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Risk and Nursing Practice
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Risk and Nursing Practice introduces the reader to a range of sociological theory that has arisen about the 'risk society'. Theories about risk and society are specifically related to aspects of health care and nursing practice that have become highly thematic, such as violence against nurses, techniques of risk assessment and risk management.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Series editors’ preface
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on contributors
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Managing risk in community practice: nursing, risk and decision-making
- 3 A ‘risk of the job’? violence against nurses from patients and the public as an emerging policy issue
- 4 The rise of risk thinking in mental health nursing
- 5 Different understandings of risk within a forensic mental health care unit: a cultural approach
- 6 The very LOUD discourses of risk in pregnancy
- 7 Exploring the issues of risk and freedom for parents of children with life limiting, life threatening and chronic health problems
- 8 The tension between autonomy and safety in nursing adults with learning disabilities
- 9 Balancing risk and independence in nursing older adults
- 10 Managing risk – the case of sexualities and sexual health
- 11 Final thoughts
- References
- Name Index
- Subject Index