The Comfort Garden
Laurie Barkin has worked on in-patient units and day treatment centers as a staff nurse and head nurse, as a psych liaison nurse, and as a psych nursing instructor at the University of San Francisco School of Nursing. She worked as a psychiatric nurse for 22 years before writing The Comfort Garden: Tales from the Trauma Unit. She has planned and led nurse retreats as well as staff support groups. She works as a consultant for the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, and provides support to psychiatric staff at San Francisco General Hospital.
The American Journal of Nursing (AJN) named The Comfort Garden: Tales from the Trauma Unit Book of the Year, and it also won a Nautilus award. Laurie Barkin's account of her five years as a psychiatric nurse on the surgical/trauma unit at San Francisco General Hospital is told in this story. The Comfort Garden is a metaphor for the emotional support caregivers require, set against the backdrop of patients who have survived car accidents, falls, fires, fists, bullets, and knives. The story sheds light on the issues of compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma that can arise in caregivers when tragedy becomes routine.
The Comfort Garden will appeal to health care professionals, firefighters, police officers, war veterans, social workers, journalists, students, and anyone else whose life has been affected by trauma.
Author: Laurie Barkin RN, MS
Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Comfort-Garden-Tales-Trauma-Unit/dp/0984496548/
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