Nurses' Work, the Sacred and the Profane

"Conveys the most vivid sense of nurses' daily work."-Women's Review of Books "Wolf, a professor of nursing, identifies four fundamental rituals-postmortem procedures, administering medication, aseptic practices, and change-of-shift reports-and how these arts are learned and practiced in a large urban hospital... Excellent."-Library Journal "Wolf's dramatic portrayal of nurses and nursing holds the reader's attention throughout and is recommended to anyone who wants to know what hospital bedside nurses do and how they feel about what they do."-Pennsylvania Nurse

About the author

By Zane Robinson Wolf

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Zane Robinson Wolf
• Publisher: University Of Pennsylvania Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.1988
• EAN: 9780812212662
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-1266-2
• No. of pages: 324
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 230 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 531 g
• Series: Studies in Health, Illness, and Caregiving; Studies in Health, Illness & C; Studies in Health, Illness, and Caregiving; Studies in Health, Illness & C; Studies in Health, Illness, an
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Pop Arts / Pop Culture