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Author: Sherry Jones Mayo Publisher: Loving Healing Press ISBN: 1932690964 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 216
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Mayo, an Emergency Medical Technician, Emergency Room Nurse, and an on-scene critical incident debriefer after Hurricane Katrina, details a progression from innocence to enlightened caregiver to burnout, providing personal and professional glimpses into each stage.
Author: Sherry Lynn Jones Publisher: Modern History Press ISBN: 1615995536 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 166
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More True Stories from EMS and the ER More Confessions shares the raw and honest feelings of emergency service professionals through true 'story behind the story' revelations. Disclosing experiences from both sides of the gurney, Sherry and other EMS, ER, paramilitary, and firefighter responders walk you along their fragile line of sanity. Using humor as a life raft during perfect storms, workers reflect upon how they endure and survive personal and professional tragedy while trying not to care too much, and what happens when they fail in that attempt. A graduate student in psychology, Sherry is a paramedic, trauma nurse, and crisis interventionist who led a national paramilitary crisis response team and continues conducting crisis management training throughout the U.S. Emergency Service Professionals Praise More Confessions "Once again, Sherry brings to life the overlooked or, too often, over-hyped world of the emergency services for all to experience. She does so with a vitality and spirit that makes her prose almost poetic. If you want to glimpse the amazing world of EMS from 'behind the curtain, ' More Confessions is for you. Highest recommendations." --Rev. Don Brown, B.A., M.Div., Flight Paramedic (retired), Chaplain, Lt. Col., CAP (retired); Pastor, First United Methodist Church, Grand Saline, TX "More Confessions will take you to the edge of first responder insanity with honesty and integrity. Sherry has once again opened our world to the reader by cleverly describing the unbelievable experiences that we have every day. This book is the real deal!" --Peter Volkmann, MSW, EMT, Chief-Stockport NY Police Department. "Through the venue of real and personable human experience stories, Sherry's More Confessions is a powerfully written sequel that provides key insights into the need for those who work in emergency and disaster response, as well as their families, to actively and purposely recognize and consistently address their physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. All who read this book will be touched deeply in some way." --Harvey J. Burnett, Jr., PhD, LP, President, Michigan Crisis Response Association Sergeant, Buchanan Police Department Assistant Professor of Psychology, Behavioral Sciences Dept., Andrews University From the Reflections of America Series at Modern History Press www.ModernHistoryPress.com Medical: Allied Health Services - Emergency Medical Services
Author: Sherry Jones Mayo Publisher: ISBN: 9781615995554 Category : Emergency medical technicians Languages : en Pages :
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"Southeast Michigan nurse Sherry Lynn Jones portrays events in her career in emergency medicine including venues such as Civil Air Patrol (CAP), hospital emergency rooms, Emergency Medical Services (EMS), prisons, and crisis/disaster responses such as Hurricane Katrina. Emphasis on the need for peer-support and self-care for all types of responders"--
Author: Sherry Lynn Jones Publisher: Modern History Press ISBN: 9781615995547 Category : Languages : en Pages : 166
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More Confessions shares the raw feelings of emergency service professionals through true 'story behind the story' revelations. Disclosing experiences from both sides of the gurney. EMS, ER, paramilitary, and firefighters share stories
Author: Sherry Jones Mayo Publisher: Modern History Press ISBN: 9781615993437 Category : Emergency medical technicians Languages : en Pages : 237
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Ride in the back of the ambulance with Sherry Lynn Jones Share the innermost feelings of emergency services workers as they encounter trauma, tragedy, redemption, and even a little humor. Sherry Lynn Jones has been an Emergency Medical Technician, Emergency Room Nurse, prison healthcare practitioner, and an on-scene critical incident debriefer. Most people who have observed or experienced physical, mental or emotional crisis have single perspectives. This book allows readers to stand on both sides of the gurney; it details a progression from innocence to enlightened caregiver to burnout, glimp.
Author: Mimi Goldman Publisher: Page Publishing Inc ISBN: 1635681251 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 249
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The names were changed to ensure the privacy and confidentiality of the people in this nonfiction work. The author has written under a pen name to further conceal the identities of the subjects in her stories. Mimi Goldman worked twenty years as a Registered Nurse, predominately ER and Trauma, and four years as a Forensic Coroner Investigator. Throughout her career she chronicled her experiences and cases in a journal. Working in the ER's and in Forensics has revealed the human carnage wrought by accidents, shootings and natural disasters. Each chapter presents its own unique story that will take you from laughter to sadness to mortification. While you journey with the author, you will see a glimpse of the tragedy and the psychological terror she encountered by doing her job. If you are considering a career as a registered nurse or a forensic investigator, this book gives you a rare insight based on true cases and experiences of the author. If you think you have the stomach for it, you just might be cut out to be a TRAUMA JUNKIE.
Author: Janice Hudson Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 262
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""Trauma Junkie gives us a view over the flight nurse's shoulder from liftoff until the patient is delivered to the hospital and the agonizing minutes in between. These fascinating true stories are impossible to put down.""--James M. Betts, MD, Chief of Department of Surgery and Director of Trauma Services, Children's Hospital, Oakland ""An exciting portrayal of emergency nursing."" -- Library Journal ""Fast-paced nonfiction that reads like an adventure story."" -- School Library Journal In Trauma Junkie, readers accompany veteran flight nurse Janice Hudson as she races in response.
Author: Mary K. Armstrong Publisher: BPS Books ISBN: 1926645464 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 242
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To her surprise, dismay, and eventually relief, Mary Armstrong, a therapist with over thirty years of experience helping people heal from childhood trauma, uncovered her own history of child sexual abuse at the hands of her grandfather and father. As she tells her harrowing but heroic tale, she casts light as never before on the issue of repressed memories and the invisible wounds left by childhood trauma.