Exploring Our Environmental Connections

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Jones & Bartlett Learning, 1994 - Medical - 345 pages
How do both natural and human-made environments affect nurse's ability to give care? What effects do the activities of nurses have on the en vironment? The more we understand how we interconnect with our environ ments, the better we will be able to preserve or change them. This bro ad-based collection features cutting-edge articles on nursing and ecof eminism, occupational hazards, environmental accountability and consci ousness, natural disasters, and much more.
 

Contents

Myth Mystery and Metaphors
17
Nightingale Nursing and the Ecofeminists
41
Nurses as Fairies in Gumboots
57
Exploring Ethical Ways of Being with Another
81
Creating Caring Environments
89
Toward a More Friendly Social Environment for
95
A Holistic
101
Encountering Environment through Interiority
113
In the Gloom of the Environmental Crisis Can Nurses
213
Environmentally Responsible Clinical Practice
233
Knowledge through Experiencing
253
Experiencing the Wisdom
267
Face Painting as Metaphor
279
Environmental Connections and Reawakened Spirit
287
Nursings Accountability to the Future
307
The Environment as a Curricular Concept
321

Personal
133
Impact
155
Environments Experienced by Hospital Nurses
175
Nurses Creating a Healing
195
A Mosaic
329
Endings and New Beginnings
339
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