The Complexities of Care : Nursing Reconsidered.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (225 pages)
- The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work Series .
- The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work Series .
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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Nursing. Nursing -- Philosophy. Nursing ethics. Nursing -- Social aspects. Care of the sick.