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Book Synopsis2010 PROSE Award Winner for Nursing & Allied Health Sciences!
2010 AJN Book of the Year Award Winner in Public Interest and Creative Works!
The accounts are vivid, colorful, descriptive, intense, and often horrific and give cross-sectional views of life in the trenches during this disastervñThis book is a rich primary source for both historians and disaster preparedness planners. It''s not only a tribute to the courage of the nurses, but should also serve as a guide for policy planners hoping to avoid less than optimal responses to future crises.--AJN
[T]he book...fascinates simply for its raw documentation of the dreadful events and conditions endured by nurses, doctors, and ancillary staff as they struggled to care for critically ill patients without electricity, running water, air conditioning systems, and other resources. Five years after the levees broke, the horror and chaos of Katrina is still fresh in these accounts. Through the
