Blind Cat Rescue: If you are a Trumper, you will hate it. She states facts and truths. You can call truth and facts fake news all day, but it does not change the fact that truth is truth and facts is facts no matter which side of the road you are. She does have a salty mouth so if curse words hurts your feelings, you will not enjoy the book.
If you want to see what covid was like from her perception, you will get that. You will see just how hard it has been for the front-line staff. She does have some dark humor, I am a retired paramedic so I get that it is a survival thing and I have heard so much worse language at work. I enjoyed the book. The only thing I would have liked to see is more stories, keep telling about the 19-year-old who died, the young ones that died, the reactions of the families. make it so real that the GOP can't say it is fake. And I understood why she cheered every time a GOP government person got it, they made it so much worse for the world and the medical staff. It did not have to be this way.
United States on Apr 30, 2022
Canadian gal: A stunning journal by an ICU nurse about being one of the first front-line nurses to treat covid patients in the SF Bay area. Her views about the pandemic are based on personal experience and they are terrifying. In fact, if you are dismissive about the chances of dying from this dreaded disease, you'll run to the nearest medical facility to get your vaccine. Cassie has seen what this thing does, and she makes no excuses or apologies. Run, hide, and get your vax. It's not over, people. And hug a nurse virtually, or send flowers, chocolate or anything to the nearest icu — because they deserve to be appreciated.
Cassie describes the horrendous personal tole on front line staff during the worst days, the need for ongoing therapy and self-care to get through it, and the heart-wrenching times of telling people that their loved one has died, or seeing the stroke victim come through those doors long after having had covid. Death may not scare you, but how does living in a wheelchair unable to breathe or not being able to swallow food sound to you? Who will pay those bills when you can't work from chronic fatigue? This virus has long lasting and serious side-effects. Don't play...
Canada on Nov 29, 2021
Iola: Year of the Nurse isn't the kind of book I normally read. I read fiction. Christian fiction. Year of the Nurse is a memoir written by a non-Christian. It's full of black humour and swearing, and blames a lot of stuff on God (and Trump, Fox News, and Evangelical Protestants in general). In other words, it's everything I usually try and avoid in my recreational reading.
Yet I was hooked from the opening page.
It's written by an ICU nurse in California who realised volunteered to nurse on the Covid ward in 2020, the Year of the Nurse as proclaimed by the World Health Organization to honour the 200th anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale.
The memoir is an edited compilation of her tweets, blog posts and private journal, interspersed with commentary about what it all means. Some of it is pretty technical, but the author has the ability to translate complex medical principles into language a non-professional can read and understand.
It's a hard read.
The author starts before the USA has its first case of Covid-19, when she's watching the TV news and sees nurses in Italy proning patients (positioning them on their stomachs). I saw those...
United States on Oct 26, 2021
Chris Hill: Although I felt a great deal of sympathy for anyone working in the health service during this terrible time this book was just a rant. I gave up half way through. This poor nurse is just so terribly angry with everything in her life.
United Kingdom on Oct 05, 2021
ObiJanKenobi: As a retired ICU nurse myself, I was compelled to read Ms Alexander's memoir even though I knew a lot of what she would say. COVID-19 was foreshadowed by SARS but I don't think even the most astute observer could have foreseen the utter devastation of the health care system or the loss of life we've experienced in just 18 months. Year of the Nurse doesn't gloss over any of the horror health care workers have and still are dealing with. Because nurses have the greatest amount of patient contact and carry out the lion's share of treatment, they're also the ones who see the worst of it. PTSD was problematic for ICU staff before COVID-19, but there's a tsunami of it coming, with NO plan to manage it.
For those readers who need a language warning, you may choose not to read this book to protect your own sensibilities. But guess what? Nurses swear. A lot. It's the only pop-off valve they have at times. So if you're offended by F-bombs and are likely to criticize someone whose shoes you've never worn because of them, move along. You're not going to understand the story anyway.
Canada on Aug 26, 2021
R Pennington: This is the nonfiction chronicle - written at the time - of an ICU nurse in the US through 2020-2021. From either inside the US or outside, it is essential reading to understand not just the pandemic’s ground truth - a hint of the fight in many ICU rooms, but how the American system burns people out. An unquestionable masterpiece and an essential read.
Germany on Aug 02, 2021
Jim: Long story short, this book was great! I usually reserve great for books that wow and entertain me. This is not that kind of book. It is a great book because of the impact it will have and because it will help understand, at some level, what COVID nurses dealt with, and are still dealing with.
This book is a year, and then some in the life of one ICU nurse as she cared for COVID-19 patients, but that year, in some form is typical of 4 million or so nurses in this country alone. Read the book and learn why cheering, banging pots and pizza parties just were not a sufficient way to support nurses.
A portion of this book is taken directly from the author's twitter feed, personal diaries, and email lists. The rest of the book is expands on that material to present a raw, unfiltered, uncensored, entirely honest look at a year of the life of a ICU nurse.
It isn't a happy book, and while reading it, you may find yourself depressed and/or angry. That is ok. You still need to read this book and understand what nurses went through, and sadly are still going through, in their effort to save people from COVID. If you are depressed and/or angry while reading this, you will...
United States on Jul 21, 2021
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Canada on Mar 27, 2023