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The comfort garden : tales from the trauma unit, Laurie Barkin

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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
Work
Publication
Edition
1st ed.
Extent
1 online resource (xiii, 364 , xiv-xv pages)
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
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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
Creator
Subject
Genre
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
  • 2012 C-345
  • WZ 100
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • 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
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The comfort garden : tales from the trauma unit, Laurie Barkin
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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
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Publication
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

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