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Caring Matters Most: The Ethical Significance of Nursing

Autor Mark Lazenby
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 mar 2017

Găsim în Caring Matters Most, publicat sub egida Oxford University Press, un instrument de lucru compact, de 176 de pagini, conceput pentru a fi integrat rapid în rutina profesională. Apreciem organizarea riguroasă a volumului, care alternează explicațiile accesibile ale teoriilor morale cu studii de caz din viața reală, finalizând fiecare secțiune cu întrebări de discuție și exerciții aplicative. Această structură facilitează tranziția de la conceptele abstracte de etică la deciziile clinice imediate, oferind asistenților medicali un suport metodic pentru dezvoltarea caracterului moral.

Subliniem abordarea inedită a lui Mark Lazenby, care identifică cinci obiceiuri esențiale — încrederea, imaginația, frumusețea, spațiul și prezența — ca fiind pilonii rezilienței în fața automatizării și a presiunilor din sistemul sanitar. Cartea completează Ethics and the Good Nurse de Andrew Peterson prin accentul pus pe mecanismele de auto-susținere ale asistentului în medii de lucru ostile, oferind o perspectivă mai pragmatică asupra modului în care virtutea se traduce în practică sub presiune. În contextul operei sale, Caring Matters Most reprezintă o rafinare a ideilor din Toward a Better World, mutând focusul de la acțiunea politică globală către etica individuală a îngrijirii la patul bolnavului. Dacă în Safe Passage autorul analiza complexitatea îngrijirii paliative prin prisma diversității religioase, aici el universalizează actul îngrijirii ca pe o formă de bunătate intrinsecă, esențială pentru identitatea profesională.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199364541
ISBN-10: 0199364540
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 137 x 211 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte asistenților medicali care caută o ancoră etică într-un sistem tot mai tehnologizat. Cititorul câștigă strategii concrete pentru a gestiona stresul profesional și conflictele colegiale prin cultivarea unor trăsături de caracter specifice. Este o resursă valoroasă pentru educația continuă, oferind un cadru de reflecție ce transformă sarcinile tehnice în acte de îngrijire cu semnificație morală profundă.


Despre autor

Mark Lazenby este un filosof și asistent medical a cărui carieră s-a concentrat pe intersecția dintre etică, spiritualitate și practica clinică. Expertiza sa este vastă, fiind implicat în editarea unor lucrări fundamentale precum Psycho-Oncology și explorând dimensiunile multiculturale ale îngrijirii în Safe Passage. Prin scrierile sale, Lazenby pledează pentru recunoașterea asistenților medicali ca agenți ai binelui social, utilizându-și dubla formare pentru a aduce rigoarea filosofică în realitățile adesea dure ale mediului spitalicesc contemporan.


Descriere

Through an exploration of the ethical nature of nursing, Caring Matters Most asserts that the act of nursing itself embodies goodness. Nurses can develop this moral character in themselves by cultivating five habits: trustworthiness, imagination, beauty, space, and presence. Practicing these habits will sustain nurses as they meet the challenges of the workplace, the threat of automation, and the incivilities that arise within the nursing community. The volume concludes with thought-provoking discussion questions and exercises designed to help nurses apply concepts in the classroom or in practice. Each chapter combines highly readable explanations of moral theory with real-life examples that can guide nurses in day-to-day practice. Caring Matters Most is an ideal resource for academic or practicing nurses interested in healthcare ethics or philosophy.

Recenzii

The chapters are thought provoking and the content provides opportunities for refection. [The book's] excellent resources can be used for individual refection and to stimulate group discussion. I would recommend this book to anyone who is already a registered nurse, regardless of their seniority and those who are considering entering the nursing profession.
Armed with a Ph.D. in philosophy, Lazenby infuses this expertise into his thought-provoking narrative, remarking on the importance of regard and mindfulness while at a patients bedside. He presents these crucial guideposts without dry textbook jargon but instead with engaging, relevant anecdotes from patients and nurses, offering his valuable tips with encouraging motivation. In a demanding industry confounded by the complications of encroaching automation and both patient vulnerability and ever-increasing acuity, Lazenby with boundless enthusiasm and positivity seeks to inject the caregiving role with some much-needed kindness and sympathy while still attaining the professional medical standards and goals nurses strive for.
Mark Lazenby is right: Caring matters most. Yet we find ourselves in a rapidly changing health care system that seems more chaotic, stressful and uncaring than ever before--and in a society that continues to devalue caring as the foundation of health and healing. This book holds the promise for ensuring that nurses are outspoken advocates for bringing the elements of caring into our health care organizations, systems, and policies. For both new and seasoned nurses who are concerned about the "business" of health care pushing out nurses' essential role and moral obligation to care for and about individuals, families and communities, Caring Matters Most is essential reading. It is also essential reading for anyone concerned about whether our health care system and those who work in it understand how to make caring our primary mission. If we don't, we are lost.
This "little book" details the big ideas that form the foundation of the nursing profession. It is a must read for those new to the profession and those long in the profession alike. In simple but powerful prose Mark Lazenby reminds us why we nurse and what it means to be a nurse.
A crucial book for all nurses, novice or experienced, it made my heart sing and brought tears to my eyes. Lazenby says to be a nurse is to be 'compelled to care' and he beautifully details the ethics of that compulsion. Read Caring Matters Most to remember why we do this challenging, but ever so important, job of nursing.
Noble and often moving. An eloquent argument that caring, not reasoned principles, enables each of us to work towards a better world.
Many have recommended the ethics of care as an approach to nursing ethics. Lazenby has provided an excellent account of what the ethics of care actually means for practitioners of the profession. His broadly Aristotelian approach begins by describing the ethical habits of a caring nurse. His approach is fresh and interesting; personal as well as erudite. He is a philosopher, but he writes as a nurse for his fellow nurses, providing dozens of concrete examples of caring in action. A perfect book for nursing ethics students or anyone interested in the ethics of care and the healing professions.
Good nursing, Mark Lazenby reminds us, needs attentive care by trustworthy nurses, which regulatory requirements and formal accountability can never replace. A humane and timely reminder.

Notă biografică

Mark Lazenby, PhD, MSN is an Assistant Professor of Nursing at Yale University's School of Nursing. He holds a Master's Degree in Theology and is an Advanced Oncology Certified Nurse Practitioner.