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Author Traynor, Michael

Title Critical Resilience for Nurses : an Evidence-Based Guide to Survival and Change in the Modern NHS
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (185 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Author's introduction; Acknowledgements; 1 Resilience: where did it come from? Research on resilience and its use in nursing; Origins of research into resilience: psychoanalysis and trauma; A debate develops: can resilience be grown?; Four waves of resilience research?; Resilience and nursing; 2 The limits of resilience: introducing 'critical resilience'; Resilience as wish fulfilment; Resilience and 'responsibilization'; The focus of resilience is individualistic; Critiques of resilience from radical social justice
Is the argument for resilience circular?So is resilience any use?; Help, why shouldn't I build up resilience?; It's decision time: what are the alternatives?; An alternative: critical resilience; What is critique and how is it different from 'criticism' or 'complaint'?; 3 How compassionate are you?; Why compassion? Why now?; What happens to nurses who care?; When good people do bad things; Compassion, empathy and alternatives; 4 Nursing work is difficult work and what to do about it; Burnout: a short history; Emotional labour; Nursing work in depth
What might resilience mean? Supervision and peer-support5 Nursing: whose idea was it anyway?; At last -- an occupation for respectable women; Are we better off like doctors or not?; Nursing after the Second World War; 'We need to do something about nursing': modernizing and more; Fallen angels?; What's next? Nurses in debt and another new worker; Where are we now?; 6 Politicians: part of the solution and part of the problem; Are politicians to be trusted?; Democracy; Influencers; Science; Ideology; Neoliberalism and the market; Policy examples: the creation of a welfare state in the UK
Healthcare as a marketProfessions are the problem: nursing as a policy instrument; Post-Francis, post-everything; What nurses can do; 7 Being a student, being a worker; Pros and cons of being in the university; Structural forces on university nursing; How the NHS workplace works; What to do about bullying at work or at college; Action you can take; 8 Critical resilience and critical theory; What was there before theory?; The Frankfurt School; Marxism; Critiques of Marxism; Other critiques: the Enlightenment and critique, Nietzsche and Foucault; Where and how to find out more
So, what does this mean for me?9 Nursing solidarity, organizing and resistance; Radical nurses past and present; Nursing unions and their achievements; Social media and activism; Benefits and risks; Nurses of all countries unite: no nurse need be alone; Appendix: Summary of research papers on resilience in nursing included in this book; References; Index
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Subject Great Britain. National Health Service.
SUBJECT Great Britain. National Health Service
Great Britain. National Health Service fast
Subject Nursing -- Great Britain
Resilience (Personality trait) -- Psychological aspects
Nursing.
Nurturing behavior.
Empathy.
Organizational change.
Nursing Process
Evidence-Based Nursing -- methods
Resilience, Psychological
Empathy
Organizational Innovation
Burnout, Professional -- prevention & control
empathy.
Organizational change
Nurturing behavior
Empathy
Nursing
SUBJECT United Kingdom https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006113
Subject Great Britain
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317272489
131727248X
9781317272496
1317272498