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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Kent, Ohio :
Kent State University Press,
©2009.
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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.