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.
Table of Contents
PrefaceNessa CoyleChapter 1: The Nature of Suffering and the Practice of NursingMark LazenbyChapter 2: Spiritual and Religious Perspectives about SufferingElizabeth Johnston TaylorChapter 3: Existential SufferingVirginia LeeChapter 4: Pain and SufferingJudith A. Paice and Betty R. FerrellChapter 5: Suffering of Infants, Parents, and FamiliesElena Abascal and Frances T. McCarthyChapter 6: Child, Adolescent, and Family Suffering: The Interconnected Experience of Suffering in Serious Pediatric IllnessKim Mooney-DoyleChapter 7: Suffering in Older PeopleTerry Fulmer, Amy Berman, Rebecca Slossberg, Teffin Benedict, and Rumaysa SharifChapter 8: Suffering Related to Mental Health Challenges and Traumatic EventsBarbara A. HarrisChapter 9: Suffering in Acute and Critical CareElizabeth G. Broden and Anessa FoxwellChapter 10: Suffering in Chronic IllnessAvery C. Bechthold and J. Nicholas Dionne-OdomChapter 11: Suffering in the Context of CancerRenee Wisniewski and Blima MarcusChapter 12: Bearing Witness to Suffering at End of LifeStephanie Van Hope, Janet Booth, and William E. RosaChapter 13: The Suffering of Caregivers, Loved Ones, and the CommunityTamryn F. GrayChapter 14: Social Suffering, biopower, and the naturalization of inequityAlic G. Shook, Robin A. Narruhn, and Christine R. EspinaChapter 15: Suffering in the Face of Humanitarian Crises and EmergenciesSheila Davis and Marc JulmisseChapter 16: The Suffering of NursesCynda Hylton Rushton and Katie E. NelsonChapter 17: Healing and Wholeness in the Face of SufferingMary Koithan and Mary Jo KreitzerChapter 18: "What is the Nature of Suffering and What are the Goals of Nursing?" Betty R. Ferrell and William E. RosaIndex
