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The Complexities of Care : Nursing Reconsidered.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work SeriesPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (225 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801465055
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Complexities of CareDDC classification:
  • 610.73
LOC classification:
  • RT82
Online resources:
Contents:
The Complexities of Care -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Moving beyond the Virtue Script in Nursing: Creating a Knowledge-Based Identity for Nurses -- 2. When Little Things Are Big Things: The Importance of Relationships for Nurses' Professional Practice -- 3. Pride and Prejudice: Nurses' Struggle with Reasoned Debate -- 4. Moral Integrity and Regret in Nursing -- 5. Ethical Expertise and the Problem of the Good Nurse -- 6. From Sickness to Health -- 7. The New Cartesianism: Dividing Mind and Body and Thus Disembodying Care -- 8. Nurses Must Be Clever to Care -- 9. "You Don't Want to Stay Here": Surgical Nursing and the Disappearance of Patient Recovery Time -- 10. Research on Nurse Staffing and Its Outcomes: The Challenges and Risks of Grasping at Shadows -- Conclusion: Nurses Wanted: Sentimental Men and Women Need Not Apply -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: "Nursing, everyone believes, is the caring profession. Texts on caring line the walls of nursing schools and student shelves. Indeed, the discipline of nursing is often known as the 'caring science.' Because of their caring reputation, nurses top the.
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The Complexities of Care -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Moving beyond the Virtue Script in Nursing: Creating a Knowledge-Based Identity for Nurses -- 2. When Little Things Are Big Things: The Importance of Relationships for Nurses' Professional Practice -- 3. Pride and Prejudice: Nurses' Struggle with Reasoned Debate -- 4. Moral Integrity and Regret in Nursing -- 5. Ethical Expertise and the Problem of the Good Nurse -- 6. From Sickness to Health -- 7. The New Cartesianism: Dividing Mind and Body and Thus Disembodying Care -- 8. Nurses Must Be Clever to Care -- 9. "You Don't Want to Stay Here": Surgical Nursing and the Disappearance of Patient Recovery Time -- 10. Research on Nurse Staffing and Its Outcomes: The Challenges and Risks of Grasping at Shadows -- Conclusion: Nurses Wanted: Sentimental Men and Women Need Not Apply -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index.

"Nursing, everyone believes, is the caring profession. Texts on caring line the walls of nursing schools and student shelves. Indeed, the discipline of nursing is often known as the 'caring science.' Because of their caring reputation, nurses top the.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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