Now 7 months later, I’ve been reading “The Courage to Care”, Christie Watson’s second non-fiction novel.Īs we learned in her first book, Christie worked as a nurse within the NHS for twenty years, starting aged seventeen. I read this book in March, at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. “ The Language of Kindness” by Christie Watson is an inspirational read about the reality of nursing. If you’d like to see what we discussed, you can catch up with the read-along in my Instagram story highlights. A group of us recently read the book over five days, stopping along the way to discuss.

I read this book as part of the read-along organised by Tandem Collective who kindly gifted me a hardback copy. We are all deserving of compassion, and as we share in each other’s suffering, Christie Watson shows us how we can find courage too. A pregnant woman loses frightening amounts of blood following a car accident it is a military nurse who synchronises the emergency department into immaculate order and focus.Ĭhristie makes a further discovery: that, time and again, it is patients and their families – including her own – who show exceptional strength in the most challenging times. A teen with stab wounds is treated by the critical-care team his school nurse visits and he drops the bravado. A community mental-health nurse choreographs support for a man suffering from severe depression. In The Courage to Care bestselling author Christie Watson reveals the remarkable extent of nurses’ work. When we feel most alone, nurses remind us that we are not alone at all. We benefit from their expertise in our hospitals and beyond: in our schools, on our streets, in prisons, hospices and care homes.

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