Choosing End of Life Nursing - Couverture rigide

Bardy, Susan

 
9781925309263: Choosing End of Life Nursing
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ISBN 10 : 1925309266 ISBN 13 : 9781925309263
Editeur : ATF Press, 2016

Synopsis

Death is inevitable none of us will escape it. Ending life with a terminal illness is a slow and rather lonely process. I am interested in the question of why some nurses choose to work in the field of palliative care. I am one who willingly stepped into the role of being with patients at their most vulnerable time when death became inevitable. My nursing history has spanned fifty years, of which the last twenty were in palliative care of terminally ill and dying patients. What was it that influenced me to move from a curing model to comfort caring only? My work is an account of how I discovered palliative care nursing after thirty years in the acute-care setting. I migrated to Australia at the age of seventeen after the violence of World War II and the death of my father in a refugee camp. It seemed that taking on nursing was the best way to settle into a new life. I was happy with general nursing but had a feeling that there was more I could contribute to my patient care. My mother s unexpected death with cancer was responsible for showing the way. She died in the hospice unit of the hospital where I was employed. Sitting by her side showed me another aspect of nursing that attracted me to a career change. I transferred to the Hospice after mother died and remained there for twenty years. Naturally I wondered why this change of direction happened. - Susan Bardy

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‘Death is inevitable—none of us will escape it. Ending life with a terminal illness is a slow and rather lonely process. I am interested in the question of why some nurses choose to work in the field of palliative care. I am one who willingly stepped into the role of being with patients at their most vulnerable time —when death became inevitable. My nursing history has spanned fifty years, of which the last twenty were in palliative care of terminally ill and dying patients. What was it that influenced me to move from a curing model to comfort caring only? My work is an account of how I discovered palliative care nursing after thirty years in the acute-care setting. I migrated to Australia at the age of seventeen after the violence of World War II and the death of my father in a refugee camp. It seemed that taking on nursing was the best way to settle into a new life. I was happy with general nursing but had a feeling that there was more I could contribute to my patient care. My mother’s unexpected death with cancer was responsible for showing the way. She died in the hospice unit of the hospital where I was employed. Sitting by her side showed me another aspect of nursing that attracted me to a career change. I transferred to the Hospice after mother died and remained there for twenty years. Naturally I wondered why this change of direction happened.’ - Susan Bardy

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Éditeur
ATF Press
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1925309266
ISBN 13 
9781925309263
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
120
Coordonnées du fabricant
Buchpark GmbH
https://www.buchpark.de

Krügerweg 1
Trebbin
Brandenburg
14959
Allemagne

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ISBN 10 :  1925309258 ISBN 13 :  9781925309256
Editeur : ATF Press, 2016
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