The Emotional Labour of Nursing Revisited: Can Nurses Still Care?

by Pam Smith

As nurses become responsible for increasingly technical service delivery, has the profession lost its focus on the emotional and human aspects of the role?

Do care and compassion remain at the heart of contemporary nursing practice?

In this major reworking of a classic text, respected author Pam Smith emphasizes the continued relevance of emotional labour within the modern healthcare context. Revisiting her original findings in light...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230202624
• ISBN13: 9780230202627
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"