This is an exploration of attitudes to nursing which explores why nurses' work is belittled and taken for granted by the majority of other professions, if not by patients themselves. This is a sociological analysis of the substance of nursing by a nurse who has spent many years in the Australian nursing service. She explains why, in her view, nursing and nurses are frequently taken for granted. Moving on from obvious perceptions of nursing as "woman's work" or "dirty work", she focuses on the idea that nursing is people's experience of embodied existence. It is a positive approach which instills the reader with a respect for nurses and their discipline.
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In 1992 Jocalyn took up a chair in Nursing at the University of Sydney and from July1999 to January 2008 she was Dean of the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery. She is a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Nursing and a Fellow of the College of Nursing, NSW. She was also made an Honorary Fellow of the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses.
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Every nurse - and every nurse's family - should read this!,
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This review is from: Behind the Screens: Nursing, Somology, and the Problem of the Body (Hardcover)
A nurse anthropoligist writes about the "intimacy of nursing". Every nursing faculty member and student needs to discuss this book. Nurses provide personal and oftern intinate care to strangers, people they may know from their communities, and people who may have personal power. The ethos of nurisng requires the nurse to be professional, alert to issues of confidentiality, and compassionate. This is the only book I have ever read on the subject - and it handles the subject fairly and with dignity. As a nurse educator, I recommend it to colleagues and students
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