Cognitive Multitasking – What Nurses Do

So, last time, I promised more posts about our river tour along the Danube, Main, and Rhine rivers. Well, internet remained sketchy, so I wasn’t able to. More about the trip later, though.

Now, back in my regular retired life in Chicago, I am pleased to present this review of a book written by nurse, author, and New York Times blogger Theresa Brown. The review mentions the “cognitive multitasking” that nurses do, when bystanders may think nurses are kind of just there in the background.

Working a Shift with Theresa Brown gets at what my friend Marianna Crane and I aimed to do when we wrote our nursing memoirs. To show not only what nurses do, but how they think. What goes into their decision-making to choose nursing as a profession, their clinical specialty (child health, adult health, mental health, and more), their role (bedside nurse, teacher, nurse practitioner…