Description:This book aims to introduce nurses and other healthcare professionals to how anthropology can help them understand nursing as a profession and as a culture.Drawing on key anthropological concepts, the book facilitates the understanding and critical consideration of nursing practice as seen across a wide range of health care contexts, and which impacts the delivery of appropriate care for service users. Considering the fields in which nurses work, the book argues that in order for nurses to optimize their roles as deliverers of patient care they must not only engage with the realities of the cultural world of the patient but also that of their own multi-professional cultural environment.The only book currently in the field on anthropology of nursing, this book will be a valuable resource for nursing students at all academic levels, especially where they can pursue specific modules in the subject, as well as tholse other students pursuing medical anthropology courses. In addition, it will be an essential text for those post-graduate students who wish to consider alternative world views from anthropology and their application in nursing and healthcare, in addition to their undertaking ethnographic research to explore nursing in all its fields of practice.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Anthropology of Nursing: Exploring Cultural Concepts in Practice. To get started finding Anthropology of Nursing: Exploring Cultural Concepts in Practice, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Anthropology of Nursing: Exploring Cultural Concepts in Practice
Description: This book aims to introduce nurses and other healthcare professionals to how anthropology can help them understand nursing as a profession and as a culture.Drawing on key anthropological concepts, the book facilitates the understanding and critical consideration of nursing practice as seen across a wide range of health care contexts, and which impacts the delivery of appropriate care for service users. Considering the fields in which nurses work, the book argues that in order for nurses to optimize their roles as deliverers of patient care they must not only engage with the realities of the cultural world of the patient but also that of their own multi-professional cultural environment.The only book currently in the field on anthropology of nursing, this book will be a valuable resource for nursing students at all academic levels, especially where they can pursue specific modules in the subject, as well as tholse other students pursuing medical anthropology courses. In addition, it will be an essential text for those post-graduate students who wish to consider alternative world views from anthropology and their application in nursing and healthcare, in addition to their undertaking ethnographic research to explore nursing in all its fields of practice.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Anthropology of Nursing: Exploring Cultural Concepts in Practice. To get started finding Anthropology of Nursing: Exploring Cultural Concepts in Practice, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.