Book
Where night is day : the world of the ICU
Record details
- ISBN: 9780801451683 (cloth : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 080145168X (cloth : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780801467653
- ISBN: 0801467659
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Physical Description:
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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. |
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| Subject: | Intensive care nursing New Mexico Intensive care units New Mexico Critical Illness nursing New Mexico Intensive Care Units New Mexico Nursing Care New Mexico Intensive Care New Mexico |
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Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kirtland Community College Library | RT 120 .I5 K45 2013 | 30775305472251 | General Collection | Available | - |
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.