Routledge Research in Nursing and Midwifery
Nursing and Humanities
1st Edition
By Graham McCaffrey
May 31, 2023
The humanities have long been recognized as having a place in nursing knowledge, and have been used in education, theory, and research by nurses. However, the place of humanities in nursing has always remained ambiguous. This book offers an in-depth exploration of the relationship between ...
Motherhood, Spirituality and Culture
1st Edition
By Noelia Molina
September 30, 2021
Motherhood, Spirituality and Culture explores spiritual skills that may assist women in changes, challenges and transformations undergone through the transition to motherhood. This study comprises rich, qualitative data gathered from interviews with 11 mothers. Results are analysed by constructing ...
Paradoxes in Nurses’ Identity, Culture and Image: The Shadow Side of Nursing
1st Edition
By Margaret McAllister, Donna Brien
September 30, 2021
This book examines some of the more disturbing representations of nurses in popular culture, to understand nursing’s complex identities, challenges and future directions.It critically analyses disquieting representations of nurses who don’t care, who kill, who inspire fear or who do not comply with...
Birthing Outside the System: The Canary in the Coal Mine
1st Edition
Edited
By Hannah Dahlen, Bashi Kumar-Hazard, Virginia Schmied
June 30, 2021
This book investigates why women choose ‘birth outside the system’ and makes connections between women’s right to choose where they birth and violations of human rights within maternity care systems. Choosing to birth at home can force women out of mainstream maternity care, despite research ...
Joy at Birth: An Interpretive, Hermeneutic, Phenomenological Inquiry
1st Edition
By Susan Crowther
June 30, 2021
To be at the birth of a baby is special, yet there is an increasing secularisation and reliance on technology in contemporary maternity care, particularly in the western context. Through exploration of experiences at birth this book explores joy at birth, which is often ignored and overlooked ...
A Theory of Cancer Care in Healthcare Settings
1st Edition
Edited
By Carol Cox, Maya Zumstein-Shaha
March 31, 2021
This book provides healthcare professionals with a practice theory for the care and management of patients who have been diagnosed with cancer. It explores what patients experience and how healthcare professionals can assist them in dealing with their uncertainty and fear as well as planning for ...
Pragmatic Children’s Nursing: A Theory for Children and their Childhoods
1st Edition
By Duncan Randall
June 29, 2017
Pragmatic Children’s Nursing is the first attempt to create a paediatric nursing theory which argues for the importance of giving children living with illness access to a childhood which is, as far as possible, equal to that of their peers. Set in the historical context of the development of ...