Routledge Research in Nursing and Midwifery
Clinical Nursing Skills Education and the Impact of Socio-Cultural Learning Context
1st Edition
By Irene Wong
June 02, 2026
This book examines how sociocultural context affects the nursing students learning. It builds on this to introduce a new approach for educators to effectively teach clinical skills by taking these contexts into account, whether they are in the skills laboratory, the ward or the classroom. Moving ...
Why Nurses Remain in the Nursing Profession: Insights and Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Margareth Kristoffersen
February 18, 2026
This groundbreaking volume investigates why practicing nurses decide to remain in the profession. Combining insights from theoretical perspectives with empirical findings from over a decade of research, it sheds light on a vital topic for healthcare services and nurses globally. Skilled ...
Experiencing Death in the Emergency Department: How Healthcare Professionals Experience, Make Sense of, and are Influenced by, Death and Dying
1st Edition
By Laszlo Penzes
December 30, 2025
This book draws on original research to illuminate how the personal values and norms of healthcare professionals in the Emergency Department (ED) influence how they experience the death of a patient, and develop tools and strategies to cope with these experiences. Experiencing death in the ED ...
The Battle over Birth: Unpacking the Contested Space of Childbirth
1st Edition
Edited
By Nicole Thualagant, Katja Schrøder
November 18, 2025
Childbirth is a site of ongoing struggle over meaning, authority, regulation and control. This edited collection offers critical perspectives on current challenges in birth care by exploring how birth is shaped by competing epistemologies: medical, cultural, experiential and political. The book ...
Celebrating Women in Higher Education: A Case of Nurses and Midwives
1st Edition
By Jo Divers, Sam Chenery-Morris
November 03, 2025
This book considers the structure and demographics of the workforce in nursing and midwifery higher education, observing the gender divide, highlighting the impact of intersectionality, and exploring the challenges and opportunities this provides. Divers and Chenery-Morris look at the power of ...
Researching Racism in Nursing: Reflexive Accounts and Personal Stories
1st Edition
Edited
By Helen Allan, Michael Traynor
August 29, 2025
Research shows that racism affects the working lives of nurses and nurse academics, as well as healthcare service delivery and outcomes. This book looks at the impact of racism, from experiences of microaggression to discrimination and structural and institutionalised racism. Focusing on the work ...
Caring in Context: An Ethnography of Cancer Nursing in India
1st Edition
By Virginia LeBaron
July 31, 2025
Drawing on ethnographic research conducted by an American nurse, Caring in Context is an exploration of how most of the world experiences cancer, and how nurses bear witness and respond to the suffering of others when they have little means to help—or for complex reasons, choose not to. This ...
Complexity and Values in Nurse Education: Dialogues on Professional Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Martin Lipscomb
May 27, 2024
This work explores the interplay of complexity and values in nurse education from a variety of vantages. Contributors, who come from a range of international and disciplinary backgrounds, critically engage important and problematic topics that are under-investigated elsewhere. Taking an ...
Nursing Theory, Postmodernism, Post-structuralism, and Foucault
1st Edition
By Olga Petrovskaya
May 27, 2024
Nursing Theory, Postmodernism, Post-structuralism, and Foucault critiques mainstream American nursing theory and its use of post-structural theory, comparing and contrasting how postmodern and post-structural ideas have been used fruitfully in nursing research and theorizing elsewhere. In the late ...
Nursing a Radical Imagination: Moving from Theory and History to Action and Alternate Futures
1st Edition
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By Jess Dillard-Wright, Jane Hopkins-Walsh, Brandon Brown
May 27, 2024
Examining the historical context of healthcare whilst focusing on building a more just, equitable world, this book proposes a radical imagination for nursing and presents possibilities for speculative futures embracing queer, feminist, posthuman, and abolitionist frames. Bringing together radical ...
Substance Use, End-of-Life Care and Multiple Deprivation: Practice and Research
1st Edition
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By Gary Witham, Sarah Galvani, Sam Wright, Gemma A. Yarwood
May 27, 2024
Focussing on end-of-life care for people who use, or have used, substances, this book explores their social and health care needs and the multiple disadvantages they have often experienced, discussing the complexities around access to care that result. Presenting models of good practice, case ...
Grading Student Midwives’ Practice: A Case Study Exploring Relationships, Identity and Authority
1st Edition
By Sam Chenery-Morris
May 31, 2023
This book investigates the education and assessment of student midwives in clinical practice, paying particular attention to how their practice is graded. Chenery-Morris brings primary research, which explores students, mentors, and midwifery lecturers perspectives of practice learning and its ...