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 thirtee...

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Autore principale: Kelly, James, 1948-
Ente Autore: ebrary, Inc
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Ithaca : ILR Press, 2013.
Serie:Culture and politics of health care work.
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Accesso online:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Sommario:
  • 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.