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Confessions of a Trauma Junkie

My Life as a Nurse Paramedic, 2nd Edition

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Confessions of a Trauma Junkie

By: Sherry Lynn Jones
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Ride in the back of the ambulance with Sherry Lynn Jones.

Share the innermost feelings of emergency services workers as they encounter trauma, tragedy, redemption, and even a little humor. Sherry Lynn Jones has been an emergency medical technician, emergency room nurse, prison healthcare practitioner, and an on-scene critical incident debriefer. Most people who have observed or experienced physical, mental, or emotional crisis have single perspectives. This audiobook allows listeners to stand on both sides of the gurney; it details a progression from innocence to enlightened caregiver to burnout, glimpsing into each stage personally and professionally.

"Corrections" the third realm of emergency care behind layers of concrete and barbed wire. Join in the dangers, challenges, and truth-is-stranger-than-fiction humor of this updated and revised second edition of Confessions of a Trauma Junkie. In addition to stories from the streets and ERs, medics, nurses, and corrections officers share perceptions and coping skills from the other side of prisons' cuffs and clanging metal doors.

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Critic reviews

"A must read for those who choose to subject themselves to life at its best and at its worst. Sherry offers insight in the Emergency Response business that most people cannot imagine." (Maj. Gen. Richard L. Bowling, former Commanding General, USAF Auxiliary (CAP))

"Sherry Lynn Jones shares experiences and unique personal insights of first responders. Told with poetry, sensitivity and a touch of humor at times, all are real, providing views into realities EMTs, Nurses, and other first responders encounter. Recommended reading for anyone working with trauma, crises, critical incidents in any profession." (George W. Doherty, MS, LPC, president, Rocky Mountain Region Disaster Mental Health Institute)
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I've come back to this book a few times and I am still trying to understand how I feel. In a good way. It's left me thinking over how we treat medical professionals and I don't think I could do it as a job, but it is interesting to hear about and learn about what people do in their day-to-day life. It can be a little graphic at times, so weak stomachs may find it difficult, but I had no problem in general. It is interesting and it feels honest and real, which I'm sure was the goal.

*I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

An interesting look into a nurse paramedic's life

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Gives an insight into how those at the front line of medical care cope with an impossible job and how it changes them. Also the eye opening behaviour of the people who come to them for help.

Sometimes hard to listen to, but in a good way.

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Honest and frank career reviewed by a truly inspirational health care professional. Recommend to anyone who is curious about what health care work is like globally.

Brutally honest, amazing and enthralling

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At 10 hrs, this was far too long for what we got. There were a few chapters which related emergency incidents, which were interesting. However, the majority was tainted by cherry-picked religiosity (i.e. bad things happen but when something good happens we can attribute it to God and/or Angels). Entire chapters were devoted to philosophical meanderings. If I'd known it had such a strong religious component, I wouldn't have started the book.

Very little here was specific to trauma teams and can be considered par for the course when dealing with people.

We are presented with chapter after chapter of judgement (which being from a subjective perspective is to be expected). However, we are then presented with a chapter on how a non-judgemental attitude is needed and how the MC fits the bill perfectly.

By the end of the book, we are left in no doubt that the MC and her children are by far the most intelligent, caring, skilled people on the planet and aren't appreciated as the truly marvelous individuals they are. Much of this is accomplished by belittling other professions and/or other people in the same profession.

Hmm

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could've been better. lots of judgement, not enough medicine for me. yes, Christianity is a spiritual guide for many, but there's so much religiosity that it started dragging out.

hits and misses but mostly misses

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