Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between, (Paperback)

from EMYeak

Having received an advance reader's edition of this book, I was anxious to read this memoir by a former English professor. Ms. Brown decided to make a mid-life career change and left the comfort of her position at Tufts University to take up the challenge and rigors of nursing school. Upon comple...

from cal8769

Theresa Brown writes of her experiences of being a new nurse. I enjyed this book mainly because I am a LPN and I can relate to so many of her stories. I started my career working in the ICU telemetry stepdown unit. So many of her stories are so true to life and her feelings are described so well ...

from rosalita

I had an extra interest in reading Critical Care, as I underwent cancer treatment in 2008 and thus spent a great deal of time in the oncology ward of the local hospital. I found Theresa Brown's story to be a compelling one, both from the sense of her choosing nursing as a second career and her ex...

from paulco

Before I got a chance to read this book, it was borrowed by a friend who has been a nurse for 25 years. She finished it in two days and promptly handed it to her husband and had him read it because she said it explained what she did far better than she could ever verbalize. It deals with the ever...

from elenchus

Critical Care is a quick and engaging read, providing a glimpse into the everyday activities of a nurse in a busy hospital. Brown's description and sketches of the people she meets held my interest, and she drops the occasional pearl of a sentence. Her observations on the interaction of her job a...