The comfort garden : tales from the trauma unit

Resource Information

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Label

The comfort garden : tales from the trauma unit

Title remainder

tales from the trauma unit

Statement of responsibility

Laurie Barkin

Title variation

Tales from the trauma unit

Creator

• Barkin, Laurie

Subject

• 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

Genre

• Personal Narratives

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

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