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What makes a good nurse : why the virtues are important for nurses / Derek Sellman ; foreword by Alan Cribb.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sellman, Derek.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nursing--Philosophy.
- Nursing.
- Values.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (226 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Derek Sellman sets 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 an explanation of why and how nurses should strive to cultivate these virtues, as well as the implications of this for practice.
- Contents:
- Professional nursing
- Human vulnerability
- Practices and the practice of nursing
- Trust and trustworthiness
- Open-mindedness
- The place of the virtues in the education of nurses.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786613146182
- 9781283146180
- 1283146185
- 9780857004529
- 0857004522
- OCLC:
- 753974807
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