TY - BOOK AU - Watson,Christie TI - The language of kindness: a nurse's story SN - 9781784706883 (pbk.) : PY - 2019/// CY - London PB - Vintage Books KW - Nursing KW - Compassion KW - Resilience KW - Nurse-patient relations KW - Biography N1 - Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, 2018 N2 - Christie Watson was a nurse for twenty years. Taking us from birth to death and from A&E to the mortuary, The Language of Kindness is an astounding account of a profession defined by acts of care, compassion and kindness. We watch Christie as she nurses a premature baby who has miraculously made it through the night, we stand by her side during her patient’s agonising heart-lung transplant, and we hold our breath as she washes the hair of a child fatally injured in a fire, attempting to remove the toxic smell of smoke before the grieving family arrive. In our most extreme moments, when life is lived most intensely, Christie is with us. She is a guide, mentor and friend. And in these dark days of division and isolationism, she encourages us all to stretch out a hand ER -