A Matter of Life and Death - Courage, compassion and the fight against coronavirus - a palliative care nurse's story

About the author

Daughter and granddaughter of nurses, Kelly Critcher qualified in 2007 and went into Acute Medicine. Following a moving encounter with a dying patient, she moved into palliative care. In March 2020, as Covid-19 took hold, Kelly used her years of experience as a volunteer in the hospital's High Dependency Unit, seeing the best and worst of the crisis first-hand.

Summary

The powerful memoir of a palliative care nurse's life spent facing down death - and the frontline battle against the coronavirus

Product details

• Authors: K CRITCHER, Kelly Critcher
• Publisher: Bonnier Zaffre
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9781789464412
• ISBN: 978-1-78946-441-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 240 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Memoirs, Coping with illness & specific conditions, Terminal care nursing, Autobiography: science, technology and medicine, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical (inc Patients)