Themes and Perspectives in Nursing

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Front Matter....Pages 1-3
Nursing and doctoring: where’s the difference?....Pages 4-15
The media representation of the nurse: the implications for nursing....Pages 16-40
Nursing, advertising and sponsorship: some ethical issues....Pages 41-55
NHS nursing: vocation, career or just a job?....Pages 56-74
Conceptions of the nature of persons by doctors, nurses and teachers....Pages 75-88
Front Matter....Pages 89-90
The nurses’ reformation: philosophy and pragmatics of Project 2000....Pages 91-100
Interpersonal and therapeutic skills in the ‘New Curriculum’ for nurse education....Pages 101-113
Performance indicators and changing patterns of accountability in nurse education....Pages 114-137
Professional conceptions of mental illness and related issues....Pages 138-154
Front Matter....Pages 155-157
Patient advocacy in nursing....Pages 158-180
Assessing the stress in persons with cancer: an exploration of the main perspectives of stress in relation to their psychological care....Pages 181-195
Conceptions of care....Pages 196-213
Nursing wastage from the nurses’ perspective....Pages 214-230
Difficulties in provision of care for the elderly by auxiliaries — implications for the new support worker....Pages 231-244
Considerations of personhood in nursing research: an ethical perspective....Pages 245-258
Front Matter....Pages 259-260
Managing nurse wastage....Pages 261-275
Nurse supply modelling....Pages 276-292
Angels in red? patterns of union membership amongst UK professional nurses....Pages 293-309
Nurses and the prospects of participative management in the NHS....Pages 310-330
Back Matter....Pages 331-338