Nursing as a Therapeutic Activity: An Ethnography

ISBN-13: 9780367000714 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 371 str.

Steven J. Ersser

Opis

First published in 1997, this volume responds to the rapidly developing fields of nursing and health care fields and explores the meaning of nursing and the nurse-patient relationship through looking at the effects of a nurse’s personality, approach and understanding as being therapeutic for the patient’s experience.

Spis treści

1. Introduction to Study. 2. The Concept of Nursing as Therapy. 3. Selecting a Methodology: Rationale for the Method. 4. Method: Ethnography in Clinical Situations and Rigour of the Study. 4a. Settings for the Study. 5. Introduction to Core Concepts and Their Interrelations. 6. Presentation of the Nurse: II – Presence of the Nurse. 7. Core Categories: Relating to the Patient and Specific Actions of the Nurse. 8. The Effect of Nursing on Patient Outcome: an Interpretive Perspective. 9. The Core Story: the Core Concepts and Their Interrelationships. 10. Conclusions and Implications: Developing an Understanding of the Therapeutic Significance of Nursing.

O autorze

Steven J Ersser