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The complexities of care : nursing reconsidered /

In a series of provocative essays, this book rejects the assumption that nursing work is primarily emotional and relational. The contributors-international experts on nursing- all argue that caring discourse in nursing is a dangerous oversimplification that has in fact created many dilemmas within t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Nelson, Sioban, Gordon, Suzanne, 1945-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : ILR Press, 2006.
Colección:Culture and politics of health care work.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction / Sioban Nelson and Suzanne Gordon
  • 1. Moving beyond the virtue script in nursing : creating a knowledge-based identity for nurses / Suzanne Gordon and Sioban Nelson
  • 2. When little things are big things : the importance of relationships for nurses' professional practice / Dana Beth Weinberg
  • 3. Pride and prejudice : nurses' struggle with reasoned debate / Diana J. Mason
  • 4. Moral integrity and regret in nursing / Lydia L. Moland
  • 5. Ethical expertise and the problem of the good nurse / Sioban Nelson
  • 6. From sickness to health / Tom Keighley
  • 7. The new Cartesianism : dividing mind and body and thus disembodying care / Suzanne Gordon
  • 8. Nurses must be clever to care / Sanchia Aranda and Rosie Brown
  • 9. "You don't want to stay here" : surgical nursing and the disappearance of patient recovery time / Marie Heartfield
  • 10. Research on nurse staffing and its outcomes : the challenges and risks of grasping at shadows / Sean Clarke
  • 11. Conclusion : Nurses wanted : sentimental men and women need not apply / Sioban Nelson and Suzanne Gordon
  • Notes
  • Contributions
  • Index.