Sellman Derek - What Makes A Good Nurse Why The Virtues Are Important For Nurses - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: In recent years the human values at the heart of the nursing profession seem to have become side - lined by an increased focus on managerialist approaches to health care provision. Nursing's values are in danger of becoming marginalised further precisely because that which nursing does best - providing care and helping individuals through the human trauma of illness - is difficult to measure and therefore plays little if any part in official accounts of outcome measures. Derek Sellman sets out the case for re - establishing the primacy of the virtues that underpin the practice of nursing in order to address the question: what makes a good nurse? He provides those in the caring professions with both a rationale and a practical understanding of the importance that particular character traits including justice courage honesty trustworthiness and open - mindedness play in the practice of nursing and explains why and how nurses should strive to cultivate these virtues as well as the implications of this for practice. This original and thought - provoking book will be essential reading for nurses and nursing students care workers care commissioners and many others who work in the caring professions.
Title: What Makes A Good Nurse Why The Virtues Are Important For Nurses
Author(s): Sellman Derek
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Barcode: 9781843109327
Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Date: 5/1/2011
Category: Nursing