The complexities of care : nursing reconsidered / edited by Sioban Nelson and Suzanne Gordon. - Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006. - vii, 211 p. cm. - The culture and politics of health care work .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-204) and index.

Moving beyond the virtue script in nursing : creating a knowledge-based identity for nurses / Suzanne Gordon and Sioban Nelson -- When little things are big things : the importance of relationships for nurses' professional practice / Dana Beth Weinberg -- Pride and prejudice : nurses' struggle with reasoned debate / Diana J. Mason -- Moral integrity and regret in nursing / Lydia L. Moland -- Ethical expertise and the problem of the good nurse / Sioban Nelson -- From sickness to health / Tom Keighley -- The new Cartesianism : dividing mind and body and thus disembodying care / Suzanne Gordon -- Nurses must be clever to care / Sanchia Aranda and Rosie Brown -- "You don't want to stay here" : surgical nursing and the disappearance of patient recovery time / Marie Heartfield -- Research on nurse staffing and its outcomes : challenges and risks / Sean Clarke -- Nurses wanted : sentimental men and women need not apply / Sioban Nelson and Suzanne Gordon.

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Nursing.
Nursing--Philosophy.
Nursing ethics.
Nursing--Social aspects.
Care of the sick.
Nursing Care.
Philosophy, Nursing.
Ethics, Nursing.

RT82 / .C655 2006

610.73

WY 100 / C7375 2006