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Paul Godin
ISBN: 9781403943118
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Palgrave USA
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Introduces the reader to a range of sociological theory about the 'risk society'. Theories about risk and society are specifically related to issues of health and illness and more specifically to aspects of health care and nursing practice, such as violence against nurses, and techniques of risk assessment and risk management.
"Risk and Nursing Practice" introduces the reader to a broad range of sociological theory that has arisen in recent decades about the 'risk society'. Theories about risk and society are specifically related to issues of health and illness and more specifically to aspects of health care and nursing practice that have become highly thematic, such as violence against nurses, techniques of risk assessment and risk management, and the balancing of risk avoidance against the opportunities risk taking offers.
| ISBN | 1403943117 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | ISBN13 | 9781403943118
(What's this?) | | Pages | 208 | | Publisher | Palgrave USA | | Published in | Gordonsville | | Imprint | Palgrave Macmillan | | Series title | Sociology in Nursing Practice S. | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 216 | | Publication date | 29 Jun 2006 | | Width (mm) | 138 | | DEWEY | 610.730692 | | Academic level | Tertiary education, Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly |
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| 1 | | Introduction by Paul Godin | | 1 | | 2 | | Managing risk in community practice : nursing, risk and decision-making by Andy Alaszewski | | 24 | | 3 | | A 'risk of the job'? : violence against nurses from patients and the public as an emerging policy issue by Mary Ann Elston and Jonathan Gabe and Maria O'Beirne | | 42 | | 4 | | The rise of risk thinking in mental health nursing by Paul Godin | | 65 | | 5 | | Different understandings of risk within a forensic mental health care unit : a cultural approach by Paul Godin and Jacqueline Davies and Bob Heyman and Monica Shaw | | 79 | | 6 | | The very loud discourses of risk in pregnancy by Karen MacKinnon and Liza McCoy | | 98 | | 7 | | Exploring the issues of risk and freedom for parents of children with life limiting, life threatening and chronic health problems by David Pontin | | 121 | | 8 | | The tension between autonomy and safety in nursing adults with learning disabilities by Bob Heyman and Jacqueline Davies | | 135 | | 9 | | Balancing risk and independence in nursing older adults by Khim Horton | | 150 | | 10 | | Managing risk - the case of sexualities and sexual health by Anthony Pryce | | 163 | | 11 | | Final thoughts by Paul Godin | | 188 |
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