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A review by spaceonthebookcase
Untold Stories of Nurses: The COVID-19 pandemic by Kate Kalagher
5.0
Exhausted. Lonely. Isolated. Frustrated.
The book, Untold Stories of Nurses: The COVID-19 Pandemic, is only 102 pages and frankly, didn’t take me very long to read in terms of minutes, however, the powerful stories and first person accounts from all over the globe are not going to leave me anytime soon.
I would consider myself someone who likes information. My favorite tagline is that I’d rather be right than popular, so when COVID-19 first entered the world stage I sought information. I wanted to know how bad things really were because I’m someone who likes to be prepared. My husband and I hold essential jobs, though not in the healthcare field, and we needed to know what we were up against. Still, despite the hours of reading and listening and researching I still learned information that I didn’t know before reading this book.
Each chapter of this book is a different nurse from a different part of the world and the story they want to share. I’m not one for spoilers but bring tissues to Chapter 8. I thought I was doing okay until that moment.
You will feel every emotion reading this story. Joy when you learn someone got to go home, anger when you hear how some nurses were treated even by staff within their own hospital and frustrating over the lack of preparedness. But still, these stories need to be told. History has to be remembered.
The book, Untold Stories of Nurses: The COVID-19 Pandemic, is only 102 pages and frankly, didn’t take me very long to read in terms of minutes, however, the powerful stories and first person accounts from all over the globe are not going to leave me anytime soon.
I would consider myself someone who likes information. My favorite tagline is that I’d rather be right than popular, so when COVID-19 first entered the world stage I sought information. I wanted to know how bad things really were because I’m someone who likes to be prepared. My husband and I hold essential jobs, though not in the healthcare field, and we needed to know what we were up against. Still, despite the hours of reading and listening and researching I still learned information that I didn’t know before reading this book.
Each chapter of this book is a different nurse from a different part of the world and the story they want to share. I’m not one for spoilers but bring tissues to Chapter 8. I thought I was doing okay until that moment.
You will feel every emotion reading this story. Joy when you learn someone got to go home, anger when you hear how some nurses were treated even by staff within their own hospital and frustrating over the lack of preparedness. But still, these stories need to be told. History has to be remembered.