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Winner of the 2013 Evergreen Book AwardBronze Medal for Health and Wellness The joys, fears, intimacies, and transcendent moments shared by a nurse and her patients The Hearts Truth should be required reading at every nursing school in the country. It offers a powerful and moving portrait of what it means to be a nurse. In writing that is of the highest quality, the reader is swept up in the drama of nursing and the compassion with which it is perfused. Richard Selzer, surgeon and author Davis has perfectly captured the broader arc of movement from awkward, insecure novice to competent, often morally exhausted, clinician, with a poets touch. Amy M. Haddad, PhD In her breathtaking collection of essays, Cortney Davis reveals the details of flesh that comprise the core of a nurses experience. Writing with the power, precision and careful observation of a seasoned clinician and the sensitivity of a poet, Davis guides the reader along the challenging path of her career. Richard Berlin, poet and physician Cortney Davis has an uncanny ability to give voice to the profound act of everyday nursing and its power in transforming the lives of people. Somehow, she sees the shadows and ghosts

Author

Cortney Davis

Publisher

The Kent State University Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781612775586

Subjects

Medical, Psychology, Nursing