Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
What does it truly mean to care? For Jan DeBell Daniel, MSN, FNP-BC, the answer wasn’t found in sterile classrooms or thick textbooks. It was forged slowly, and often painfully, through a lifetime of showing up. In this deeply moving and candid memoir, Jan takes readers on an extraordinary forty-year journey through the heart of modern medicine. From her early days as a young, insecure boarding school student to working in the quiet precision of a pathology morgue, Jan’s path was anything but a straight line. As her career evolved from Certified Medical Assistant to Registered Nurse, and ultimately to Family Nurse Practitioner, she navigated the high-stakes world of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), saving fragile newborn lives while raising four children of her own. But behind her professional triumphs lay a gauntlet of personal trials:The Struggle of Motherhood & Private Pain: Raising her family while quietly carrying the heavy burden of a husband’s severe alcoholism. The Triumph and Betrayal of Invention: Designing a patented infant sling (U.S. Patent #5,233,714) that saved premature babies across the country, only to watch corporate giants steal her design. A System in Crisis: Battling a soul-crushing corporate healthcare 'machine' that prioritizes bloated documentation and profit over patient humanity. A Heartbreaking Health Emergency: Building her own beloved rural primary care practice, Stokesdale Family Care, only to have her dream cut short by a sudden, life-threatening medical crisis. Through a devastating psychiatric breakdown, the loss of her beloved mother to cancer, and the crushing weight of professional burnout, Jan’s story is ultimately one of spectacular renewal. Transitioning into psychiatric nursing later in life, she rediscovered the quiet, sacred power of human connection-proving that the education of care never truly ends. Perfect for fans of Theresa Brown’s The Shift, Christie Watson’s The Language of Kindness, and inspiring stories of female resilience, The Quiet Education of Care is an intimate, eye-opening look at the people we trust with our lives, and the heavy price they pay to heal us. Scroll up and click 'Buy Now' to step behind the clinic doors and discover the true human side of medicine.
