Critical Care
A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between

Interesting book and truly an accurate representation of Nursing on a busy hospital unit. I am an RN who works with new nurses and I found this book helpful in reminding me what it is like to be experiencing patient care and the complexities with it in the hospital setting for a new nurse. I love th......more

The author of this memoir used to be an English professor, but she chucked all that to become a nurse. The memoir is about her first year as a nurse on a medical oncology ward. The book is well-written, but ultimately there's just nothing special about it. It's essentially a series of stories about......more

Publisher: At my job, people die,” writes Theresa Brown, capturing both the burden and the singular importance of her profession. CRITICAL CARE chronicles Brown, a former English Professor at Tufts University, on her first year as an RN in medical oncology and the emotional ups and downs she encount......more

It was better than I anticipated this journey with Theresa Brown through her first year as a nurse working an adult medical oncology unit. What I liked best was her compassion and drive to be the best for her patients. I have been so disappointed over the last 5 or so years at what I have witnessed......more

Theresa Brown, former university English Professor, who decided to change her occupation and become an oncology nurse, is a wonderful and powerful writer. After reading her second book, "The Shift" that chronicled one shift on an oncology floor of a hospital, I just had to read something else by thi......more