Theresa Brown, PhD, BSN, RN, is an American clinical nurse, frequent contributor to The New York Times and author. New York Times columnist for Bedside from 2012 to 2015, she was previously a contributor to the Times blog "Well". Her first book, Critical Care, was published in 2010 by Harper Studio, an imprint of HarperCollins, (published in paperback, April 2011, by HarperOne). Her second book, The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives, was published in 2015, published by Algonquin Books and was a The New York Times Bestseller.