The Handover

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ISBN: 9781487563035

A Nurse's Last Shift

Tilda Shalof, Lisa Mochrie

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English

Aevo UTP
13 January 2026

Illness & addiction: social aspects; Medicolegal issues; Nurse patient relationship

In The Handover, nurse Tilda Shalof shares her knowledge and vast experience with student nurse, Lisa Mochrie. Their relationship unfolds through conversations, texts, emails, and real-time meetings, that span the COVID-19 pandemic to the present day.

As Shalof reflects on what has changed in the profession, she also seeks to identify the universal practices, values, and nursing ethos, that must be preserved. She and Mochrie discuss clinical challenges and personal struggles: from the rigours of nursing school and shift work to the stresses of 'adulting', such as dating, friendships, identity, self-care, and the search for balance.

This book offers practical advice and novel perspectives on long-standing issues, such as the meaning of the term nursing shortage and how to combat the pervasive problem of burnout. It explores compassion fatigue, emotional intelligence, boundary-setting, bias and privilege awareness, and the aspiration to provide person-centered care.

The Handover is a candid, often humorous, and deeply intimate look into the world of nursing, which is too often overlooked by the media or regarded through overly sentimental stereotypes. Accessible to all readers and invaluable to students and educators, this book will stimulate critical conversations about what it means to care for others and oneself and how to repair our precious, but precarious, health care system.

By: Tilda Shalof
With: Lisa Mochrie
Imprint: Aevo UTP
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 500g
ISBN: 9781487563035
ISBN 10: 1487563035
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 13 January 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1. OK, Boomer Nurse – Welcome, Gen Z Nurse 2. The Last Hug 3. The Three “B’s” 4. The “C” Word 5. A “Good Daisy” 6. Electrolytes and Emoji’s 7. Feathers 8. Grit and Gut 9. Hypptyynytyydytys 10. The Ick 11. Lights, Camera, Action! 12. Murder, They Wrote or Nursezillas? 13. Passionfruit 14. R and R 15. Succession Theory 16. WIIFM? 17. Say Yes to the Dress 18. Ampersand Generation

Tilda Shalof was a staff nurse in the Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit at Toronto General Hospital of the University Health Network for thirty years and held a variety of clinical positions at UHN until her recent retirement. Her best-selling memoir, A Nurse's Story: Life, Death, and In-Between in an Intensive Care Unit, has been translated into many languages, and has a global readership. Shalof was awarded the King Charles III Coronation Medal 2025 for her contribution to nursing education. Lisa Mochrie is a Registered Nurse, Team Lead, and Nursing Educator based in Burlington, Ontario. Mochrie has been recognised for her compassionate clinical practice by her Hospital's Kindness Award (2024) and for her excellence in teaching and leadership. She was honoured by her students with the Most Valuable Professor Award (2025), a testament to the lasting impact she makes on learners and the community. At the bedside and in the classroom, Mochrie is dedicated to ensuring that people feel seen, supported, and valued.

Reviews for The Handover: A Nurse's Last Shift

“The Handover is a must-read, not just for new nurses, but for doctors and, most of all, patients.” -- Heather Mallick, Staff Columnist, <EM>Toronto Star</EM> “The Handover is a gift of wisdom, honesty, compassion, and a career’s worth of plain-spoken truth about nursing.” -- Robert Maunder, author of <EM>Damaged: Childhood Trauma, Adult Illness, and the Need for a Health Care Revolution</EM> “Shalof’s memoir is a fascinating, quirky, and highly readable story of nursing in all its complexity.” -- Sally Thorne, Professor Emeritus, School of Nursing, University of British Columbia “Another brilliant work to add to the Shalof canon so beautifully filled with firsts and lasts, beginnings, endings, and messy middles. Don’t miss this one!” -- Michael J. Villeneuve, Retired Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Nurses Association