Catching Homelessness: A Nurse's Story of Falling Through the Safety Net

By Josephine Ensign

Book Overview

At the beginning of the homelessness epidemic in the 1980s, Josephine Ensign was a young, white, Southern, Christian wife, mother, and nurse running a new medical clinic for the homeless in the heart of the South. Through her work and intense relationships with patients and co-workers, her worldview was shattered, and after losing her job, family, and house, she became homeless herself. She reconstructed her life with altered views on homelessness--and on the health care system. In Catching Homelessness, Ensign reflects on how this work has changed her and how her work has changed through the experience of being homeless--providing a piercing look at the homelessness industry, nursing, and our country's health care safety net.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1631521179
• ISBN13: 9781631521171
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: She Writes Press (Ips)
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"