The nature of suffering and the goals of nursing
By: Betty R. Ferrell, Nessa Coyle.
Contributors: Coyle, Nessa.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9780195333121
Subjects: Nursing -- Philosophy; Suffering; Nurse and patient; Nursing Care; Terminal Care; Nurses -- psychology; Pain -- nursing; Palliative Care
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [111]-120) and index.
Table of contents: title: Suffering and the practice of nursing; title: Ethical and theological perspectives on the nature of suffering and the goals of nursing; title: Contextual analysis of patient suffering; title: The suffering of nurses; title: What is the nature of suffering and the goals of nursing.