Where night is day : the world of the ICU /

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"This book describes the hour-by-hour, day-by-day rhythms of an intensive care unit in a teaching hospital in New Mexico. Written by a nurse, Where Night Is Day reveals the specialized work of ICU nursing and its unique perspective on illness, suffering, and death. It takes place over a thirtee...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kelly, James, 1948- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2013.
Series:Culture and politics of health care work.
Subjects:
Intensive care nursing > New Mexico.
Intensive care units > New Mexico.
Intensive care units.
Critical care medicine.
Critical Illness > nursing
Intensive Care Units
Critical Care Nursing
Critical Care
Soins infirmiers en soins intensifs > Nouveau-Mexique.
Unités de soins intensifs > Nouveau-Mexique.
Unités de soins intensifs.
Soins intensifs.
intensive care units.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Medical.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
Intensive care nursing.
New Mexico
New Mexico.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The voyage into the sea of critical illness
  • Diagnosis, diagnosis, diagnosis
  • Nursing isn't a journey
  • One more day
  • The dream of cure
  • Nursing : what it is and what it is not
  • Caring
  • Medicine as ghost rain
  • Dying
  • Poetic and tragic murmurings of the everyday
  • They tell us everything
  • Can they hear?
  • Leaving ends the love
  • The horizon.

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