The Resource The comfort garden : tales from the trauma unit, Laurie Barkin
The comfort garden : tales from the trauma unit, Laurie Barkin
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The item The comfort garden : tales from the trauma unit, Laurie Barkin represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Internet Archive - Open Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
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- The Comfort Garden is Laurie Barkin's account of the five years she worked as a psychiatric nurse on the surgical/trauma unit at San Francisco General Hospital. Told against the backdrop of patients who survived motor vehicle accidents, falls, fires, fists, bullets, and knives, The Comfort Garden is a metaphor for the emotional support caregivers need. The story illuminates the issues of compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma that may develop in caregivers when exposure to tragedy becomes routine
- The Comfort Garden will appeal to health care professionals, firefighters, police, war veterans, social workers, journalists, students, and anyone whose life is touched by trauma
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiii, 364 , xiv-xv pages)
- Contents
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- Listening to trauma
- "As real as it gets"
- Beginnings
- "It ain't right"
- "For an easy fix, get yourself admitted to General Hospital"
- Maiden voyage
- "How can you bear to listen?"
- Balancing the big scale in the sky
- A walking time bomb
- Sweet interlude
- Support needed
- The bully
- Boundary violations
- Absorbing trauma
- Mismanaged care
- Limit-setting will not be tolerated in San Francisco
- Survivor guilt
- Holding up the weight of the world
- It has a name!
- The vacation
- The confrontation
- Nightmares
- "Who will take care of the caregivers?"
- "If I am not a nurse, who am I?"
- The last stroll
- Label
- The comfort garden : tales from the trauma unit
- Title
- The comfort garden
- Title remainder
- tales from the trauma unit
- Statement of responsibility
- Laurie Barkin
- Title variation
- Tales from the trauma unit
- Subject
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- Psychology -- Psychotherapy
- Nurse-Patient Relations
- Psychiatric nursing
- Crisis intervention (Mental health services)
- Crisis Intervention -- methods
- Burnout, Professional -- psychology
- Psychiatric Nursing
- Psychic trauma
- Personal Narratives
- Trauma Centers
- Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Treatment
- Traumatology
- Language
- eng
- Summary
-
- The Comfort Garden is Laurie Barkin's account of the five years she worked as a psychiatric nurse on the surgical/trauma unit at San Francisco General Hospital. Told against the backdrop of patients who survived motor vehicle accidents, falls, fires, fists, bullets, and knives, The Comfort Garden is a metaphor for the emotional support caregivers need. The story illuminates the issues of compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma that may develop in caregivers when exposure to tragedy becomes routine
- The Comfort Garden will appeal to health care professionals, firefighters, police, war veterans, social workers, journalists, students, and anyone whose life is touched by trauma
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Barkin, Laurie
- Dewey number
- 616.8521
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- RC552.P67
- LC item number
- B37 2011
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- NLM call number
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- 2012 C-345
- WZ 100
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Psychiatric Nursing
- Burnout, Professional
- Crisis Intervention
- Nurse-Patient Relations
- Trauma Centers
- Psychiatric nursing
- Psychic trauma
- Traumatology
- Psychology
- Crisis intervention (Mental health services)
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Label
- The comfort garden : tales from the trauma unit, Laurie Barkin
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Listening to trauma -- "As real as it gets" -- Beginnings -- "It ain't right" -- "For an easy fix, get yourself admitted to General Hospital" -- Maiden voyage -- "How can you bear to listen?" -- Balancing the big scale in the sky -- A walking time bomb -- Sweet interlude -- Support needed -- The bully -- Boundary violations -- Absorbing trauma -- Mismanaged care -- Limit-setting will not be tolerated in San Francisco -- Survivor guilt -- Holding up the weight of the world -- It has a name! -- The vacation -- The confrontation -- Nightmares -- "Who will take care of the caregivers?" -- "If I am not a nurse, who am I?" -- The last stroll
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiii, 364 , xiv-xv pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1035698096
- Label
- The comfort garden : tales from the trauma unit, Laurie Barkin
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Listening to trauma -- "As real as it gets" -- Beginnings -- "It ain't right" -- "For an easy fix, get yourself admitted to General Hospital" -- Maiden voyage -- "How can you bear to listen?" -- Balancing the big scale in the sky -- A walking time bomb -- Sweet interlude -- Support needed -- The bully -- Boundary violations -- Absorbing trauma -- Mismanaged care -- Limit-setting will not be tolerated in San Francisco -- Survivor guilt -- Holding up the weight of the world -- It has a name! -- The vacation -- The confrontation -- Nightmares -- "Who will take care of the caregivers?" -- "If I am not a nurse, who am I?" -- The last stroll
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiii, 364 , xiv-xv pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1035698096
Subject
- Burnout, Professional -- psychology
- Crisis Intervention -- methods
- Crisis intervention (Mental health services)
- Nurse-Patient Relations
- Personal Narratives
- Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Treatment
- Psychiatric Nursing
- Psychiatric nursing
- Psychic trauma
- Psychology -- Psychotherapy
- Trauma Centers
- Traumatology
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