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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781485403321

Autore

Davis Cortney <1945->

Titolo

The heart's truth [[electronic resource] ] : essays on the art of nursing / / Cortney Davis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Kent, Ohio, : Kent State University Press, c2009

ISBN

1-283-14668-1

9786613146687

1-61277-559-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (115 p.)

Collana

Literature and medicine ; ; 17

Disciplina

610.73

Soggetti

Nursing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; The Other Side of Illness; Washing Mrs. Cardiff's Feet; The Evening Back Rub; Being at the Bedside of the Dying; First Night in Charge; Talking to No One; Nursing and the Word; Beyond Scientific Explanation; Weekly Rounds; Twenty-four Hours in the Life of a Nurse Practitioner; First, Do No Harm; Hearing the Stories behind Our Patients' Words; Body Teaching; Tattoos; Breaking Bad News; Becoming Flora; Raped; The Heart's Truth; Watching ER; Feeding the Deer; When Their Rhythms Become Mine; I Believe in Grief

Human Feelings, Human ExperiencesConscious Suffering; Afterword; Acknowledgments