Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Moving beyond the Virtue Script in Nursing: Creating a Knowledge-Based Identity for Nurses 13
6. 2. When Little Things Are Big Things: The Importance of Relationships for Nurses’ Professional Practice 30
7. 3. Pride and Prejudice: Nurses’ Struggle with Reasoned Debate 44
8. 4. Moral Integrity and Regret in Nursing 50
9. 5. Ethical Expertise and the Problem of the Good Nurse 69
10. 6. From Sickness to Health 88
11. 7. The New Cartesianism: Dividing Mind and Body and Thus Disembodying Care 104
12. 8. Nurses Must Be Clever to Care 122
13. 9. “You Don’t Want to Stay Here”: Surgical Nursing and the Disappearance of Patient Recovery Time 143
14. 10. Research on Nurse Staffing and Its Outcomes: The Challenges and Risks of Grasping at Shadows 161
15. Conclusion. Nurses Wanted: Sentimental Men and Women Need Not Apply 185
16. Notes 191
17. Contributors 203
18. Index 205