Palliative Care Nursing as Mindfulness

Name: Palliative Care Nursing as Mindfulness
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Palliative Care Nursing as MindfulnessEmbodying a Relational Ethic through Strong Emotion, Uncertainty and Death\nAuthor(s): Lacie White\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032181738, 978-1032181738\nSynopsis\nAs nurses, we hear about mindfulness all the time, but what does that actually mean in practice? In this book readers are invited into conversation to explore how mindfulness influences palliative care nurses approaches to caring for themselves and others through experiences of living-dying. \n\nUnder the guise of stress reduction and self-care, the assumption often made is that mindfulness can smooth out difficult experiences. Instead, the objective of this inquiry is not to bypass the practice of caring in those spaces that are really hard, but to understand how nurses are working directly within them. Calling out from the shadowsand our bodiesthe intensity of palliative care nursing practice arises. In this.