The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives by Theresa BrownMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
If you ever wanted to know what it was like in a day of a nurse, this may be a good book to read. This nurse, Theresa Brown works in oncology hematology, which is blood cancers. They may also get patients with rare blood disorders as one of her patients in this book.
Theresa was professor at Tufts University with a doctorate in English and made the odd shift to becoming a nurse after having twins. She first thought about being a maternity nurse but challenging care is in the cancer wards.
This book covers just one day, one shift, beginning at home and ending back at home at the end of the day. There are all the minute details of what goes on throughout the day. For some people this level of minutia may be a little too much, but it was fine for me.
The book title says four patients, but in the end there really are five. One goes home and a new patient is admitted, actually she gets two new patients that day, and both were already known to her.
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