The Emotional Labour of Nursing

Aimed at the nursing community, this book looks at the emotional component of nursing. Chapters featured include the selection, testing and expectation of nurses to care, emotion management, issues of age, gender, race, death and dying in the hospital environment. This stimulating and original study is written for nurses, midwives, health visitors and others, such as teachers, social workers and managers engaged in 'caring'. It will interest a variety of students, not only of nursing, but also of women's studies and sociology.The research on which this book is based shows the importance of the charge nurse or ward sister in making emotional style in which it was given, and that nurses felt better able to care for patients and colleagues when their learning environment was emotionally supportive.