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The heart's truth : essays on the art of nursing /

What is it like to be a student nurse washing the feet of a dying patient? To be a newly graduated nurse, in charge of the Intensive Care Unit for the first time, who wonders if her mistake might have cost a life? Or to be an experienced nurse who, by her presence and care, holds a patient to this w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Davis, Cortney, 1945-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, ©2009.
Colección:Literature and medicine (Kent, Ohio) ; 17.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Other Side of Illness
  • Washing Mrs. Cardiff's Feet
  • The Evening Back Rub
  • Being at the Bedside of the Dying
  • First Night in Charge
  • Talking to No One
  • Nursing and the Word
  • Beyond Scientific Explanation
  • Weekly Rounds
  • Twenty-four Hours in the Life of a Nurse Practitioner
  • First, Do No Harm
  • Hearing the Stories behind Our Patients' Words
  • Body Teaching
  • Tattoos
  • Breaking Bad News
  • Becoming Flora
  • Raped
  • The Heart's Truth
  • Watching ER
  • Feeding the Deer
  • When Their Rhythms Become Mine
  • I Believe in Grief
  • Human Feelings, Human Experiences
  • Conscious Suffering.