The Nurse as Wounded Healer

The Nurse as Wounded Healer
Author: Marion Conti-O'Hare
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2002
Genre: Nurses
ISBN: 9780763715687

This work depicts the evolution of the wounded healer phenomenon and its impace on the practice of nursing. It explores how healing has been defined in the past, and emphasizes the changing focus necessary to meet the relevant health care needs of an increasingly wounded society in the 21st century.

Healing This Wounded Earth

Healing This Wounded Earth
Author: Eleanor Stoneham
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2011-03-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1846944457

The world is seriously wounded threatened by violence egocentricity and mass consumerism. Government intervention alone will never solve society's problems. We need personal responsibility and healing on a global scale. This carefully researched book skillfully weaves science and spirituality with philosophy and ancient wisdom using potent imagery of the Wounded Healer embodied in the life of Jesus Christ the story of the healing centaur Chiron and the work of the indigenous shaman. Through suffering his own physical and mental wounds the Wounded Healer acquires a special empathy for recognizing and healing the wounds of others. This book is full of hope as it speaks to a palpable global shift towards holistic and spiritual values. Through the healing needs of relationship our economy our environment and the living Gaia and finally the curing professions of pastoral and medical care it shows how we may all become catalysts for social change for a happier and more peaceful world.

Spirituality in Nursing

Spirituality in Nursing
Author: Mary Elizabeth O'Brien
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2003
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780763700522

This invaluable resource explores the relationship between spirituality and thepractice of nursing from a variety of perspectives, including:* Nursing assessment of patients' spiritual needs* The nurse's role in the provision of spiritual care* The spiritual nature of the nurse-patient relationship* The spiritual history of the nursing profession

Wound Care

Wound Care
Author: Carrie Sussman
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Total Pages: 786
Release: 2007
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780781774444

Designed for health care professionals in multiple disciplines and clinical settings, this comprehensive, evidence-based wound care text provides basic and advanced information on wound healing and therapies and emphasizes clinical decision-making. The text integrates the latest scientific findings with principles of good wound care and provides a complete set of current, evidence-based practices. This edition features a new chapter on wound pain management and a chapter showing how to use negative pressure therapy on many types of hard-to-heal wounds. Technological advances covered include ultrasound for wound debridement, laser treatments, and a single-patient-use disposable device for delivering pulsed radio frequency.

Providing HIV Care: Lessons from the Field for Nurses and Healthcare Practitioners

Providing HIV Care: Lessons from the Field for Nurses and Healthcare Practitioners
Author: Michelle Croston
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2021-05-05
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3030712958

This very first book helps nurses and healthcare practitioners working in the field of HIV care across European to have practical examples of how they could improve/ adapt their services to improve outcomes for people living with HIV. It provides the reader with both knowledge on a variety of different HIV related topic areas and also helps them to translate this learning into a clinical setting. The main focus of the book is to share best practice in HIV nursing, with the aim of providing a practical guide from multiple countries to improve outcomes for people living with HIV. The book also acts as a resource to healthcare practitioners who are interested in working in many places in the world or carrying out research in HIV care.

Core Curriculum for Holistic Nursing

Core Curriculum for Holistic Nursing
Author: Barbara Montgomery Dossey
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Total Pages: 414
Release: 1997
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780834208704

Nurses are increasingly aware of the need to blend technology, mind, and spirit in creating optimal circumstances for healing. The American Holistic Nurses Association, with Barbara Dossey, a pioneer and leader in the field, has created a core curriculum that will provide a blueprint for what it means to be a holistic nurse. This text can also serve as a study guide for the AHNCC exam. Core Curriculum for Holistic Nursing has a broad appeal to nurses new to holistic concepts as well as those who are already experts.

Wounded Healers

Wounded Healers
Author: Vicky Rippere
Publisher:
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1985
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

This edited volume of personal experiences of depression has been written by mental health workers, and is the most comprehensive collection of phenomenological accounts of depression in the English language.

Chronic Illness and Disability

Chronic Illness and Disability
Author: Esther Chang
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages: 585
Release: 2014
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0729541614

This text provides evidence-based principles for practice for chronic illness and disability. It provides a solid theoretical and practical foundation for students in their 2nd and 3rd years. The book includes a holistic framework for major and common chronic illness and disability.

The Healer's Calling

The Healer's Calling
Author: Kilbride-Clinton Professor of Medicine and Ethics Daniel P Sulmasy, O.F.M., M.D.
Publisher: Paulist Press
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2014-05-14
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1616433396

The Healer's Calling addresses the longings of many people in the health care professions for a renewed sense of the transcendent meaning of their work, and for a return to the spiritual elements of healing.

Nursing Ethics: Across the Curriculum and Into Practice

Nursing Ethics: Across the Curriculum and Into Practice
Author: Janie B. Butts
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2022-09-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1284286258

Nursing Ethics: Across the Curriculum and Into Practice continues to provide a solid ethical foundation for nursing students in an updated sixth edition. This comprehensive, easy-to-read text covers ethics across the nursing curriculum, making it a perfect fit for any undergraduate course. Logically divided into three parts, Nursing Ethics, Sixth Edition underscores how ethics is interwoven with nearly every aspect of professional nursing practice. It guides students through the foundations of ethics in nursing, ethical considerations across the lifespan, and ethical considerations for areas such as leadership and public health. Engaging learning features, including case studies, legal perspectives, and research notes bring concepts to life and serve to remind students that ethics really does sit at the heart of professional nursing practice and quality patient care.