Paradoxes in Nurses' Identity, Culture and Image : The Shadow Side of Nursing.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (187 pages)
- Routledge Research in Nursing and Midwifery Series .
- Routledge Research in Nursing and Midwifery Series .
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Disquieting images of nurses -- Nurses and nursing today -- The shadow side of nursing -- Nurses' professional identity -- The good nurse -- Popular culture and mass media -- Conclusion -- References -- 1. Transgressive texts about nursing -- Introduction -- Kristy Chambers' memoir -- Transgressive representations of nursing -- Conclusion -- References -- 2. Nursing's dark past and secret knowledge -- Introduction -- Nursing knowledge as mysterious -- Practising ethical ways of knowing -- Practising critical thinking and having the courage of one's convictions -- Nursing knowledges in action -- Conclusion -- Reference -- 3. Objects of desire -- Introduction -- Sexy nurses -- Objectification of the nurse -- Fetishisation and nursing -- Nurses' desirability -- Reclaiming and subverting the stereotype -- Conclusion -- References -- 4. Nursing and the abject -- Introduction -- Struggling to manage the abject -- Understanding the abject -- Death and dying -- Unimagined horrors -- Conclusion -- References -- 5. Apparitions, lost souls and healing spaces -- Introduction -- Rituals to create healing spaces -- Haunting places and apparitions -- Night terrors -- Nurses' ghost stories -- Unsettled and unsettling stories -- Fears revealed -- Catharsis and understanding -- Conclusion -- References -- 6. Mighty, mean, monstrous nurses -- Introduction -- Effects of the feminist movement -- Mighty "battleaxe" nurses -- Monstrous nurses -- Mean and monstrous nurses -- Real nurses acting badly -- Complexities of care -- Conclusion -- References -- 7. Murdering nurses -- Introduction -- Nursing's darkesthour -- Angels of death -- Conclusion -- References -- 8. Nurses and sick health care systems -- Introduction. To fight for what is right -- No place of asylum -- If no one looks, does anyone see? -- Conclusion -- References -- 9. Growing from adversity -- Introduction -- Transcending personal trauma -- Wounded healers -- From slave to "stronger than the enemy" -- More than machines -- Nurses knowing their value -- Conclusion -- References -- Conclusion: Out of the shadows, into the light -- The shadow side -- Moving into the light -- References -- Index.
This book examines some of the more disturbing representations of nurses in popular culture, to understand nursing's complex identities, challenges and future directions.