The courage to care - Christie Watson

'An inspiring book for our challenging times' Olivia Coleman


Nurses have never been more important.


We benefit from their expertise in our hospitals and beyond: in our
schools, on our streets, in prisons, hospices and care homes. When we feel
most alone, nurses remind us that we are not alone at all.


In The Courage to Care bestselling
author Christie Watson reveals the remarkable extent of nurses' work:


- A community mental-health nurse choreographs support for a man suffering
from severe depression

- A teen with stab wounds is treated by the critical-care team; his school
nurse visits and he drops the bravado

- A pregnant woman loses frightening amounts of blood following a car
accident; it is a military nurse who synchronises the emergency department
into immaculate order and focus.


Christie makes a further discovery: that, time and again, it is patients
and their families - including her own - who show exceptional strength in the
most challenging times. We are all deserving of compassion, and as we share
in each other's suffering, Christie Watson shows us how we can find courage
too. The courage to care.


'Let's be thankful for wonderful nurses - and
writers - like Christie Watson' Jacqueline Wilson


'Christie Watson writes with the fullness of her heart to give us insight
into the world of patients and nursing, inspiring us to recognise it is how
we treat people, how we speak and respond to them, as well as what we do,
that heals' Julia Samuel