Palliative Care Nursing as Mindfulness: Embodying a Relational Ethic through Strong Emotion, Uncertainty and Death

ISBN-13: 9781032181738 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 134 str.

Lacie White

Opis

As nurses, we hear about mindfulness all the time, but what does that actually mean in practice? In this book readers are invited into conversation to explore how mindfulness influences palliative care nurses’ approaches to caring for themselves and others through experiences of living-dying.

Recenzje

'Lacie White's book is a portable support group for healthcare professionals. White presents her research not as impersonal findings, but as living voices of nurses who speak us as we walk through the labyrinth that structures her book. Thus instead of telling how to practice, White offers companionship in bearing the emotional and physical burdens of end-of-life care. The book can be read continuously or dipped into for moments of insight into compassionate care. Read either way, White evokes mindfulness rather than seeking to define it. Palliative Care Nursing as Mindfulness makes its readers more mindful as we walk its labyrinth.'

-Arthur W. Frank, Ph.D., FRSC, author of The Wounded Storyteller and Letting Stories Breathe.

'With the first words of Dr. White's book "Listen. I have a story to tell", you will be swiftly swept into a journey that both opens minds and possibilities. In an artful and innovative way, she composes her writing like a labyrinth so that you are drawn into a sense of mindfulness about palliative care nursing. Her book is the epitome of how to experiment and play with one's writing - it advances the field of arts-based research in ways that I have not seen before.'

-Dr. Jennifer Lapum, Professor, Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing, Ryerson University, Canada

'Lacie White beautifully weaves together storytelling, mindfulness, and the power of authentic connection in palliative care nursing. Powerful reminder of the joy and meaning of being a nurse, especially in caring for those in the last phase of their lives.'

-Susan Bauer-Wu, PhD, RN, FAAN, author of Leaves Falling Gently: Living Fully with Serious & Life-Limiting Illness through Mindfulness, Compassion, & Connectedness, and president of the Mind & Life Institute

Spis treści

Turn 1. A beginning: Walking a labyrinth of stories, Turn 2.Storying mindfulness in palliative care nursing, Turn 3. "Mindfulness gets thrown around all the time, but what does that actually mean in practice?", Turn 4. "You still want to have a tender heart": Embodied vulnerability, Turn 5. "Making Space" through somatic practices of self-awareness and care, Turn 6. Re-storying mindfulness in palliative care nursing, Turn 7. Beginning again: A conclusion