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Lessons from a bedside : wisdom for living / Breda Casserly.

By: Casserly, Breda [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Dublin, Ireland : Hachette Books Ireland, 2022Copyright date: ©2021Description: xliv, 275 pages ; 20 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 152934199X (paperback); 9781529341997 (paperback).Subject(s): Peace of mind | Self-actualization (Psychology)DDC classification: 234.131 CAS
Contents:
Introduction -- Spiritual Pain -- Spiritual Medicine - A Third Branch of Medicine? -- Dealing with Life's Hurts - Forgiveness -- Just Be You -- The Importance of Storytelling -- Feelings of Loss and Grief -- The Sacred Art of Dying -- Loneliness -- Fear -- The Richness of Our Family Tree -- Supporting Families and Loved Ones -- Making Memories.
Summary: "In Lessons from a Bedside, Breda Casserly, a healthcare chaplain at the Galway Hospice Foundation, shares the wisdom she has learned from her patients as she's journeyed with them through serious, often terminal, illness. Here are stories of self-acceptance, grief, forgiveness, family and friendship inspired by the people Breda has met over the course of her work as well as stories from her own life as she explores coming to terms with personal loss. Told with simplicity and compassion, Lessons from a Bedside is a book of love, spirituality and humanity which shows us paths to healing."-- Page 4 of cover.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Notes Barcode
General lending MTU Kerry North Campus Library Ground Floor Main 234.131 CAS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available MTU Kerry module NURS81025 - Recommended 38888000947501
General lending MTU Kerry North Campus Library Ground Floor Main 234.131 CAS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available MTU Kerry module NURS81025 - Recommended 38888000947519
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

WE ARE ALL ON A JOURNEY - from the moment we are born to the final minutes before our death. But as we live our busy lives, we oftentimes ignore the inner hurts and pain we may be carrying.
In Lessons from a Bedside , Breda Casserly, a healthcare chaplain at the Galway Hospice Foundation, shares the wisdom she's learned from her patients as she's journeyed with them through serious, often terminal, illness.
Here are stories of self-acceptance, grief, forgiveness and memory inspired by the people Breda has met over the course of her work, along with her own story of coming to terms with personal loss. Told with simplicity and compassion, Lessons from a Bedside is a book of love, spirituality and humanity which shows us paths to healing.

Introduction -- Spiritual Pain -- Spiritual Medicine - A Third Branch of Medicine? -- Dealing with Life's Hurts - Forgiveness -- Just Be You -- The Importance of Storytelling -- Feelings of Loss and Grief -- The Sacred Art of Dying -- Loneliness -- Fear -- The Richness of Our Family Tree -- Supporting Families and Loved Ones -- Making Memories.

"In Lessons from a Bedside, Breda Casserly, a healthcare chaplain at the Galway Hospice Foundation, shares the wisdom she has learned from her patients as she's journeyed with them through serious, often terminal, illness. Here are stories of self-acceptance, grief, forgiveness, family and friendship inspired by the people Breda has met over the course of her work as well as stories from her own life as she explores coming to terms with personal loss. Told with simplicity and compassion, Lessons from a Bedside is a book of love, spirituality and humanity which shows us paths to healing."-- Page 4 of cover.

MTU Kerry module NURS81025 - Recommended reading

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Author Note (p. ix)
  • Foreword (p. xii)
  • Introduction (p. xxiii)
  • Chapter 1 Spiritual Pain (p. 1)
  • Chapter 2 Spiritual Medicine - A Third Branch of Medicine? (p. 26)
  • Chapter 3 Dealing with Life's Hurts - Forgiveness (p. 50)
  • Chapter 4 Just Be You (p. 79)
  • Chapter 5 The Importance of Storytelling (p. 111)
  • Chapter 6 Feelings of Loss and Grief (p. 123)
  • Chapter 7 The Sacred Art of Dying (p. 144)
  • Chapter 8 Loneliness (p. 168)
  • Chapter 9 Fear (p. 190)
  • Chapter 10 The Richness of Our Family Tree (p. 211)
  • Chapter 11 Supporting Families and Loved Ones (p. 228)
  • Chapter 12 Making Memories (p. 246)
  • Conclusion (p. 265)
  • Acknowledgements (p. 271)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Breda Casserly is a healthcare chaplain in the Galway Hospice Foundation, in Renmore, Galway, a position she fulfilled full time for eleven years before moving to a support role in spring 2021. She is a graduate of NUI Galway and All Hallows College, Dublin, with postgraduate degrees in Pastoral Theology and Cross-Professional Supervision. She teaches on spiritual/soul pain for the Postgraduate Diploma in Nursing (Palliative Care) at NUI Galway.
Lessons from a Bedside is her first book.