A handbook for Christian nurses and other medical staff, based on hundreds of conversations with nurses. It looks at the "hard choices" they face, including the effect of shift work; Christian witness on the job; low pay/strikes; hospice and Aids care; coping with cuts; nursing education; nursing in the community and on the mission field and so on. The author also wrote "They Can't Eat Prayer", "A Thoroughly Modern Martha", "Hidden Miracles at All Souls" and "Learning Through Pain".
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Hodder & Stoughton General Division
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Höhe: 178 mm
Breite: 111 mm
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978-0-340-51743-7 (9780340517437)
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The changing future of nurse education; the nursing process - a revolution in patient care; staff nurse blues - the problems of the newly qualified; midwifery - essential or a specialization?; gynaecolocy - and the ethical problems; sick children - and the care of the whole family; theatre work, surgery and intensive care; psychiatric care and learning disabilities - their challenges and rewards; terminal care - the quality of life and death; nursing AIDS patients - compassion not condemnation; being a ward sister and hospital management; teaching - challenges but no bedside care; nursing in the community - the future field of care; nursing overseas - its problems and joys; agency nursing and volunteer help - their future role; Christianity in hospital.
