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Professional and Patient Responsibilities in Home Health Care Nursing
DescriptionDiscussions in this book include home care nursing, who enters home care, what home health care nurses do, and working relationships. Table of ContentsTable of Contents:
1.Home Care Nursing: new meanings; more than women's work; interviews with home health care nurses; observation of home care nurses; patient interviews; hospital nurse interviews and observation; mail questionnaire
2.Who Enters Home Care: change in the life course; nursing gets medical; the cohort effect; transitions; return to ideals
3.What Home Health Care Nurses Do: distinctly nursing; little time for the real caring; making time in Waterview; opening a case – first visit with Ethel Langston; the usual at Waterview; re-visit to Mrs. Margeaux Evian; an exception among hospital care
4.Doctors and Nurses – and Patients: on hospital grounds; tensions unveiled; home care advantage; leaving the bother to nurses; the nurse's gain
5.Working Relationships: working together – the hospital mentality; the tensions of teamwork; on their own – home health care nursing; home care and technical support; a different kind of social support; less to say about supervisors; price of independence
6.Something to Look Forward to – Nurses' Relationships with Patients: the hospital-produced relationship; afraid of the future; a patient-centered relationship – the home health difference intimacy and its price importance of patient census; reliance on caregivers
7.Autonomy Revisited, New sources in Home Care: making sense of autonomy in home care; the impulse to disassociate; collective we fall
8.Conclusion: costs control home care nurses
References, Index
ISBN10: 0-7734-7975-9 ISBN13: 978-0-7734-7975-3 Pages: 196 Year: 1999
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