Where night is day : the world of the ICU / James Kelly.

By:

Kelly, James, 1948- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Culture and politics of health care workPublisher: Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource (xii, 231 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

0801467659
9780801467653
0801467640
9780801467646

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Where night is dayDDC classification:

616.02/8 23

LOC classification:

RT120.I5 K45 2013eb

NLM classification:

WY 154

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Contents:

The voyage into the sea of critical illness -- Diagnosis, diagnosis, diagnosis -- Nursing isn't a journey -- One more day -- The dream of cure -- Nursing : what it is and what it is not -- Caring -- Medicine as ghost rain -- Dying -- Poetic and tragic murmurings of the everyday -- They tell us everything -- Can they hear? -- Leaving ends the love -- The horizon.

Summary: "This book describes the hour-by-hour, day-by-day rhythms of an intensive care unit in a teaching hospital in New Mexico. Written by a nurse, Where Night Is Day reveals the specialized work of ICU nursing and its unique perspective on illness, suffering, and death. It takes place over a thirteen-week period, the time of the average rotation of medical residents through the ICU. As the author, James Kelly, reflects on the rise of medicine, the nature of nursing, the argument of care versus cure, he offers up an intimate portrait of the ICU, the patients who live and/or die there, and the medical professionals who work there"--Publisher's Web site.

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"This book describes the hour-by-hour, day-by-day rhythms of an intensive care unit in a teaching hospital in New Mexico. Written by a nurse, Where Night Is Day reveals the specialized work of ICU nursing and its unique perspective on illness, suffering, and death. It takes place over a thirteen-week period, the time of the average rotation of medical residents through the ICU. As the author, James Kelly, reflects on the rise of medicine, the nature of nursing, the argument of care versus cure, he offers up an intimate portrait of the ICU, the patients who live and/or die there, and the medical professionals who work there"--Publisher's Web site.