Nursing the Image

Nursing the Image

Author: Julia Hallam

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 0415184541

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Julia Hallam considers the 'image' of nursing and how it has been constructed, contributing to the debates surrounding gender and occupational identity.


Paradoxes in Nurses’ Identity, Culture and Image

Paradoxes in Nurses’ Identity, Culture and Image

Author: Margaret McAllister

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-01-29

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1351033409

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This book examines some of the more disturbing representations of nurses in popular culture, to understand nursing’s complex identities, challenges and future directions. It critically analyses disquieting representations of nurses who don’t care, who kill, who inspire fear or who do not comply with laws and policies. Also addressed are stories about how power is used, as well as supernatural experiences in nursing. Using a series of examples taken from popular culture ranging from film, television and novels to memoirs and true crime podcasts, it interrogates the meaning of the shadow side of nursing and the underlying paradoxes that influence professional identity. Iconic nursing figures are still powerful today. Decades after they were first created, Ratched and Annie Wilkes continue to make readers and viewers shudder at the prospect of ever being ill. Modern storytelling modes are bringing to audiences the grim reality that some nurses are members of the working poor, like Cath Hardacre in Trust Me, and others can be dangerous con artists, like the nurse in Dirty John. This book is important reading for all those interested in understanding the links between nursing’s image and the profession’s potential as an agent for change.


Nursing the Image

Nursing the Image

Author: Julia Hallam

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1134668252

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Ideas of 'nursing' and 'nurses' carry a powerful social charge. The image of the nurse continues to be a symbol of caring and of duty at the same time as it projects a view of femininity, 'stereotypical' in its gender relations. How has this image come to be constructed? An empirical investigation of representations of nursing practices in Britain focusing on publicity and promotional materials and their relationship to popular fictional narratives reveals a strong correlation between what are usually described as discrete forms of signification. Recruitment images, provide an important source of information and inspiration for those considering nurse training. Julia Hallam, draws from a wide range of sources including biographies, marketing and recruitment literature, popular fiction and film to explore this question. In doing so she makes an original contribution to the debates surrounding gender and occupational identity. The book will provide a valuable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students on courses such as the social history of nursing, the understanding of health and illness, women's studies, gender studies and sociology courses.


Images of Nurses

Images of Nurses

Author: Anne Hudson Jones

Publisher:

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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"Explores the ways in which nurses have been and are being portrayed, how these portrayals are related to reality, and how they reflect historical and contemporary conflicts about women's roles. Several contributors also examine the effect such portrayls have on nurses themselves and on current issues in the nursing profession"--cover.


Images of Nurses on Television

Images of Nurses on Television

Author: Philip Arthur Kalisch

Publisher: New York : Springer Pub.

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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Discusses images of nurses in television programs such as The Doctors, Dr. Kildare, General Hospital, Emergency, Ben Casey, Another World, House Calls, The Interns, Julia, Julie Farr, M.D., The Lazarus Syndrome, Marcus Welby, M.D., M*A*S*H, Medic, Medical Center, Medical Story, The Nurses, Police Surgeon, Quincy, The Practice, Rafferty, The Rookies, Temperatures Rising, Trapper John, M.D., The Waltons, Westside Medical, Young Doctor Kildare, and others.


The Nurses

The Nurses

Author: Alexandra Robbins

Publisher: Workman Publishing

Published: 2016-04-19

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0761189254

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A New York Times bestseller. “A funny, intimate, and often jaw-dropping account of life behind the scenes.”—People Nurses is the compelling story of the year in the life of four nurses, and the drama, unsung heroism, and unique sisterhood of nursing—one of the world’s most important professions (nurses save lives every day), and one of the world’s most dangerous, filled with violence, trauma, and PTSD. In following four nurses, Alexandra Robbins creates sympathetic characters while diving deep into their world of controlled chaos. It’s a world of hazing—“nurses eat their young.” Sex—not exactly like on TV, but surprising just the same. Drug abuse—disproportionately a problem among the best and the brightest, and a constant temptation. And bullying—by peers, by patients, by hospital bureaucrats, and especially by doctors, an epidemic described as lurking in the “shadowy, dark corners of our profession.” The result is a page-turning, shocking look at our health-care system.


Nurses and What They Do

Nurses and What They Do

Author: Liesbet Slegers

Publisher:

Published: 2021-09-07

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9781605377131

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A clear informative picture book for pre-schoolers, about the nurse and how to treat sick or old people. Nurses often work in hospitals. They look after sick people or patients. They take their temperature and blood pressure. Or they bring their medicine and check if they are fine. Nurses also talk to doctors to know how to treat each patient. But nurses can do other things too: assist at surgery, take care of the elderly in old people's homes or visit patients at their homes.


Theoretical Nursing

Theoretical Nursing

Author: Afaf Ibrahim Meleis

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 840

ISBN-13: 9780781736732

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This text guides you through the evolution of nursing's theoretical foundations and examines the ways in which these principles influence the practice of the discipline."--Jacket.


Helping You Heal

Helping You Heal

Author: Sarah C. Wohlrabe

Publisher: Capstone

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 9781404800861

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Lots of people have jobs that help make out community a better place to live. Readers find out what they do every day through fun illustrations and easy-to-read text. This series is aligned with the standard, "Production, Distribution, and Consumption" as required by the National Council for the Social Studies.


The Nurse in Popular Media

The Nurse in Popular Media

Author: Marcus K. Harmes,

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2021-10-28

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1476645469

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The image of the nurse is ubiquitous, both in life and in popular media. One of the earliest instances of nursing and media intersecting is the Edison phonographic recording of Florence Nightingale's voice in 1890. Since then, a parade of nurses, good, bad or otherwise, has appeared on both cinema and television screens. How do we interpret the many different types of nurses--real and fictional, lifelike and distorted, sexual and forbidding--who are so visible in the public consciousness? This book is a comprehensive collection of unique insights from scholars across the Western world. Essays explore a diversity of nursing types that traverse popular characterizations of nurses from various time periods. The shifting roles of nurses are explored across media, including picture postcards, film, television, journalism and the collection and preservation of uniforms and memorabilia.