With Our Loving Hands - 1199 Nursing Home Workers Tell Their Story
Edited by: Timothy Sheard
Synopsis: A collection of inspiring, moving and funny stories from 50 union nursing home workers, showcasing the gift their service brings to their clients every day. In this book, nursing home workers who care for the elderly and infirm tell their stories. These essential caregivers are too often ignored or disrespected. Yet their stories show us how their challenging work is so often motivated by love. Family members and friends who are admitted for long term care and perhaps, for the last stage of life, are comforted by these courageous workers whose loving hands hold them in their long, lonely night.
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Edited by: Timothy Sheard
Synopsis: A collection of inspiring, moving and funny stories from 50 union nursing home workers, showcasing the gift their service brings to their clients every day. In this book, nursing home workers who care for the elderly and infirm tell their stories. These essential caregivers are too often ignored or disrespected. Yet their stories show us how their challenging work is so often motivated by love. Family members and friends who are admitted for long term care and perhaps, for the last stage of life, are comforted by these courageous workers whose loving hands hold them in their long, lonely night.
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Edited by: Timothy Sheard
Synopsis: A collection of inspiring, moving and funny stories from 50 union nursing home workers, showcasing the gift their service brings to their clients every day. In this book, nursing home workers who care for the elderly and infirm tell their stories. These essential caregivers are too often ignored or disrespected. Yet their stories show us how their challenging work is so often motivated by love. Family members and friends who are admitted for long term care and perhaps, for the last stage of life, are comforted by these courageous workers whose loving hands hold them in their long, lonely night.
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Product details
Publisher : Hard Ball Press (October 25, 2014)
Language : English
Paperback : 172 pages
ISBN-10 : 0991163923
ISBN-13 : 978-0991163922
Item Weight : 8.8 ounces
Dimensions : 5 x 0.39 x 8 inches
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“The anthology of vignettes is published by Hardball Press and edited by Tim Sheard. In his introduction to the book he says, “when workers are given the time to write, read aloud and discuss their stories, the value of their work is reaffirmed.” The book was the result of a collaboration between Sheard, who in addition to being a writer and publisher is himself a health care worker, and Steve Bender, the executive director of the union’s Training Fund... As the title says, these are stories about work, but work of a special kind, because in addition to training and practical skills a requirement of the job is kindness. Some of the stories are also about the writers’ personal lives and struggles, their family situations and the reasons they become nursing home workers.”