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Nurses' Work, The Sacred and The Profane (Paperback)
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Nurses' Work, The Sacred and The Profane (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Health, Illness, and Caregiving
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Today, birth, suffering, healing, and death--all powerful
experiences--are closely associated with nurses. In Nurses' Work,
The Sacred and The Profane, Zane Robinson Wolf reveals and examines
the rituals nurses unconsciously establish to help them face their
everyday involvement with the sacred events of human life. The
nurses on 7H (a medical unit in the large urban hospital where Wolf
did her research), like nurses everywhere, are under tremendous
pressure. They must balance the more mundane tasks incolved in
caring for the sick with a daunting variety of moral and ethical
dilemmas. A nurse can, on any given day, go from emptying a bedpan
to participating in a decision whether to resuscitate a terminally
ill patient. Rituals--patterned, symbolic actions--help nurses
perform their difficult tasks. In this insightful study, Wolf
considers the universal nursing rituals associated with
change-of-shift report, administering medication, bathing patients,
and, most significantly, providing post-mortem care. Because she is
a nurse, Wolf brings firsthand knowledge of the day-to-day work of
nurses to her innovative examination of these widely practiced but
little studied rituals. Nurses' Work, The Sacred and The Profane
will be invaluable to nurses, historians and teachers of nursing,
and sociologists.
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