--- product_id: 64991854 title: "The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story" brand: "christie watson" price: "€ 51.92" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.it/products/64991854-the-language-of-kindness-a-nurses-story store_origin: IT region: Italy --- # The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story **Brand:** christie watson **Price:** € 51.92 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story by christie watson - **How much does it cost?** € 51.92 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.it](https://www.desertcart.it/products/64991854-the-language-of-kindness-a-nurses-story) ## Best For - christie watson enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted christie watson brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Beautifully Written. Precise Language Choices. Honest Storytelling. Ms. Watson Can Write. *by C***C on Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2018* Beautifully Written. Precise Language Choices. Honest Storytelling. Ms. Watson Can Write."The Language of Kindness" is that rare memoir that makes one wonder why the literary community fawns over Karl Ove Knausgaard and Elena Ferrante. Literature is a church. It is found not when a few gather to worship but when writing craft meets narrative truth.My wife is a nurse. Not only a nurse, but a nurse of great competence. She elicits one's trust in seconds. I am not biased. These are things others say about her. She scored well for her MCAT. But time and even prevented her from attending Medical School. In this, her patients have lucked out. I bought this memoir for her. She adored it. Then I discovered this tidy, specific book, one that does a fair job even of explicating the accomplishments of a certain Miss Nightengals, who in a real way set the parameters of this too overlooked profession.Nursing truly is a calling. There are important, no, vital members of the healthcare community. The smart ones save your lives from inexperienced residents and narcissistic doctors all the time -- and my wife would be among the first to point out that many, especially in Los Angeles or the DC Metro area -- are extremely talented. My wife is a cardio-thoracic ICU nurse. But she has served across the board, and from PACU to NICU to the ER, she has seen it all, and Christie Watson has shed light on much of it, from showing the line of possible career realities that led her to her calling to providing one with a fine set of scenes that tell the story of one man's struggle with mental illness, to the glories Ms. Watson has known in midwifery. Fine, fine work. Godspeed. Read it if you have never contemplated the field. This, especially, is the sort of reading in which I learn something - while being gripped by the story told. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Lovely Book About A Most Underestimated Profession *by C***K on Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2019* ""The Language of Kindness" is a memoir of two decades of nursing by a British woman who has now turned to professional writing (as well she should, based on the ability demonstrated in this book). More than anything else, Ms. Watson's book is about love that cares: for her patients, their families, her colleagues, and her former profession. Highly anecdotal, escorting us from her fainting at the sight of her own blood while a student in phlebotomy, through her travels in pediatric wards (where some heartbreaking tableau await), operating rooms, and other medical units, up to her own father's final days, when he receives hospice care from another superlative nurse.While Ms. Watson knows how to render a scene vividly, the book lacks the straight through-line that I appreciate in the works of Atul Gawande. Thus, when she digresses to the history of nursing and its scholarly investigation, the result is just that: digressive. The distance the reader must leap from some chapters to others can also distract. That said, there's no denying this book's power and importance. Like Gawande, Watson helps us to understand and better to appreciate not merely the science but the heart of medicine, practiced by fallible humans who daily perform acts of extraordinary kindness. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Christie Watson tells of her twenty year nursing career in English hospitals. *by M***N on Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2018* Ms. Watson shares her own feelings along with detailed descriptions of events and drew me into her story with clear explanations and her knowledge of procedures and disease processes. I wish she had included the anxiety nurses experience over the way in which they can be unexpectedly “pulled” from one department to another as the hospital census demands. Each department has a unique layout and, although the basics of nursing are the same, there are different aspects to look for and chart in different types of nursing. The prospect of this happening caused me great anxiety and made it difficult to plan my work during my thirty years as a nurse in Tennessee hospitals. Both Ms. Watson and I enjoyed our nursing careers and felt that we received more from our patients than we were able to give to them.Margaret S. 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