EPISODE · Sep 24, 2020 · 3 MIN
Handle With Care: True Confessions of an NHS Health Visitor by Rachael Hearson
from Download Top Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture · host Alexis Willms
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/455087 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Handle With Care: True Confessions of an NHS Health Visitor Author: Rachael Hearson Narrator: Rachael Hearson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 36 minutes Release date: September 24, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Health Visiting is one of those professions that most people think is a bit of a non-job. 'You just sit on sofas and drink tea, don't you? It's not like you're a real nurse, in hospital.' Well, Health Visitors are real nurses, with at least three years' training, and they are out there, on their own. No back-up team or support structures to call for help if they're in a dicey situation. No warm lights, tea breaks spent chatting in the canteen, nobody else to ask, 'is this okay, what do you think?' Over 40 years working in the NHS, Rachael Hearson has been chased down an isolated stairwell by crack-fuelled drug-addicted pimps, threatened by a knife-wielding wife-beater in a hostel, unwittingly visited a brothel...And that's just the tip of the iceberg. '[It] manages to be funny, moving, activist, and challenging.' Harriet Minter, TalkRadio 'I loved this book - I thought it was really interesting' Jane Garvey, BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/455087 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Handle With Care: True Confessions of an NHS Health Visitor Author: Rachael Hearson Narrator: Rachael Hearson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 36 minutes Release date: September 24, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Health Visiting is one of those professions that most people think is a bit of a non-job. 'You just sit on sofas and drink tea, don't you? It's not like you're a real nurse, in hospital.' Well, Health Visitors are real nurses, with at least three years' training, and they are out there, on their own. No back-up team or support structures to call for help if they're in a dicey situation. No warm lights, tea breaks spent chatting in the canteen, nobody else to ask, 'is this okay, what do you think?' Over 40 years working in the NHS, Rachael Hearson has been chased down an isolated stairwell by crack-fuelled drug-addicted pimps, threatened by a knife-wielding wife-beater in a hostel, unwittingly visited a brothel...And that's just the tip of the iceberg. '[It] manages to be funny, moving, activist, and challenging.' Harriet Minter, TalkRadio 'I loved this book - I thought it was really interesting' Jane Garvey, BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour
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