Critical Care (2011) By Theresa Brown

Critical Care (2011) by Theresa Brown was not only such an amazing read, but a real eye-opener. The way she reports her emotions through everything she experiences starting out as a nurse on an oncology floor is so honest and brings to light many issues that we, as future nurses, will most definitely fact at some point in our careers. Probably the biggest issue is dealing with death of patients as well as end of life care. Whenever I think about my future nursing career an image of taking care of and getting to know patients pops up in my head. The fact of life, however, is that everyone must die at some point and the fact that they are ill and having to be in a medical office in the first place probably means that time is going to come sooner than later. …show more content…
81). As she describes the first time she experienced this, she writes, “I left her in the care of [a] nursing student… thinking I was going to have a relatively calm day” (Brown, 2011, p. 82). However, she learns that wouldn’t be the care and only a half hour later they had to call the code. This I definitely see as a challenge as I tend to become very involved in, and concerned about, the lives of people I interact with and that’s a difficult thing when many of these people may not have that much time left on

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