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Nursing as therapy

edited by Richard McMahon, Alan Pearson

Stanley Thornes, c1998

2nd ed

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Previous ed.: London : Chapman & Hall, 1991

Includes bibliographies and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This work includes material on quality, practice and the politics of nursing; and, examines therapeutic nursing from an international perspective, placing nursing at the centre of health care delivery. Practitioners will find it a refreshing challenge, helping them to enhance their professional practice.

Table of Contents

  • Therapeutic nursing - theory, issues and practice
  • reflection and the evaluation of experience - prerequisites for therapeutic practice?
  • the presentation of the nurse - a neglected dimension of therapeutic nurse-patient interaction
  • ordinariness in nursing as therapy
  • facilitating therapeutic nursing and independent practice
  • quality discourse and nursing as therapy
  • tailoring research for therapeutic-nursing practice
  • an exploration of touch and its use in nursing
  • an evaluation of humanism as a philosophy for nursing practice within an era of rational-scientific health care
  • mental health
  • therapeutic nursing in acute care
  • the political dimension of nursing as therapy
  • taking up the challenge - the future for therapeutic nursing.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA40775736
  • ISBN
    • 0748733264
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Cheltenham
  • Pages/Volumes
    xi, 268 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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