Year of the Nurse: A Covid-19 Pandemic Memoir Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Cassandra Alexander
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Year of the Nurse: A Covid-19 Pandemic Memoir by Cassandra Alexander Book Summary

This book is for anyone, nurse or otherwise, who is furious about how 2020 went down—and how 2021 is going.

On 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."

            That I felt like dying.

            That I would've rather died than still be at work.

            I am not alone.

            In 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.

            You can't send four million people into a wartime-equivalent situation without there being psychological consequences.

            And yet that's what America has done.

            Nurses spent a year battling a largely unknown assailant. Running low on gear. Haunted by the fact that we could 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.

            Nurses are scarred. And 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.

Year 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 last year from the bedside.

Come and understand what it was like.

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Book Name Year of the Nurse: A Covid-19 Pandemic Memoir
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A must-read. Thank you for telling your story & those of your co-workers. This book will stand throughout history as a window into the last-ditch efforts to save America from itself & Covid-19.

Necessary HARD truths. A view of what it was like to spend 2020 as a nurse in a covid-19 ICU. The decisions that we, the public, have made and are making during this pandemic have consequences, and our world’s health care workers are paying the price. They are doing the best, but they are truly suffering. This is difficult, but I believe necessary, reading.

A can’t miss history of Frontline Covid RN. A Chronological examination of Nursing behind the mask during the 2020-21 COVID-19 Pandemic Author Cassie Alexander’s book The Year of the Nurse is written using her Private Diary, Explanatory Essays, Personal Rants, Tweets, and Two Nurses Talking’s emails. Along the way are interspersed the evolving facts of the Pandemic, it’s spread, and public reactions. Heartbreaking and Horrifying to read. I received an advance copy from the author

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I want to hug the author. I reached the end of this book and all I want to do is howl in grief for the way we, as human beings, failed one another, and continue to do so even to this day. I want to hug the author, and every other medical professional who has been in the trenches fighting to get us here as safely as possible. This was a very raw, somewhat unfiltered, look at the last year and a bit of the author’s life. It made me cry and it made me want to break fragile things. I don’t know what the pandemic still has in store for us, but I can only hope that we have learned our lessons and will do better in the future. Somehow, I have this terrible feeling I’m going to be disappointed. The human spirit is a resilient thing, and so I remain hopeful. I received a complimentary copy of this book through Booksprout.

Year of the Nurse. I would recommend this book to all nurses and medical personnel, and anyone concerned about healthcare. It is truthful, angry and accurate. A lot of rebuilding is needed. It is a well written and very sad story. Nothing will change until realizing that healthcare workers are not dispensable. I just hope there will be some good ones left.

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The Year of the Nurse: A Covid-19 Pandemic Memoir book written by Cassandra Alexander was published on 19 July 2021, Monday in the Biographies & Memoirs category. A total of 203 readers of the book gave the book 4.5 points out of 5.

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