Full Description
The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Nursing is a pragmatic text assisting nurses at every career level through the challenges and rewards of their everyday duty to care. It advances the seminal work of Drs. Betty Ferrell and Nessa Coyle to give voice to the suffering of patients, their families, and their communities, as well as the suffering of nurses and other clinicians.
This second edition has been updated in light of health and social care changes from the COVID-19 pandemic with a focus on the social determinants of health and increased visibility of marginalized populations across physical, mental, spiritual, emotional, ethical, cultural, and end-of-life domains to support whole-person and whole-people care. Contributing authors emphasize the qualitative experience of those who suffer alongside the best available evidence for person-centered nursing to promote meaning, growth, and introspection within the field of nursing. New and expanded chapters offer broader perspectives of patient populations across diseases and across the lifespan. Concrete steps for nurses to grow toward personal and professional healing and wholeness are provided.
Compassionate and holistic, The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Nursing reflects the lived experience of patients, families, and communities at the intersection of high-quality evidence, offering a rare window into what it means to practice nursing today in response to the suffering of those they serve.
Contents
Preface
Nessa Coyle
Chapter 1: The Nature of Suffering and the Practice of Nursing
Mark Lazenby
Chapter 2: Spiritual and Religious Perspectives about Suffering
Elizabeth Johnston Taylor
Chapter 3: Existential Suffering
Virginia Lee
Chapter 4: Pain and Suffering
Judith A. Paice and Betty R. Ferrell
Chapter 5: Suffering of Infants, Parents, and Families
Elena Abascal and Frances T. McCarthy
Chapter 6: Child, Adolescent, and Family Suffering: The Interconnected Experience of Suffering in Serious Pediatric Illness
Kim Mooney-Doyle
Chapter 7: Suffering in Older People
Terry Fulmer, Amy Berman, Rebecca Slossberg, Teffin Benedict, and Rumaysa Sharif
Chapter 8: Suffering Related to Mental Health Challenges and Traumatic Events
Barbara A. Harris
Chapter 9: Suffering in Acute and Critical Care
Elizabeth G. Broden and Anessa Foxwell
Chapter 10: Suffering in Chronic Illness
Avery C. Bechthold and J. Nicholas Dionne-Odom
Chapter 11: Suffering in the Context of Cancer
Renee Wisniewski and Blima Marcus
Chapter 12: Bearing Witness to Suffering at End of Life
Stephanie Van Hope, Janet Booth, and William E. Rosa
Chapter 13: The Suffering of Caregivers, Loved Ones, and the Community
Tamryn F. Gray
Chapter 14: Social Suffering, biopower, and the naturalization of inequity
Alic G. Shook, Robin A. Narruhn, and Christine R. Espina
Chapter 15: Suffering in the Face of Humanitarian Crises and Emergencies
Sheila Davis and Marc Julmisse
Chapter 16: The Suffering of Nurses
Cynda Hylton Rushton and Katie E. Nelson
Chapter 17: Healing and Wholeness in the Face of Suffering
Mary Koithan and Mary Jo Kreitzer
Chapter 18: "What is the Nature of Suffering and What are the Goals of Nursing?"
Betty R. Ferrell and William E. Rosa
Index
