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Conflicted Health Care: Professionalism and Caring in an Urban Hospital
Apesoa-Varano, Ester Carolina, Varano, Charles S.
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Description for Conflicted Health Care: Professionalism and Caring in an Urban Hospital
Teamwork and conflict among five kinds of health care practitioners as they interact with patients and each other on the hospital floor Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: MBD; MBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 318.
Anyone who has spent time in a hospital as a patient or family member of a patient hopes that those who attend to us or our loved ones are at their professional best and that they care for us in ways that console us and preserve our dignity. This book takes an intimate look at how health care practitioners struggle to live up to their professional and caring ideals through (or during?) twelve-hour shifts on the hospital floor.
From 3,200 hours of participant-observation and 500 hours of follow-up interviews with twenty-one doctors, thirty registered nurses, twenty-one respiratory therapists, twenty ... Read more
Anyone who has spent time in a hospital as a patient or family member of a patient hopes that those who attend to us or our loved ones are at their professional best and that they care for us in ways that console us and preserve our dignity. This book takes an intimate look at how health care practitioners struggle to live up to their professional and caring ideals through (or during?) twelve-hour shifts on the hospital floor.
From 3,200 hours of participant-observation and 500 hours of follow-up interviews with twenty-one doctors, thirty registered nurses, twenty-one respiratory therapists, twenty ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Tennessee, United States
ISBN
9780826520081
SKU
V9780826520081
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-3
About Apesoa-Varano, Ester Carolina, Varano, Charles S.
Ester Carolina Apesoa-Varano, a sociologist with research interests in nursing, health care, women's health, and geriatrics, is an assistant professor at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at University of California, Davis. Charles S. Varano, Associate Professor of Sociology, California State University, Sacramento, is the author of Forced Choices: Class, Community, and Worker Ownership.
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