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HomeHealthHealing: Theresa Brown’s Story

Healing: Theresa Brown’s Story

Theresa Brown, PhD, BSN, RN, author of Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient. Sourced from cityofasylum.org.

Theresa Brown, PhD, BSN, RN came to nursing as a second career.

Her self-proclaimed “past life” was teaching English to undergraduate students after earning a PhD in the field. But, she sought more meaningful work. She went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in nursing, while simultaneously developing a writing career that brought her to the attention of The New York Times, where she is a periodic contributor. Her nursing work was in oncology and hospice care; she has written about her experiences as a nurse in two books: Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between and The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients’ Lives. But, the tables were turned when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Her newest book, Healing: When a Nurse is a Patient (published by Algonquin Books), is an interplay between her experiences as a nurse, a wife, a mother, and a patient with breast cancer.

In a series of HealthCetera interviews, registered nurse Diana Mason, PhD, RN, hosted Theresa Brown for a conversation about living with cancer, decision making around a life threatening diagnosis, and the failings and successes of the healthcare system.

This interview series first aired on HealthCetera in the Catskills on WIOX Radio in October of 2022.

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Diana is a senior policy service professor with the George Washington University School of Nursing Center for Health Policy and Media Engagement and founder of HealthCetera. She was previously president of the American Academy of Nursing and the Rudin Professor of Nursing at Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing. She is a health policy expert and leader. Diana tweets @djmasonrn.

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