When the world shut down, nurses kept showing up.
Behind hospital doors, where families couldn't enter and fear filled every room, one thing never stopped-care.
Behind the Mask: Life on a COVID Med-Surg Floor is a raw and emotional memoir that takes you inside the reality most people never saw.
Patients fighting for every breath.
Final goodbyes spoken through screens.
And nurses carrying the weight of it all-shift after shift.
Through powerful, firsthand experiences, Jolene Dunstan reveals:
The emotional toll of frontline care during the pandemicThe moments of heartbreak that never made the newsThe resilience it takes to keep going when everything feels impossibleThis is more than a story about medicine.
It's a story about humanity, sacrifice, and strength in the face of unimaginable loss.
If you've ever wondered what really happened inside those hospital walls-this book will stay with you long after the last page.