Where night is day the world of the ICU /
"This book describes the hour-by-hour, day-by-day rhythms of an intensive care unit in a teaching hospital in New Mexico. Written by a nurse, Where Night Is Day reveals the specialized work of ICU nursing and its unique perspective on illness, suffering, and death. It takes place over a thirteen-wee...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca :
ILR Press,
2013.
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| Series: | Culture and politics of health care work.
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Table of Contents:
- The voyage into the sea of critical illness
- Diagnosis, diagnosis, diagnosis
- Nursing isn't a journey
- One more day
- The dream of cure
- Nursing : what it is and what it is not
- Caring
- Medicine as ghost rain
- Dying
- Poetic and tragic murmurings of the everyday
- They tell us everything
- Can they hear?
- Leaving ends the love
- The horizon.