Overview
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Roy Bailey
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Margaret Clarke
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xiii
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Understanding the Approach
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- Roy Bailey, Margaret Clarke
Pages 3-34
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- Roy Bailey, Margaret Clarke
Pages 35-69
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Nurses — Stress and Coping
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Pages 73-94
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- Roy Bailey, Margaret Clarke
Pages 95-106
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- Roy Bailey, Margaret Clarke
Pages 107-122
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- Roy Bailey, Margaret Clarke
Pages 123-162
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Patients — Stress and Coping
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Front Matter
Pages 163-163
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- Roy Bailey, Margaret Clarke
Pages 165-187
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- Roy Bailey, Margaret Clarke
Pages 188-211
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- Roy Bailey, Margaret Clarke
Pages 212-232
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- Roy Bailey, Margaret Clarke
Pages 233-255
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- Roy Bailey, Margaret Clarke
Pages 256-289
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- Roy Bailey, Margaret Clarke
Pages 290-315
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Conclusions
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Front Matter
Pages 317-317
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- Roy Bailey, Margaret Clarke
Pages 319-321
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Back Matter
Pages 322-335
About this book
Increasingly, stress as a concept is being used as an explanation of a wide variety of negative phenomena which are experienced by all people, but which include nurses in particular and their patients. Nursing has been identified as a 'high stress' profession and one can hardly pick up a nursing journal, or even read a newspaper article about nursing, without finding the word stress used liberally. Examples of its use are found in relation to sickness/absence rates, high level of nursing staff turnover, discontent in nursing, the effects of unemployment, the effects of overwork, having too much responsibility, having too Iittle responsibility or control, the effects of constantly giving emotionally to others, the causes of iIIness, the effects of going into hospital, delayed healing, anxiety, depression and alcoholism. Given the heterogeneous nature of these phenomena, some of which are the diametric opposite of others and that they are c1early being attributed to the one concept, stress, then that concept must necessarily be of importance within people's lives. Or is it perhaps just a fashionable, global, but uItimately empty explanation? Roy Bailey and I believe that stress is an extremely important concept. Indeed, we would argue that it is a meta-concept rat her than a concept, which does indeed serve to explain many disparate phenomena.
