Deviant Nurses and Improper Patient Care: A Study of Failure in the Medical Profession - Hardcover

Deviant Nurses and Improper Patient Care: A Study of Failure in the Medical Profession

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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Cloth hardcover, 191 pges, bibliography, index. Weight: 0.47kg / 1.04lb. Ex-college library, marked "withdrawn": one external stamp on upper outer page edges, internal library markings (a date-due slip shows the book was only checked out once). Interior is clean and bright, untanned, with unmarked text and firm binding. Boards show handling marks, a few really small heavily scuffed areas, faint grubby/dusty marks, a stray pen mark and one small black mark on rear panel. Spine with small indentations to edges, creases to upper section, green offset marks to upper edge, two very small superficial nicks (mid- and upper spine). Published without a dust jacket. --- Ursula Falk, a psychotherapist and nursing home consultant, and Gerhard Falk (sociology, State U. College at Buffalo) describe the state of nursing in the US and the concept of deviance, give examples of deviant nurses, address the element of moral character and who is vulnerable to these nurses, and suggest that male nurses are seen as "deviant" because they work in a largely female world. --- Contents: 1. Introduction: Theories of Deviance (- Deviance Defined, - Sociology of Deviance, - Notes); 2. The Caring Profession: Nursing the Sick (- Summary, - Notes); 3. The Perpetrators; 4. Moral Character: Alcoholic Drug Users and Thieves; 5. The More Vulnerable Ones (- Summary); 6. Male Nurses (- Men in a Female World, - Psychological Orientation of Male Nurses towards their Work, - Status and Prestige, - Cognitive Dissonance, - Sex in the Work Place, - Summary. - Notes); 7. Summary and Conclusions. Seller Inventory # 004057

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