Nurse Author Theresa Brown on When a Nurse Becomes a Patient - a podcast by Keith Carlson, RN, BSN, NC-BC

On episode 375 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews renowned NY Times bestselling nurse author Theresa Brown, PhD, BSN, RN regarding her latest memoir, Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient. In this beautiful and powerful book, Theresa describes an encounter with her own diagnosis of breast cancer and the often maddening American healthcare system, including a shocking lack of compassion, and egregiously poor communication on the part of healthcare professionals she encountered on her journey. Join Keith and Theresa for a personal and poignant discussion of life on the other side of the stethoscope.
Theresa Brown is a nurse and writer who lives in Pittsburgh. Her third book — Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient — was published in April 2022. It explores her diagnosis of and treatment for breast cancer in the context of her own nursing work. Her book, The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives, was a New York Times Bestseller.Theresa has been a frequent contributor to the New York Times and her writing has appeared on CNN.com, in The American Journal of Nursing, The Journal of the American Medical Association, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Theresa has been a guest on MSNBC Live and NPR’s Fresh Air. Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between is her first book that chronicles her initial year of nursing, and has been adopted as a textbook by schools of nursing across the country.
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Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media manager and newsletter wrangler.This episode is sponsored by Picmonic,com, and TrueLearn.com, where nursing students can prepare for the NCLEX licensing exam by accessing TrueLearn's hundreds of questions written by content experts and mapped to the NCLEX-RN Blueprint, as well as Picmonic's memorable stories, characters, and mnemonics that assist in memorization and learning the tough topics. Check out Picmonic.com and TrueLearn.com and use discount code NURSEKEITH for 20% off of either or both services!

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