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

Kelly, James, 1948- (author.).

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 information.

Record details

ISBN: 9780801451683 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 080145168X (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780801467653
ISBN: 0801467659
Physical Description: xii, 231 pages ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Ithaca, New York : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2013.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-231).
Formatted Contents Note:	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.