Medical Humanities Distinguished Lecture: Theresa Brown, R.N.
Department: Minor in Medical Humanities
Date and Time: October 25, 2016 | 5:30 PM-7:00 PMEvent Location: Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering
Event Details
Join us for the Medical Humanities Initiative Distinguished Lecture featuring Theresa Brown, R.N. and bestselling author of The Shift.
Date: Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Time: 5:30 p.m. – 6:45 p.m. Reception;
7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Distinguished Lecture featuring Theresa Brown, R.N.
Location: Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering. Parking is available free of charge in the Beckman Center lot (directions)
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Theresa Brown will sign copies of The Shift during the reception.
About Theresa Brown, BSN, RN
Theresa Brown, BSN, RN, works as a clinical nurse in Pittsburgh. Her most recent book is The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients’ Lives.
Theresa received her BSN from the University of Pittsburgh, and during what she calls her past life, a PhD in English from the University of Chicago. Her column “Bedside” appeared on the New York Times op-ed page as well as on the Times blog “Opinionator” and she is a frequent contributor to the New York Times. Previously she wrote for the New York Times blog “Well.” Her writing has also appeared on CNN.com, and in The American Journal of Nursing and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. She is an Advisory Board Member of the Center for Health Media and Policy at the Bellevue School of Nursing at Hunter College, and a participant in two different Robert Wood Johnson initiatives: “Flip the Clinic” and “The Power of Narrative.”
Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between (HarperOne, 2011, paperback edition) is her first book, which has been adopted as a textbook in Schools of Nursing across the country. Theresa lectures nationally on issues related to nursing, health care, and end of life. Her clinical work has been in medical oncology, hospice, and palliative care. Becoming a mom led Theresa to leave academia and pursue nursing. It is a career change she has never regretted.