Discovering my Empathetic Heart by Melanie Baker

Discovering my Empathetic Heart by Melanie Baker

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My best required no ticket but gave me a series of personal life challenges and experiences, which projected me into a journey of learning new skills and making wonderful memories. From childhood, through to adulthood, meeting and nursing many psychiatric patients, whom I showered with love and respect, enabling me to discover my empathetic heart.

Follow me as I introduce you to the innocence and institutionalisation of poor Hetty admitted to the old asylum and deemed as being possessed by the devil because she was an unmarried pregnant teenager. Then, how my talent in the art of farting saved my life when a disturbed patient threatened to kill me as he chased me down a hospital corridor, and the phenomena of witnessing a patient with Stigmata. Also, the dealing of the sexist, slimeball tutor who plagued my career, because I had refused sexual favours.

Mental health was such a taboo subject in society during the twentieth century. People deemed as crazy, possessed or just mad, put away out of sight and mind because of their family's embarrassment. Being part of the patients' lives and creating fun and laughter as part of their treatment made me proud to make a difference. After all, they gave me the greatest gift of all, knowledge and experience to enhance my own life, enabling me to help others.

Melanie Baker RMN

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Baker, Melanie: - Melanie Baker was born and raised in Darfield a small village in south Yorkshire England. Melanie is married and has a son who followed her into a nursing career and now specialises in aesthetics. Her first book Discovering my empathetic heart is based on her memoirs of life experiences from childhood to adulthood, guiding her to her career in psychiatric nursing. Her book is filled with love, laughter and heartbreak. After twenty years of nursing experiences, and achieving additional skills as a degree student mentor, counsellor and CBT therapist. She recognised as a ward sister a major problem in psychiatric care in the community. Melanie left the NHS and started her own company specialising in care for clients with mental health issues. The company Empathy Private Home Care developed into an award-winning organisation serving clients across Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire. Though her first book is about her early nursing career, her second book will cover care in the community, sharing stories of carers going beyond the call of duty, the challenges of social services and the NHS, and many heart-warming characters.

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ISBN 13	9789893313411
ISBN 10	9893313414
Title	Discovering my Empathetic Heart
Author	Melanie Baker
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Mary Melanie Baker
Year published	2021-01-30
Number of pages	362
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.