{"product_id":"journal-of-a-black-queer-nurse","title":"Journal Of A Black Queer Nurse By Journal Of A Black Queer Nurse","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this searing, honest memoir, a Black queer emergency-room nurse works the front lines of care during COVID-19.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBritney Daniels is a Black, masculine-presenting, tattooed lesbian from a working-class background. For the last five years, she has been working as an emergency-room nurse. She began \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eJournal of a Black Queer Nurse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e as a personal diary, a tool to heal from the day-to-day traumas of seeing too much and caring too much.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eHilarious, gut-wrenching, and infuriating by turns, these stories are told from the perspective of a deeply empathetic, no-nonsense young nurse, who highlights the way race, inequality, and a profit-driven healthcare system make the hospital a place where systemic racism is lived. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eWhether it is giving one’s own clothes to a homeless patient, sticking up for patients of color in the face of indifference from white doctors and nurses, or nursing one’s own back pain accrued from transporting too many bodies as the morgues overflowed during the pandemic, \u003ci\u003eJournal of a Black Queer Nurse\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the ways in which care is much more than treating a physical body and how the commitment to real care—care that involves listening to and understanding patients in a deeper sense—demands nurses, especially nurses of color, must also be warriors.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57571998564734,"sku":"NW9781942173779","price":13.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781942173779.jpg?v=1785139179","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/journal-of-a-black-queer-nurse","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}