Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between Free Audiobook Download by Theresa Brown

Theresa Brown has recently been a part of the Critical Care unit at Wichita's Saint Francis Hospital. She is new to nursing and hasn't yet had enough time to familiarize herself with the routine. But, soon things start to get weird. One patient is in a coma, another has a feeding tube in his stomach, and one individual is on life support. In all of these cases, Theresa starts questioning her training and everyday practice which causes her to experience both fear and relief.

Nurse Theresa Brown is just the newest nurse to be hired on the critical care floor of St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona. It's an intense and demanding environment that is unlike anything she has ever seen before, but it also comes with a lot of perks. The one perk that stands out for Theresa is that she can spend as much time as she likes with her young daughter, which is definitely something worth fighting for.

Theresa Brown's memoir centers around the story of Theresa Brown, a nurse who, after graduating from nursing school, comes to work with a hospice team. She was convinced that she knew what it meant to care for patients with advanced disease and to watch them die because of the lack of resources, but then one patient named Norah changed everything. Norah was a young woman in her late teens and early twenties who lived in Seattle. Shortly after being admitted to the hospital, her parents found out that they didn't have enough money for her treatment or even food. With no other options left, they had Norah moved into a hospice bed where she could be cared for by family members at home. Included in this book is how Theresa took on

Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between is the true story of Theresa Brown's life as she enters her twenties and becomes a nurse. Theresa has always dreamed of becoming a nurse and even though she works hard for it, she still grows up with a lot of uncertainty as to what exactly that means. After entering nursing school Theresa becomes overwhelmed with all of the changes that come with having new responsibility. The first two years are very tough with being constantly tested by her classmates while learning how to become more independent. Theresa is also dealing with the death of someone close to her that makes her question everything they had been taught in the classroom.

Theresa Brown, RN, is a new nurse who finds herself in the middle of a heart-wrenching patient's death. She experiences two periods of grief when she learns that her patient has died and she also experiences an exciting period of relief because she just started to work at a hospital where it is believed that her patient didn't die from natural causes. The hospital has been plagued with a series of mysterious deaths and accidents and Theresa would be one of the newest members to try to solve them all. Theresa faces death, both within herself and through nursing patients throughout her journey, but she also comes across many different types of life including love, humor, and even joy for those few moments in which she doesn't feel pain or fear.

"I couldn't be happier with how it's turned out. I'm going to love this book as much as I loved working on it." - Theresa Brown