Conflicted health care : professionalism and caring in an urban hospital /

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"This book takes an intimate look at how health care practitioners struggle to live up to their professional and caring ideals on twelve-hour shifts on the hospital floor"--Provided by publisher

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Apesoa-Varano, Ester Carolina, 1975- (Author), Varano, Charles S., 1957- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Hospital care.
Hospitals > Medical staff.
Hospital patients > Services for.
Medical personnel and patient.
Medical personnel > Attitudes.
Hospital-Patient Relations
Hospitals, Urban
Medical Staff, Hospital
Patient Care
Professional Role
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
MEDICAL > Health Care Delivery.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The professional self
  • Teamwork in the hospital
  • The dilemma of caring
  • Caring reconsidered
  • When the day is done, its still work
  • Crossing the line
  • Unions : the elephant in the room.

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