Confessions of a Trauma Junkie: My Life as a Nurse Paramedic
By Sherry Lynn Jones
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Ride in the back of the ambulance with Sherry Jones Mayo
Share the innermost feelings of emergency services workers as they encounter trauma, tragedy, redemption, and even a little humor. Sherry Lynn Jones has been an Emergency Medical Technician, Emergency Room Nurse, prison healthcare practitioner, and an on-scene critical incident debriefer. Most people who have observed or experienced physical, mental or emotional crisis have single perspectives. This book allows readers to stand on both sides of the gurney; it details a progression from innocence to enlightened caregiver to burnout, glimpsing into each stage personally and professionally.
"Corrections" the third realm of emergency care behind layers of concrete and barbed wire. Join in the dangers, challenges, and truth-is-stranger-than-fiction humor of this updated and revised second edition of Confessions of a Trauma Junkie. In addition to stories from the streets and ERs, medics, nurses, and corrections officers share perceptions and coping skills from the other side of prisons' cuffs and clanging metal door
Share the innermost feelings of emergency services workers as they encounter trauma, tragedy, redemption, and even a little humor. Sherry Lynn Jones has been an Emergency Medical Technician, Emergency Room Nurse, prison healthcare practitioner, and an on-scene critical incident debriefer. Most people who have observed or experienced physical, mental or emotional crisis have single perspectives. This book allows readers to stand on both sides of the gurney; it details a progression from innocence to enlightened caregiver to burnout, glimpsing into each stage personally and professionally.
"Corrections" the third realm of emergency care behind layers of concrete and barbed wire. Join in the dangers, challenges, and truth-is-stranger-than-fiction humor of this updated and revised second edition of Confessions of a Trauma Junkie. In addition to stories from the streets and ERs, medics, nurses, and corrections officers share perceptions and coping skills from the other side of prisons' cuffs and clanging metal door
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MY REVIEW
I enjoyed
getting a small inside look into the lives of the people that are there when
our lives depend on it. The author was straight forward and didn’t mince her
words or descriptions of the things trauma workers see and do every day. It is
truly a calling. I know I could not do it. The read was at times intense. The
author understood the need to switch at times from severe to humor, and I
appreciated that. Plus the dark humor included was entertaining.
It was
refreshing to read the author’s account of the behind the scene response team to
Hurricane Katrina’s disaster in Mississippi and the graciousness of the people in
the face of their tragedy. Being from that state, I know this first hand.
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**The above opinions are 100% my own, whether I purchased the book or it was given to me to review.
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