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An edition of The comfort garden (2011)

The comfort garden

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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.

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Fresh Pond Press
Language
English
Pages
364

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Subjects
Psychic trauma, Psychiatric Nursing, Psychology, Nurse-Patient Relations, Crisis intervention (Mental health services), Trauma Centers, Methods, Post-traumatic stress disorder, Treatment, Professional Burnout, Psychiatric nursing, Psychotherapy, Traumatology, Crisis Intervention, Psychiatric nurses, Biography, Personal Narratives

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The comfort garden: tales from the trauma unit
2011, Fresh Pond Press
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Table of 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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San Francisco
Other Titles
Tales from the trauma unit

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Dewey Decimal Class
616.8521
Library of Congress
RC552.P67 B37 2011, RC440 .B2755 2011

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Pagination
xiii, 364 , xiv-xv p. ;
Number of pages
364

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OL26344553M
Internet Archive
isbn_9780984496549
ISBN 10
0984496548
ISBN 13
9780984496549
LCCN
2010924787
OCLC/WorldCat
731000384

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