First in line How COVID-19 placed me on the frontlines of a health care crisis
Book - 2024
The author relates her personal experiences and observations surrounding the health care system, first emigrating from Jamaica to the Bronx, New York, studying for and becoming a nurse, then advancing to become the Director of the critical care unit at Northwell Health's Long Island Jewish Medical Center, leading the unit through the Covid crisis and becoming the first person to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
- Subjects
- Genres
- Autobiographies
- Published
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New York ; Nashville :
Post Hill Press
[2024]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Physical Description
- viii, 262 pages ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9798888452769
9798888452776
- Note from Sandra
- Part I. The Big Picture
- Chapter 1. Medal Ceremony
- Chapter 2. Seven Men in Chronic Distress
- Chapter 3. My Anti-Vax Friends
- Part II. Coming to America
- Chapter 4. Coming to America
- Chapter 5. Life in the Boogie Down Bronx
- Chapter 6. Privilege to Pauper: My Father
- Chapter 7. Privilege to Pauper: My Weekend in the Hamptons
- Chapter 8. My First Virus
- Chapter 9. Teenage Angst
- Chapter 10. Playing Nurse
- Chapter 11. You Have to Run
- Chapter 12. RN in the Flesh
- Chapter 13. Motherhood and Marriage
- Chapter 14. Building Confidence as a Leader
- Chapter 15. Step by Step
- Chapter 16. Serving, Caring, Leading
- Part III. The COVID-19 Pandemic
- Chapter 17. The Longest Wave
- Chapter 18. Ringing in 2020
- Chapter 19. The First Wave
- Chapter 20. The Surge and Surge B
- Chapter 21. Good Times, Bad Times
- Chapter 22. Summer of 2020
- Chapter 23. Here Comes the Sun
- Chapter 24. On Nursing and Burnout
- Part IV. What We Are Up Against
- Chapter 25. A History of Mistrust
- Chapter 26. Taking the Vaccine
- Chapter 27. Chronic Disease in Our Communities
- Chapter 28. Widening Boundaries of Chronic Disease
- Chapter 29. My Experience with Implicit Bias in Health Care
- Chapter 30. Infant and Maternal Care: Protecting Mothers and Babies
- Chapter 31. Strong and Vulnerable: Carrying the Burden of Racism
- Chapter 32. I'm Not Your Superwoman: Burning the Cape
- Chapter 33. On Our Own: Not the Way It's Supposed to Be
- Part V. The Power of Possibility
- Chapter 34. Passing It Down, Paying It Forward
- Chapter 35. The Power of Possibility: From Grassroots to the Top
- Acknowledgments