Where Night Is Day : : The World of the ICU / / James Kelly.

"There is no night in the ICU. There is day, lesser day, then day again. There are rhythms. Every twelve hours: shift change. Report: first all together in the big room, then at the bedside, nurse to nurse. Morning rounds. A group of doctors moves slowly through the unit like a harrow through a...

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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Voyage into the Sea of Critical Illness
  • 2 Diagnosis, Diagnosis, Diagnosis
  • 3 Nursing isn’t a Journey
  • 4 One More Day
  • 5 The Dream of Cure
  • 6 Nursing: What it is and what it is not
  • 7 Caring
  • 8 Medicine as Ghost Rain
  • 9 Dying
  • 10 Poetic and Tragic Murmurings of the Everyday
  • 11 They Tell Us Everything
  • 12 Can They Hear?
  • 13 Leaving Ends the Love
  • 14 The Horizon
  • Epilogue
  • Notes