Taking care the story of nursing and its power to change our world
"Nurses have always been vital to human existence. A nurse was likely there when you were born and a nurse might well be there when you die. Familiar in hospitals and doctors' offices, these dedicated health professionals can also be found in schools, prisons, and people's homes; at s...
| Main Author: | DiGregorio, Sarah (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2023]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Origins: to nurse is to be human: reclaiming a history
- Hierarchy: the making of a big lie: essentially female, always subordinate
- Identity: who is a nurse? the wartime struggle for the right to care
- Community: libraries, church basements, and tenement houses: nursing at work in everyday lives
- Endings: nursing beyond cures: the radical promise of hospice
- Autonomy: the fight for choices: a complicated story of nurses, birth control, and abortion
- Environment: seeing the future: nursing in a swiftly changing climate
- Addiction: staying alive: how radical acceptance can transform substance use care
- Collective: no angels: nursing as labor
- Power: taking charge: what we all gain when good nurses govern.