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Therapeutic nursing : improving patient care through self-awareness and reflection / edited by Dawn Freshwater.
LIBRA RT76 .T44 2002
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nursing.
- Nursing--Study and teaching (Continuing education).
- Self-knowledge, Theory of.
- Introspection.
- Education, Nursing, Continuing.
- Medical Subjects:
- Nursing.
- Education, Nursing, Continuing.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 198 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : SAGE, 2002.
- Summary:
- This innovative text explores the ways in which self-awareness can be used as a practical tool for continuing professional development and practice improvement. In nursing especially, the ability to evaluate oneself affects all areas of practice, including direct patient care, working relationships with colleagues and maintaining one's own wellbeing.
- For all those wishing to develop their skills as autonomous, reflective, accountable practitioners, this book will be an inspiring read. It will be of immense use to those who teach and supervise nurses at all levels.
- Contents:
- 1 The Therapeutic Use of Self in Nursing / Dawn Freshwater 1
- Part I The Practitioner's Perspective 17
- 2 The Importance of Philosophical Congruence for Therapeutic Use of Self in Practice / Roderick McKenzie 22
- 3 Therapeutic Nursing and Technology: Clinical Supervision and Reflective Practice in a Critical Care Setting / Jill Down 39
- 4 The Role of the Internal Supervisor in Developing Therapeutic Nursing / Gillian Todd 58
- Part II The Educationalist's Perspective 83
- 5 Transformative Learning: Enabling Therapeutic Nursing / Jacqueline Randle 87
- 6 Aesthetic Ways in Day-to-day Nursing / Marilyn E. Parker 100
- 7 Nursing Students' Development of Caring Self Through Creative Reflective Practice / A. Lynne Wagner 121
- Part III The Researcher's Perspective 145
- 8 A Praxis Model of Research for Therapeutic Nursing / Carol Picard 149
- 9 Individual Identity or Deviant Case? / Tessa Muncey 162
- 10 Reflexive Research and the Therapeutic Use of Self / Gary Rolfe 179.
- ISBN:
- 0761970630 :
- 0761970649
- OCLC:
- 49783710
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