Whether it's the nurse who takes your blood pressure in your primary care physician's office or the nurse who cares for you when you are rushed into a hospital emergency room, you'll never look at a registered nurse in quite the same way after you read this eye-opening book by Alexandra Robbins.

Which patients get the very best care in almost any hospital, and the one thing you can do to make sure you are that patient. This is one kind of a dark twisted book. Claire Allen does know how to tap into your emotions and twist them. The premise of the book is simple, shared by three perspectives, the mother, Nell herself and a character titled as ‘him’.Pg. 137 “Nurse bulling is a significant problem in many corners of the world, etc. Worldwide, experts have estimated that one in three nurse quits her job because of it, and that bullying—not wages—is the major cause of a global critical nursing shortage.” Kortext is an e-book platform that gives you access to hundreds of books for NHS staff and learners including collections on sustainability, wellbeing and resilience and equality and diversity. There are lots of books on the Kortext platform for nurses and midwives including:

This book is about the sad and lame incel movement. Incels are involuntary celibates - men who can’t get a girlfriend, who feel slighted by women who they feel should respect them as superior beings. They blame women for everything that is wrong in their lives. This is not fiction. It is real and it is out there and there are sad little men acting on their impulses to punish women right now. Of course ‘not all men’ are sad, creepy perverts. In fact I don’t know anyone like that at all (thankfully). There are many many kind, respectful, wonderful men out there and they are just as disgusted by this movement as women. While I applaud the author for writing about this issue, and I must say the author’s note at the end was very heartfelt, the story just didn’t fully grab me. The ending is somewhat plain and simple, and could have been better. However, I much prefer this instead of a far-fetched twist. This saddens me as the shortage of nurses would speak to the need for mentors and those willing to help the new become proficient in their career. The nurses don't even respect each other, the young and newly qualified ones suffering from verbal bullying, put-downs and deliberate` overloading with work by the older more experienced nurses. Then there's the deliberate exclusion of the not-cool by the cliques...

By the author of Call the Midwife, this is a series of essays about death – from euthanasia to the requirement of hospitals to resuscitate even frail and dying patients. Some chapters are love stories, others brutally explicit about how, as a society, we often get death wrong. Worth writes with searching authority about a subject she believed we all need to get much better at talking about. She died in 2011, meeting her end with the courage and dignity her book advocates. Jennifer Worth with a photograph of herself as a midwife in the 1950s. Photograph: Frank Baron/the Guardian