Stories of resilience in nursing : tales from the frontline of nursing / Michael Traynor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Traynor, Michael, 1956- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nursing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (117 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

Ideas about resilience and identity continue to be promoted, discussed and debated in nursing. This book uses narratives to explore these complex and important concepts, unsettling our certainties and opening up new perspectives on what they might mean and involve. This engaging book recounts direct and vivid stories told by or about nurses. These vignettes discuss nursing's ideals without idealising them and show nursing work and the lives of nurses in alltheir complexity. They include contributions from mental health nurses, a former nurse, student nurses, a migrant nurse and a whistle-blowing nurse, among others. The book ends with chapter-by-chapter contextual material to promote reflection, discussion and further reading. Written with nursing students preparing to transition to the workplace and professional status in mind, this thought-provoking book is also suitable for nurses and nurse academics interested in resilience and issues around professional identity.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of contents

List of Figures

Part I

1 Let me tell you about this book

Nurses under pressure

How to use this book

On a personal level

2 A tale told by a nurse…

Narrative, story and narrative research

What are stories?

Stories are everywhere

Narrative research

Psychoanalysis and stories

How have stories been used in nursing?

As a formal part of nurse education

As a way of understanding professional socialisation

How does storytelling relate to resilience?

Summary

3 Resilience The story so far

A very short history of resilience

Resilience research and nursing

Neoliberalism and responsibilisation

Is resilience any use?

'Critical resilience'

Oh no, not more 'C' words

Part II

4 Carol, the nurse who went on strike

Tell me about what happened.

You were saying that in your trust only some nurses took it up?

What particular marches?

How did you decide to do that?

So when was this?

What was most interesting?

So what were the managers like at that time? Managers are in a difficult position-or can be.

It's good to hear stories like that, because sometimes it seems they are few and far between.

5 Beverley, the student nurse who refused to fear

Beverley's story

Reflections on critical pedagogy

6 Laura, student nurses and 'real' nurses

7 Polly, the nurse who wrote poetry and went missing

You and me

Falling

Specialing Pena-Shokeir 2 syndrome / Nightshift in the hospital / A nurse's empathy

Nightshift / A mother's empathy

8 Simone, the nurse who stood in solidarity: Working on the border between religion, madness and profession

9 John, the trauma nurse

10 Miriam's story

11 An anonymous story

12 Yasmin, the nurse who was bullied and who bit back.

13 Marta, the migrant nurse

Part III

14 How to use the stories

Carole, the nurse who went on strike

Questions

Beverley, the student nurse who refused to fear

Laura, student nurses and 'real' nurses

Polly, the student nurse who wrote poetry and went missing

Simone, the nurse who stood in solidarity: working on the border between religion, madness and profession

John the trauma nurse

Miriam's story

An anonymous story

Yasmin, the nurse who was bullied and who bit back

Reading

Marta, the migrant nurse

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-351-05025-7

1-351-05026-5

1-351-05027-3

9781351050272

OCLC:

1114504896