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Autore |
Ruchti Lisa C (Lisa Camille), <1970-> |
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Catheters, slurs, and pickup lines [[electronic resource] ] : professional intimacy in hospital nursing / / Lisa C. Ruchti |
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Philadelphia, Pa., : Temple University Press, c2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-4399-0754-4 |
1-280-12816-X |
9786613532046 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (227 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Nurse and patient |
Nursing - Social aspects |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Fantasies and Realities in Nursing Care; 1. Invisible Intimacy in Nursing; 2. Social and Commercial Aspects of Intimate Care Work; 3. Catheters, Communications, and Intimate Trust; 4. Slurs, Pickup Lines, and Intimate Conflicts; 5. Individual and Collective Intimate Strategies; Conclusion: A Call for Collective Nursing Practices and Continued Research; Appendix A: Why I Define My Research as Feminist; Appendix B: Nurse Demographics; Appendix C: Illustrations: Model of Professional Intimacy and Nursing School Recruitment; Notes; References; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Every day, hospital nurses must negotiate intimate trust and intimate conflict in an effort to provide quality health care. However, interactions between nurses and patients-which often require issues of privacy-are sometimes made more uncomfortable with inappropriate behavior, as when a patient has a racist and/or sexist outburst. Not all nurses are prepared to handle such intimacy, but they can all learn how to ""be caring.""In Catheters, Slurs, and Pickup Lines, Lisa Ruchti carefully examines this fragile relationship between intimacy and professional care, and provid |
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