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Tilda Shalof had been taking care of critically ill patients in an intensive care unit for more than twenty-five years, but taking care of herself had never been a priority. That is, until she could no longer ignore her extreme fatigue, shortness of breath, and crushing chest pains. When the results came in, it was time to face the music: Tilda required immediate open-heart surgery to replace a defective valve and to repair damage done to this vital organ. Opening My Heart: A Journey from Nurse to Patient and Back Again PDF
Tilda’s story takes readers from the diagnosis through all her fears and concerns, the or, her stay in the icu, the cardiac ward, recovery at home, rehabilitation, and ultimately, her return to work in the hospital armed with new insights on the patient’s perspective. She learned more in her week-long stay as a patient than in all her years caring for the critically ill, especially about trust and working in partnership with her caregivers.
In Opening My Heart, Shalof expertly weaves recollections from her career and accounts of other nurses’ experiences into her own story, creating the perfect marriage between fascinating clinical detail and a personal journey of healing. Throughout it all is Shalof’s warm, friendly voice and humorous outlook. Nurses everywhere and anyone who’s ever been a hospital patient, or who is currently hospitalized or who might be one day (and those who love them!), will be empowered, enlightened, comforted, and entertained by this book.
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For students of all the branches of medicine and surgery and health professionals that aspire to be greater and better at their procedures and medications. A renowned book by those who have read it and learnt from it. Many have already ordered it and is on the way to their home. Whether you work in the USA, Canada, UK or anywhere around the world. If you are working as a health professional then this is a must read.. The most reviewed on book “Opening My Heart: A Journey from Nurse to Patient and Back Again PDF” is available for grabs now here on our website free. Whatever books, mainly textbooks we have in professional courses specially Medicine and surgery is a compendium in itself so understand one book you need to refer another 2-10 books. Beside this there are various other text material which needs to be mastered!! Only reference books are partially read but all other books have to be read, commanded and in fact read multiple times.
The Authors
TILDA SHALOF is an intensive care unit nurse with twenty-seven years of experience in Israel, New York, and Canada. She is the bestselling author of Camp Nurse: My Adventures at Summer Camp, The Making of a Nurse, and A Nurse’s Story: Life, Death, and In-Between in an Intensive Care Unit.
Dimensions and Characteristics of “Opening My Heart: A Journey from Nurse to Patient and Back Again PDF”
- Identification Number : B004J4WLD2
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart (April 26, 2011)
Publication date : April 26, 2011
Language : English
File size : 2768 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 330 pages
Lending : Not Enabled - Opening My Heart: A Journey from Nurse to Patient and Back Again PDF
Top reviews
The story doesn’t have the dramatic arc of “Making of a Nurse” Fanscannot get enough of Shalof
June 2, 2016
Good stories, but a little predictable and the pace of the book seems like it was made to match chronological time, stretched thin at times. Although others may disagree, I think there were some good opportunities to comment on healthcare in the U.S. She has good and bad things about the Canadian system, but not talking about the U.S. system is a little like refusing to acknowledge the elephant in the room. And what is up with her enthusiasm for Dr. Oz, who hasn’t met a supplement he didn’t like? For that matter there’s no discussion about pharmaceuticals, whether any are overprescribed or under-researched, and no praise for any breakthrough treatments either. She admits feeling the pull of painkillers when dealing with severe pain, but doesn’t take it further than that. So she’s human, and now she’s more sympathetic, unfortunately we’ve been over this territory repeatedly from her diagnosis through treatment. How about treatment (or the woeful lack thereof) for addicts? The Oxycontin epidemic? I know it’s spread up north. So many topical issues that she is in a position to say something about, but she stays on the sidelines. Perhaps it’s unfair to criticize the book for what its not. But what is there is, is a good idea spread thin, and a bit disappointing.
SJK-RN
From another RN
May 30, 2014
Loved this book. I too am a RN, and also suffered from a life-threatening event. Ended up on a ventilator in ICU, but remember most of it. One important thing is the reality of PTSD afterwards. This book is well written, and I cried through a lot of it, empathizing with her. I’m still in the recovery stages, but with her help, I know I will make it. Being a patient does make you a better nurse, no matter how good of a nurse you are. Until you’ve been there, you can’t fully understand!
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Educatio for Non- Medical People
September 27, 2015
Really good. Not 5 stars becauset it got a bit long in parts. Being a nurse myself, I found no flaws in her explanation of different situations, and I especially like how she is letting readers know how nurses feel about their patients and want the very best care and concern for them. I had the same PTSD when I returned home following harrowing bowel surgery, but thank God I did not fall into a depression.
Erika
I’m glad Tilda had such great pain relief from the narcotics …
December 16, 2014
A nurse will always feel more, listen more and care more as I believe Tilda did after surviving this surgery. I’m glad Tilda had such great pain relief from the narcotics with her not describing much or any side effects. As for the electronic phone checkups, that should have been a live Homehealth nurse to follow, and could have avoided some of her anxiety, even if she had come just twice a week.
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