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Author Kelly, James, 1948- author.

Title Where night is day : the world of the ICU / James Kelly
Published Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 231 pages)
Series Culture and politics of health care work
Culture and politics of health care work.
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-231)
Notes In English
Print version record
Subject Intensive care nursing -- New Mexico
Intensive care units -- New Mexico
Intensive care units.
Critical care medicine.
Critical Illness -- nursing
Intensive Care Units
Critical Care Nursing
Critical Care
intensive care units.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Medical.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
Critical care medicine
Intensive care nursing
Intensive care units
SUBJECT New Mexico
Subject New Mexico
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012038924
ISBN 0801467659
9780801467653
0801467640
9780801467646