of professional retaliation, and those details would give her away. On the other hand, what really matters is happening moment by moment, and in this COVID pressure-cooker, personal reflections just have to wait. But I would have liked to get to know Nurse T a bit more to increase my empathy for her. It’s a brave piece about PSTD in the making on American soil, in our hospitals with people we see every day. But unlike soldiers at war who are protected by the government, the hospital staff in our communities were not. That hit me hard. As the pandemic started to spread, I figured that hospitals had everything under control. They were saving people, they knew stuff. Now I know that is simply not true, and I feel helpless. “We are shooting in the bloody dark!” a doctor yells as another patient dies. Yet through the dark, Nurse T finds a level of heroism, courage, and compassion akin to that of a soldier in battle, which she uses to fight the suffering COVID-19 brings. And if that’s not bad enough, the hospital is plagued by an ineffective bureaucratic system stretched to the limits, barely able to pay staff, pathetic in their attempt to protect her and her colleagues either physically or emotionally. I felt like I was looking through Nurse T’s eyes in the ICU at the chaos; the blood pressure machines, the constant monitoring of oxygen levels, and the endless flatliners, then taking a split second to wolf down a piece of pizza or open a gift bag from the Red Cross. Nurses, doctors, and housekeepers were all profoundly shaken, helpless, and confused by this mysterious, deadly virus that caused a fury of suffering and confusion. The first responders who walked among the dead and the dying were simply not prepared. Add a political public healthcare disinformation campaign that suggested people drink bleach, and you have a perfect storm. We give guns to our soldiers, bullets, boots, protective gear, you name it, but to Nurse T and her colleagues? Nothing. They received used gowns and sweaty surgical masks, still they showed up to face an enemy no one knew anything about. How many of us could do that when there is a COVID bomb going off around us? As Nurse T rushes from room to room intubating patients, she wears the same PPE as the day before. When her patients get delirious and panic because they feel like they’re suffocating, she straps them down so they cannot rip the tube out of their bodies and go into cardiac arrest. When they are animated in terror and fear, fentanyl — the primary opiate infusion used to sedate them is running low, morphine is gone, and Ativan desperately short. Nurse T is stunningly frank. She and her colleagues are emotionally numb, their nerves are shattered, they can’t sleep or eat, are developing PSTD, breaking down, and terrified they might bring the virus home to their families. You’d think that would be enough to quit, but that option never crosses her mind. Not even once. In fact, the energy in the hospital is not one of defeat but of warrior-like determination for life, and that is reflected in the intimate moments in this diary with not only the dying, but the dead. I was struck by the entry in which the staff still had the compassion to clean the body of a loved one who had passed, gently rub Vaseline on the eyelids to keep them shut, wrap them in clean sheets and call their family. Touches like these helped me understand the soul of the caretaker. At the end of this book, there is an interactive self-help section. There are healing meditations and writing therapy exercises that deal with sorrow, anger, loneliness, vanquishing painful feelings, and the most important, guilt. I did all of them, and they helped. Although I am not a health professional, I learned that COVID affected me in ways that I still don’t understand. Adding them was a compassionate choice with the optic to heal…the theme of the book. The surgical realism in this book has one clear message. Nursing is a calling, not just a job. And Nurse T is one of many of our urban warriors, and we are blessed to have them. As the patient cried out for help, the caregiver manages a grin, a smile behind the mask, and lays a gentle hand upon the suffering. The bond is strong. It cannot be broken. Not even Death can sever it. (A Pandemic Nurses Diary)
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Hi. I'm a veteran nurse and have worked for 40 years in hospitals. I want to tell the world what it's really like on the front lines of the American health factory. So my crime stories capture the gritty, scary, funny and loving events I see every day in the hospital.
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