Anthropology of Nursing: Exploring Cultural Concepts in Practice

ISBN-13: 9781138912809 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 168 str.

Karen Holland

Opis

Anthropology of Nursing in Healthcare Practice aims to introduce nurses and other healthcare professionals to how anthropology can help them understand nursing as a profession and as a culture. Drawing on key anthropological concepts, the book facilitates the understanding and critical consideration of nursing practice in order to produce better outcomes for service users.

Considering the context in which nurses work, the book argues that in order for nurses to optimise their roles as deliverers of patient care they must engage with the realities of the cultural understanding of the patient as well as the multi-professional environment in which most nurses operate.

The only book currently in the field on anthropology of nursing, this book will be valuable for higher level nursing students, as well as students on medical anthropology courses, nursing curriculum developers, and researchers of anthropology who are interested in learning more about its application to nursing and healthcare.

Spis treści

1. Principles of anthropology for nursing and health care 2. Culture and nursing: an anthropological perspective 3. Researching culture: principles of ethnography and ethnographic fieldwork 4. Time and space in the context of nursing work 5. Rituals, rites and nursing practice 6. Transition and initiation: the student nurse 7. Nursing work within nursing culture: images and reality 8. Dirt, pollution and the body: meaning for nursing practice 9. Withdrawal of treatment in the critical care unit: Insights into a trajectory of dying and death 10. Nursing and culture: language, knowledge and power

O autorze

Karen Holland is Editor in Chief of the journal Nurse Education in Practice and holds a position as part-time lecturer at the University of Salford in the School of Health and Society. She has written and edited a number of books for nurses and other health professionals.