The Language of Kindness

Posted on 10 October 2017 by Christie Watson

A moving, lyrical, beautifully written portrait of a nurse and the lives she has touched Christie Watson spent twenty years as a nurse, and in this intimate, poignant, and remarkably powerful book, she opens the doors of the hospital and shares its secrets She takes us by her side down hospital corridors to visit the wards and meet her most unforgettable patients.In the neonatal unit, premature babies fight for their lives, hovering at the very edge of survival, like tiny Emmanuel, wrapped up in a sandwich bag On the cancer wards, the nurses administer chemotherapy and, long after the medicine stops working, something important which Watson learns to recognize when her own father is dying of cancer In the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, the nurses wash the hair of a little girl to remove the smell of smoke from the house fire The emergency room is overcrowded as ever, with waves of alcohol and drug addicted patients as well as patients like Betty, a widow suffering chest pain, frail and alone And the stories of the geriatric ward Gladys and older patients like her show the plight of the most vulnerable members of our society.Through the smallest of actions, nursing provides vital care and kindness All of us will experience illness in our lifetime, and we will all depend on the support and dignity that nurses offer us yet the women and men who form the vanguard of our health care remain unsung In this age of fear, hate, and division, Christie Watson has written a book that reminds us of all that we share, and of the urgency of compassion. New Read [ The Language of Kindness ] author [ Christie Watson ] – kino-fada.fr Christie Watson spent twenty years as a nurse, and in this intimate, poignant, and remarkably powerful book, she shares its secrets.Christie Watson worked for the NHS for twenty years She takes us on her journey from her very first day in training, walking along the hospital corridors, telling us what she has seen and heard, and the various wards departments she has worked on She writes about the compassion, understanding and the genuine care needed to do the job This book is a tribute to nur Christie Watson spent twenty years as a nurse, and in this intimate, poignant, and remarkably powerful book, she shares its secrets.Christie Watson worked for the NHS for twenty years She takes us on her journey from her very first day in training, walking along the hospital corridors, ...This advance reader copy was provided by Crown Publishing via NetGalley.This book was written by a woman who became a nurse 20 years ago in the United Kingdom under the auspices of the NHS or National Health Service Working in the healthcare profession is about as real as you can get, so as a lover of non fiction biographies, I was immediately drawn into this very frank memoir Nurse author Christie Watson takes us along on her very first day in training, walking through the hospital hallways This advance reader copy was provided by Crown P...If the rating were only about the content of this book, it would be an easy 5 stars Christie Watson writes about the need for compassion, understanding, and genuine care for each other She tells of the hardships of modern nursing and the funding deficits that mean both patients and staff are being let down on multiple levels She lets the ...Based on the 20 years that Watson spent as a nurse in England s health system before leaving to write full time, this taps into the widespread feeling that medicine is in desperate need of a good dose of compassion, and will ring true for anyone who spends time in hospitals, whether as a patient or a carer.Watson presents her book as a roughly chronological tour through the stages of nursing from pediatrics through to elderly care and the tending to dead bodies but also through her own caree Based on the 20 years that Watson spent as a nurse in England s health system before leaving to write full time, this taps into the widespread feeling that medicine is in desperate need of a good dose of compassion, and will ring true for anyone who spends time in hospitals, whether as a patient or a carer.Watson presents her book as a roughly chronological tour through the stages of nursing from pediatrics through to elderly care and the tending to dead bodies but also through her own career, as she grows from a seventeen year old trainee who s squeamish about blood to a broadly experienced nurse who can hardly be fazed by anything The first chapter is set up like a tour of the hospital, describing everything she sees and hears as she makes her way up to her office, and the final chapter takes place on her very last day as a nurse, ...First of all, thank you to Penguin Random House and the author for sending me an ARC of this wonderful book for review This book is authored by Christie Watson, who spentthan 20 years as a nurse in hospitals in and around London It is a tribute to all nurses who work extremely hard and are sometimes underappreciated They see people at their worst, and sometimes at their best when a cure is found or a new life is welcomed into the world They see tragedy, abuse, life, death, and hope The First of all, thank you to Penguin Random House and the author for sending me an ARC of this wonderful book for review This book is authored by Christie Watson, who spentthan 20 years as a nurse in hospitals in and around London It is a tribute to all nurses who work extremely hard and are sometimes underappreciated They see people at their worst, and sometimes at their best when a cure is found or a new life is ...What a truly inspirational story this is as Christie Watson literally took me by the hand and walked me through twenty years of her nursing career, sharing some of the most intimate moments where she, her patients and their families were at their most vulnerable She made me laugh and cry with a raw honesty where she held nothing back warts and all.Going into nursing was not a calling for her buta career that she stumbled on through circumstances This journey took me through A E to What a truly inspirationa...Christie Watson is a nurse in the UK This is her memoir She shares stories about her nursing training, and about her experiences in various wards units of the hospital There was something about her writing style that I didn t particularly like It s not that is an odd or unusual style, b... From BBC Radio 4 Book of the week In her illuminating memoir, Christie Watson gives an account of her twenty year nursing career At the heart of her intimate portrait of hospital life are the small acts of kindness and compassion that all of us will receive when we inevitably experience illness, whether it be ourselv...I have always loved books about Drs Nurses Hospitals, and was very excited to read this one It is a beautiful book, a look into the daily life of a nurse It is a fast, interesting read, some parts actually made me cry The author was a nurse in the UK, so I found it fascinating to read the differences between the health care system there, and here in the US Some of the stories in the book, I wish there had been a littledetail, certain patients jumped out at methan others But all I have always loved books about Drs Nurses Hospitals, and was very excited to read this one It is a beautiful book, a look into the daily life of a nurse It is a fast, interesting read, some parts actually made me cry The author was a nurse in the UK, so I found it fascinating to rea...Christie Watson was a nurse for 20 years, and this book is Christie s account of her nurse training and subsequent career, and all of the fascinating experiences she encountered, people she met, and the things that she felt As a nurse myself, I found this a really fascinating read to begin with due to the content and some of the experiences that I could relate to However, at around the halfway mark I lost interest as the writing style was quite dry, the stories long and convoluted, and it did Christie Watson was a nurse for 20 years, and this book is Christie s account of her nurse training and subsequent career, and all of the fascinating experiences she encountered, people she met, and the things that she felt As a nurse myself, I found t...

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10 October 2017

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