The Courage to Care: A Call for Compassion

✍ Scribed by Christie Watson

• Publisher: Random House
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"An inspiring book for our challenging times" —Olivia Coleman

Nurses have never been more important. We benefit from their expertise in our hospitals and beyond: in our schools, on our streets, in prisons, hospices and care homes. When we feel most alone, nurses remind us that we are not alone at all.

In The Courage to Care bestselling author Christie Watson reveals the remarkable extent of nurses' work:

• A community mental-health nurse choreographs support for a man suffering from severe depression
• A teen with stab wounds is treated by the critical-care team; his school nurse visits and he drops the bravado
• A pregnant woman loses frightening amounts of blood following a car accident; it is a military nurse who synchronises the emergency department into immaculate order and focus.

Christie makes a further discovery: that, time and again, it is patients and their families—including her own—who show exceptional strength in the most challenging times. We are all deserving of compassion, and as we share in each other's suffering, Christie Watson shows us how we can find courage too.

Christie Watson is an award-winning, bestselling writer. She has been a nurse for over twenty years. www.christiewatsonauthor.co.uk

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
About the Author
By the Same Author
Dedication
Epigraph
Author’s Note
Introduction
1. A Shrinking Satsuma
2. Cows that Jump Over the Moon
3. The Taste of Lychee Jelly
4. Making Pickles
5. Decorated Veterans
6. A Hamster Named Batman
7. I Got You Babe
8. Basketball Player
9. Fuck off, Janet
10. The Golden Hour
11. Precious Scars
12. Nurses’ Hands
Afterword
Acknowledgements
Copyright