Critical Care Canadian Nurses Speak For Change Tpb: Canadian Nurses Speak for Change

 

Nurses are there for us throughout various stages of our lives. They hold us when we're born, care for us when we are sick or injured and provide comfort in the final moments of life. Nurses are undoubtedly the most integral part of the health-care system, yet for years they have remained unfairly invisible. Now, as cutbacks, job losses, overwork and lack of respect hurt this important profession, nurses are finally making their voices heard. Andre Picard's Critical Care: Canadian Nurses Speak for Change takes us to the front lines of the nursing crisis and reveals a deeply committed group of professionals as they intimate their hopes and concerns for a better future.

..award-winning journalist Andr Picard takes us to the front lines of nursing, profiling 40 nurses in hospitals, mental health facilities, research laboratories, patients'' homes and overseas war zones.

AndrT Picard is The Globe and MailÆs public health reporter. He is the author of the acclaimed The Gift of Death: Confronting CanadaÆs Tainted Blood Tragedy, which won the Science in Society Journalism Award and was shortlisted for both the Gordon Montador Award for Public Policy Journalism and the Q-SPELL Award for non-fiction. He also received a Michener Award for Meritorious Public Service Journalism and a National Newspaper Award nomination for his coverage of the scandal. One of the top public policy writers in Canada, AndrT Picard traveled across the country to research Critical Care and was offered unparalleled access to nurses on the job. He lives in Montreal.