In 2021, during a time of extreme stress for medical care workers and the general population, there were more than 36 million U.S. hospital admissions.
Each one of those 36 million hospitalized patients likely had family or friends at their bedside. The bedside advocate is an important third party, a person not part of the medical team, one with intimate knowledge of the patient and can be of help to their loved one
When ordinary people become helpful bedside advocates, everyone will benefit—the patient, medical care teams and families.
Yet the advocates will likely be woefully unprepared for the work ahead, have no training, no coaching, no information, and no roadmap to guide them through the chaos.
The author strives to share insightful lessons learned while caring for her late husband during his yearlong ordeal with esophageal cancer. Information and hard-to-find insight is shared by physicians and nurses at Duke University Hospital, Savannah Memorial Hospital, NYC Bellevue Hospital, Encompass Health Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospital, and Hospice, providing a roadmap to harmonious engagement with physicians and nurses.
Becoming a Bedside Advocate (ISBN: 9798985400052) can be purchased through retailers worldwide, including barnesandnoble.com and Amazon. The paperback retails for $14.99. Wholesale orders are available through Ingram.
From the back cover:
At some point in our lives, we are all likely to serve as a bedside advocate for a hospitalized loved one. And, just as likely to be woefully unprepared when that happens.
The ordinary person has no idea how to navigate hospital chaos and engage with medical professionals on behalf of their family member or friend.
There is very often no support system, guidebook, or coaching available to us. Yet the better prepared we are to work harmoniously with medical care teams, the more everyone involved will benefit.
This book aims to humanize the role of bedside advocate by sharing the author’s lessons learned along with valuable information and insight provided by medical care professionals.
About the author:
Kim is a first-time author who currently resides in Bluffton, South Carolina.
About MindStir Media:
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