Research Catalog

Title

When a child dies : how pediatric physicians and nurses cope / Robert S. McKelvey.

Author

McKelvey, Robert S.

Publication

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2006], ©2006.

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Holdings

Details

Description

viii, 319 pages; 22 cm

Subject

• Terminal care
• Children > Psychological aspects
• Physician and patient
• Children and death
• Terminally ill children
• Death
• Grief
• Adaptation, Psychological
• Medical Staff, Hospital > psychology
• Pediatric Nursing

Genre/Form

Personal Narrative.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-312) and index.

Contents

1. "The patient dies and that's it, next patient!" -- 2. "They came into the hospital with a daughter and they left with a small blue box of her stuff." -- 3. "What prevents us from being 'midwives of death,' something that has always been the physician's role?" -- 4. "What could you say? : it wasn't all right. Her beautiful only child was going to die." -- 5. "I can't remember a time that we got together and talked about our feelings. Men don't do that." -- 6. "It's my job to get families through the worst time in their lives." -- 7. "Coping with death is a process; you find your own way." -- 8. "It's not about me, it's about the patient." -- 9. "People don't know how long the pain from the death of a child lasts. It takes years." -- 10. "I love caring for young families and sick babies." -- 11. "I know I'm not God, but I always try to save them." -- 12. "No one understands what we do and no one can empathize with what we're going through except us." -- 13. "I've seen way too many dead babies." -- 14. "Being faced daily with the fact that life is temporary and unpredictable seriously affects the way I live." -- 15. "There's nothing right about a dead baby." -- 16. "You can't open your heart to everyone and be grieving all the time."

ISBN

• 0295986530 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780295986531 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006016880

OCLC

• ocm69391420
• 69391420
• SCSB-5319811

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries