Care: The Essence of Nursing and Health (Human Care and Health Series)

Care: Discovery and Uses in Clinical and Community Nursing contains rich new insights about human care. It is intended to increase nurses' understanding and uses of human care in hospital and community work.
Contributors examine the care values of specific cultural groups, the way care is imbedded and expressed through social structure features, caring in specific cultures, the concept of the caring community, the needs of women who have miscarried, of couples, and of battered children. In addition, a number of critical human care issues, trends, and problems are identified as issues for further study. For nursing students and clinicians, this book greatly expands and deepens insights about human care and encourages the use of caring in clinical and community practice.