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By combining stories of care, the reflections of caregiving practitioners, and interpretations of caregiving within a larger social and theoretical framework, this collection identifies the values and skills involved in quality caregiving at the individual level. This collection also affirms their importance for reshaping our public caregiving institutions. Contributors from the fields of medicine, nursing, …

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The need for caregiving is enormous. Thanks to extraordinary advances in medical technology, Americans are surviving illnesses and injuries that would have killed them a generation ago, and more of us are living into our eighties and nineties than ever before. Yet most people over sixty-five live with the burden of one or more chronic …

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First-person accounts from practicing nurses provide students with expert role models in this authoritative yet personal text that focuses on patients’ responses to stress. The breadth and value of the nursing experience is reinforced as nurses share how their caring made a critical difference for patients and their families. This text, winner of two American …

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A classic research-based text in nursing practice and education. This newly-revised second edition explains (through first-hand accounts of the hard-earned experiential wisdom of expert nurses) the clinical reasoning skills necessary for top-tier nursing in acute and critical settings. It provides not only the most current knowledge and practice innovations, but also reflects the authors’ vast …

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Patricia Benner’s introduction to phenomenology develops the reader’s understanding of the strategies and processes involved in this innovative approach to nursing. The author discusses the relationship between theory and practice, considers the possibility of a science of caring from a feminist perspective, introduces interpretive phenomenology to the study of natural groups such as families, and …

Continue reading “Interpretive Phenomenology: Embodiment, Caring, and Ethics in Health and Illness”

Nursing practice is a complex and varied field that requires precision, dedication, care, and expertise. Clinicians must have both the skills and the tools to attend to changes in patients’ responses, recognize trends, and understand the nature of their patients’ conditions over time. Book Available Here