Nursing in a technological world: searching for healing communities.
A research dialectic between philosophy of technology and nurses' work in acute care surfaces parallel technological practices that threaten the healing nature of two modern projects: health care and ecological restoration. A metaphor of ecological restoration is used to explore the consequences of denatured health care work for the welfare of patients, families, practitioners, and healing communities. It is argued that in health care systems where the mismatch between treatment options and resources for care steadily grows, the nursing discipline must develop ecological literacy for a technological world.
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John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre, University of Alberta, Canada.
D000208:Acute Disease / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D004463:Ecology; D004645:Empathy; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D007587:Job Description; D008389:Marketing of Health Services; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009736:Nursing Process; D009742:Nursing Theory; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D016526:Workload