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The Complexities of Care: Nursing Reconsidered
Sioban Nelson (Ed.)
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Description for The Complexities of Care: Nursing Reconsidered
Paperback. Editor(s): Nelson, Sioban; Gordon, Suzanne. Series: The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: MQCW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 342.
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 polls as the most-trustworthy professionals. Yet, in spite of what seems to be an endless outpouring of public support, in almost every country in the world nursing is under threat, in the practice setting and in the academic sector. Indeed, its standing as a regulated profession is constantly challenged. In our view, this paradox is neither accidental nor natural but, in ... Read more
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 polls as the most-trustworthy professionals. Yet, in spite of what seems to be an endless outpouring of public support, in almost every country in the world nursing is under threat, in the practice setting and in the academic sector. Indeed, its standing as a regulated profession is constantly challenged. In our view, this paradox is neither accidental nor natural but, in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Series
The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
Condition
New
Weight
341g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780801473227
SKU
V9780801473227
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About Sioban Nelson (Ed.)
Sioban Nelson is Dean and Professor at the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto. She is coeditor of The Complexities of Care: Nursing Reconsidered, also from Cornell. Suzanne Gordon is an award-winning journalist. She has written, edited, or co-authored twenty books, including First Do No Harm, Beyond the Checklist, Life Support: Three Nurses on the ... Read more
Reviews for The Complexities of Care: Nursing Reconsidered
While the nursing profession has wrapped itself in care talk, has this hampered a more realistic basis for nurses' self identities and nursing's collective power? This hard-hitting collection faces this question head on. The book is a necessary antidote to more saccharine assessments of twenty-first-century nursing and a tough prescription for change in the health care system. -Susan M. Reverby, ... Read more