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The resources in this Guide have been carefully selected in collaboration with Library and Branch staff.
Recently added titles to the ANMF library collection are:
Head on : how Victorian nurses and midwives confronted COVID by
‘The stories in this book are at once haunting and inspirational. Haunting because the struggles, the pain, the loss and grief, the fear and anxiety are all too real and still too close. Yet inspirational because one cannot help but see the deep commitment to care, the dedication in the face of overwhelming circumstances, and the profoundly human responses to the devastating events that played out over months and then years.’ - Victorian Chief Health Officer Professor Brett Sutton
A collection of stories, told by nurses and midwives, about what it was like to work through the first three years of the COVID-19 pandemic in healthcare services across the Australian state of Victoria. These stories, by members of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (Victorian Branch), capture what they saw, what they felt, what they did, what they didn't do, what they changed and what they couldn't change - as they cared for the Victorian community (and continue to care) through a prolonged period of unprecedented demand and a once-in-a-century event. Stories were written by registered and enrolled nurses, midwives, nursing and midwifery students and nursing and midwifery students working in student employment models (RUSONs and RUSOMs).
Back to Bangka : searching for the truth about a wartime massacre by
Georgina Banks searches for the truth of what happened to her Great Aunt ' Bud' , killed in the Second World War.Bangka Strait, Indonesia, 1942. Allied ships are evacuating thousands in flight from Singapore, the island having fallen to Japanese Imperial forces. Facing terrifying assaults by fighter planes, one ship, the Vyner Brooke, is badly bombed and sinks. Its survivors swim or paddle for hours to the nearest land, a beach on Bangka Island, parched, many dreadfully injured.One of the survivors is Australian Army nurse Dorothy ' Bud' Elmes, the great-aunt of Georgina Banks. Bud makes it to the island, where she, colleagues and a matron tend to the wounded as a plan is formulated. But it is soon discovered the place is occupied by Japanese forces, and two days later they arrive on the beach.Seventy-five years on, Georgina receives an invitation to a memorial service for her great-aunt.
And finally : matters of life and death by
From the bestselling neurosurgeon and author of Do No Harm, an unflinching and deeply personal exploration of death, life and neuroscience. As a neurosurgeon, I lived in a world filled with fear and suffering, death and cancer. But rarely, if ever, did I think about what it would be like if what I witnessed at work every day happened to me. This book is the story of how I became a patient myself. As a retired brain surgeon, Henry Marsh thought he understood illness, but he was unprepared for the impact of his diagnosis of advanced cancer. And Finally explores what happens when someone who has spent a lifetime on the frontline of life and death finds himself contemplating what might be his own death sentence. As he navigates the bewildering transition from doctor to patient, he is haunted by past failures and projects yet to be completed, and frustrated by the inconveniences of illness and old age. But he is also more entranced than ever by the mysteries of science and the brain, the beauty of the natural world and his love for his family. Elegiac, candid, luminous and poignant, And Finally is ultimately not so much a book about death, but a book about life and what matters in the end. As a retired brain surgeon, Henry Marsh thought he understood illness, but he was unprepared for the impact of his diagnosis of advanced cancer. And Finally explores what happens when someone who has spent a lifetime on the frontline of life and death finds himself contemplating what might be his own death sentence.
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