<p><b>''An inspiring book for our challenging times'' Olivia Coleman</b><br><br> Nurses have never been more important.<br><br> We benefit from their expertise in our hospitals and beyond: in our schools, on our streets, in prisons, hospices and care homes. When we feel most alone, nurses remind us that we are not alone at all.<br><br> In <i>The Courage to Care</i> bestselling author Christie Watson reveals the remarkable extent of nurses'' work:<br><br> - A community mental-health nurse choreographs support for a man suffering from severe depression<br> - A teen with stab wounds is treated by the critical-care team; his school nurse visits and he drops the bravado<br> - A pregnant woman loses frightening amounts of blood following a car accident; it is a military nurse who synchronises the emergency department into immaculate order and focus.<br><br> Christie makes a further discovery: that, time and again, it is patients and their families - including her own - who show exceptional s