Critical Care (Mercy Hospital, Book 1)
by Candace Calvert
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Book Summary Information
Author: Candace CalvertEdition: Kindle Edition
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Kindle eBook
Published: 2009-05-06
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 302
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Book Reviews of Critical Care (Mercy Hospital, Book 1)
Book Review: CISM in a Novel? No way! Yes Way!
Summary: 5 Stars
Was it Sherlock Holmes or Alice in Wonderland who told me to believe six impossible things before breakfast ... sounds sort of Cheshire Cat or Mad Hatter, so It must have been from Alice.
Even if it is after breakfast, here's the impossible thing.
I liked this book.
A lot.
Why should that be impossible? Because Critical Care is a romance. And oh no, not just a romance. A Christian romance. With nurses and doctors.
It's funny, it's quirky, it's heartwrenchingly sad. People learn about themselves, suffer losses, achieve more than they expected, and gain strength in themselves, and in God. The dialog is good and rings true, paced like normal conversation, very realistic. Dialog is hard to get right, as is balancing external and internal dialog.
And, even more surprising ... this is the first time I've ever picked up a novel that has, in the first chapter, a discussion of a Critical Incident Stress Debriefing.
Why is that surprising?
Because you don't see stuff like that in novels. You barely see it on television, on shows with cops and firefighters and doctors and nurses. And when you DO hear about it, there's a mention in passing, it's treated with derision, and they do it wrong. I am a Critical Incident Stress Management Provider. I know the process, I know how it functions, and how it helps.
Ms. Calvert does it right. Mostly. I'll give a pass on the small inaccuracies ... maybe she's not a provider herself, or the choices she made were for flow of the story. But mostly, she's dead on. Because I've been doing this for some time, I saw the not-so-little clues, the exaggerated startle responses, the caffeine jones, the little signs that pointed to how close to compassion fatigue and burnout the ER staff were running. The faint crispy scent underlying the disinfectant wasn't burn victims ... it was the staff. There was a realism to those interactions.
Thank you, Ms. Calvert.
Summary of Critical Care (Mercy Hospital, Book 1)
After her brother dies in a trauma room, nurse Claire Avery can no longer face the ER. She's determined to make a fresh start--new hospital, new career in nursing education--move forward, no turning back. But her plans fall apart when she's called to offer stress counseling for medical staff after a heartbreaking day care center explosion. Worse, she's forced back to the ER, where she clashes with Logan Caldwell, a doctor who believes touchy-feely counseling is a waste of time. He demands his staff be as tough as he is. Yet he finds himself drawn to this nurse educator . . . who just might teach him the true meaning of healing.Fiction & Poetry Books
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