What Makes a Good Nurse: Why the Virtues are Important for NursesIn recent years, the human values at the heart of the nursing profession seem to have become side-lined by an increased focus on managerialist approaches to health care provision. Nursing's values are in danger of becoming marginalised further precisely because that which nursing does best - providing care and helping individuals through the human trauma of illness - is difficult to measure, and therefore plays little, if any, part in official accounts of outcome measures. |
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2 Human Vulnerability | 49 |
3 Practices and the Practice of Nursing | 76 |
4 Trust and Trustworthiness | 108 |
5 Openmindedness | 152 |
6 The Place of the Virtues in the Education of Nurses | 177 |
Conclusion | 203 |
Endnotes | 208 |
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What Makes a Good Nurse: Why the Virtues Are Important for Nurses Derek Sellman,Alan Cribb Limited preview - 2011 |