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Author Davis, Cortney

Title When the Nurse Becomes a Patient : a Story in Words and Images
Published Ashland : Kent State University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (43 pages)
Contents Cover Page; Halftitle Page; Title Page; Dedication; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgments; Transfusion; On a Scale of One to Ten; Dilaudid-Land; The Dark Night; The Dark Night 2; Last Rites; My Husband Cares for Me Tenderly; Twenty-Five Nights; A Little Bit of Terror; CT Scan; I Offer My Suffering; Angel Band; Afterword
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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Subject Davis, Cortney, 1945- -- Health
SUBJECT Davis, Cortney, 1945- fast
Subject Sick -- Psychology.
Hospital patients -- Psychology.
Sick -- Pictorial works
Hospital patients -- Pictorial works
Diseases in art.
Arts medicine.
Painting.
Sick Role
Paintings
painting (image-making)
paintings (visual works)
Arts medicine
Diseases in art
Health
Hospital patients
Hospital patients -- Psychology
Painting
Sick
Sick -- Psychology
Genre/Form Pictorial works
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781631011214
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9781631011207
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