Year of the Nurse: A 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic Memoir

This book is for everyone, nurse or otherwise, who is furious about how 2020 went down -- and how 2021 is going.#1 Amazon Bestseller in Critical & Intensive Care Nursing#1 Amazon Bestseller in Mental Health Nursing#1 Amazon Bestseller in Physicians#1 Amazon Bestseller in Nursing Issues#1 New Release in Biography of Medical Professionals#1 New Release in Nurse-Patient Relations#1 New Release in Nursing Patient EducationOn April 25th, 2021 at 10:55 in the morning I messaged my chat group of girlfriends from where I work as a nurse on an ICU floor: “Nothing like feeling strongly suicidal at a job where you’re supposed to be keeping people alive,” and then tweeted that my “mental health wasn’t great” and deleted the Twitter app off of my phone because I didn’t want to “overshare.”That I felt like dying.That I would’ve rather died than still be at work.I am not alone.In 2020 there were roughly four million nurses in America.

Only 2.7 million U.S.

soldiers fought in the Vietnam War.