Catheters, slurs, and pickup lines : professional intimacy in hospital nursing / Lisa C. Ruchti.
Every day, hospital nurses must negotiate intimate trust and intimate conflict in an effort to provide quality health care. However, interactions between nurses and patients - which often require issues of privacy - are sometimes made more uncomfortable with inappropriate behaviour, as when a patien...
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Philadelphia, Pa. :
Temple University Press,
[2012]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Fantasies and Realities in Nursing Care; 1: Invisible Intimacy in Nursing; 2: Intimate Care Work as Social Negotiation; 3: Catheters, Communications, and Intimate Trust; 4: Slurs, Pick-up Lines, and Intimate Conflicts;; 5: Individual and Collective Intimate Strategies; Conclusion: A Call for Professional Intimacy and Continued Research; Appendix A: How and Why this is Feminist Research; Appendix B: Nurse Demographics; Appendix C: Nurse Advertisements.