The Acute-Care Nurse Practitioner : A Transformational Journey

Title

Subject

medical

nurse

Description

The Acute-Care Nurse Practitioner is based on in-depth interviews with twenty-six nurse practitioners working in acute-care settings within tertiary-care institutions all across Canada. Employing a hermeneutic approach, Rashotte explores the perspectives from which NPs view their reality as they undergo a transformational journey of becoming a journey that is directed both outward, into the world, and inward, into the self. We learn how, in their struggle to engage in a meaningful practice that fulfills their goals as nurses, their purpose was hindered or achieved. In large part, the story unfolds in the voices of the NPs themselves, but their words are complemented by descriptive passages and excerpts of poetry that construct an animated and powerful commentary on their journey.

Creator

Rashotte, Judy

Source

https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/40101

Publisher

Publisher
Athabasca University Press

Publisher website
http://www.aupress.ca/

Date

2013

Contributor

Djuwarnik

Rights

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Format

pdf

Language

English

Type

Textbooks

Identifier

ISBN
9781927356289

ISBN
9781927356265

ISBN
9781927356272

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