28: Cassie Alexander | The Year Of The Nurse: A 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic Memoir
Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration
Corinna Bellizzi
5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Join Corinna as she interviews a dear friend and prolific author, Cassandra (Cassie) Alexander about her recent (and VERY current) book, “The Year of The Nurse: A 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic Memoir” which catalogs her experience as an ICU nurse treating Covid patients. Subjects covered in this podcast episode and her book include a deep dive into what it was like to be an ICU nurse during the COVID-19 pandemic, depression, PTSD, mental health, writing as therapy, writing for escape, and the importance of de-platforming misinformation and lies. Your life could depend on it. The book’s story is told chronologically and brings us through early days in the pandemic in mid-March 2020 to early June 2021. The perspective you will gain from listening to this episode and reading her book cannot be understated. The Year of The Nurse is for everyone, nurse or otherwise, who is furious about how 2020 went down -- and how 2021 is going.
About Our Guest: Cassandra Alexander, RN, Author, Badass Cassandra Alexander is a registered nurse of fourteen years, with experience in burn, critical care transport, and ICU. She lives in the Bay Area, and writes paranormal fiction as Cassie Alexander (https://cassiealexander.com/).
The Year Of The Nurse, Book Link: https://books2read.com/yearofthenurse
Time Stamps:
00:00 Introduction
03:33 Motivation to write “The Year of The Nurse” and create the blog “Two Nurses Talking”
07:38 Grotesque Honesty – What it was like to be a nurse in the ICU treating Covid-19
10:40 Friendship, Tackling PTSD and Depression
14:00 Stylistic choices in writing “The Year Of The Nurse”
17:30 Where are we now in the Pandemic?
20:40 Essential Workers? Or Sacrificial Lambs?
30:43 Depression in the pandemic
33:33 What is Cassie writing next?
35:45 Tools for those suffering from PTSD and closing thoughts
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Care More Be Better, a podcast for people like you who care about the social impact of conscious companies and everyday heroes. |
| 0:09.7 | Hear inspiring stories from those who put people in planet before profit and personal gain. |
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| 0:20.1 | Here's your host, Karina Belizzi. |
| 0:24.5 | Hello, fellow do-goaters and friends. I am your host, Karina Belizzi, an activist and cause |
| 0:29.7 | marketer who's passionate about social impact and sustainability. Today we're in for a real treat, |
| 0:35.5 | as I have the opportunity to introduce you to a dear friend of mine. |
| 0:39.1 | She's a registered nurse and prolific author whose new book was just released July 19, 2021 on the day we record this show. |
| 0:47.6 | Before we meet her, I'd like you to visit our website, care more be better.com. |
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| 1:07.2 | Cassandra Alexander is a registered nurse of 14 years with experience in burn, critical care, |
| 1:13.4 | transport, and ICU. |
| 1:15.4 | She lives in the Bay Area and writes paranormal fiction as Cassie Alexander. |
| 1:19.8 | Her new book is called Year of the Nurse, a 2020 pandemic memoir. |
| 1:24.6 | Cassie, welcome to the show. |
| 1:26.4 | Hi, Karina. I'm super excited to be here. Well, I just plowed |
| 1:30.5 | through your book this weekend, and I have to say, it is so very real and raw and unfiltered. |
| 1:37.8 | I found myself feeling like I got to know you better, even through the course of reading it, |
| 1:42.2 | and I really was transported back to the beginning |
| 1:44.7 | of our pandemic. But this time, I was experiencing it through your eyes. So tell me, what made you |
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