{"product_id":"year-of-the-nurse-cassandra-alexander-9781955825276","title":"Year of the Nurse: A 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis book is for everyone, nurse or otherwise, who is furious about how 2020 went down -- and how 2021 is going.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat I felt like dying.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat I would've rather died than still be at work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eI am not alone.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2020 there were roughly four million nurses in America. Only 2.7 million U.S. soldiers fought in the Vietnam War. Those soldiers who came back from Vietnam having witnessed atrocities-and in some cases, participated in them-were changed forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou can't send four million people into a wartime-equivalent situation without there being psychological consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd yet that's what America has done.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNurses spent a year battling a largely unknown assailant. Running low on gear. Fearing we might bring something deadly home. Getting coughed on by people who pretended that our fights were imaginary, that our struggles-watching people die, day after day, no matter what we did-were literally fake.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNurses are scarred.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd unless people understand what we went through and commit to never let anyone lie in the future about public health, we will never become whole.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYear of the Nurse: A Covid-19 Pandemic Memoir is Cassandra Alexander's poignant effort to come to grips with suicidal ideation and PTSD after being a covid nurse in an ICU in 2020. Comprised of original essays and her chronological journals, tweets, and emails as she attempted to save lives, including her own-this book will let you experience nursing from the bedside.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCome and understand what it was like.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cassandra Alexander\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1955825270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781955825276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Caskara Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/03\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d","brand":"Cassandra Alexander","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44077043515647,"sku":"9781955825276","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5268209e-960d-4d5d-ad40-723ca557c927.jpg?v=1685468020","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/year-of-the-nurse-cassandra-alexander-9781955825276","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}