Overview
Nursing keeps changing. The role of the nurse grew out of a Christian understanding of the human person as created in the image of God, and viewed the body as a living unity and the temple of the Holy Spirit (1 Cor 6:19). Contemporary nursing, however, is increasingly characterized by a diminished understanding of personhood. The impact on patient care has proven confusing and discouraging to many nurses. In the newly revised and expanded Called to Care: A Christian Worldview for Nursing, Judith Allen Shelly and Arlene B. Miller define nursing for today based on a historically and theologically grounded understanding of the nurse's call: Nursing is a ministry of compassionate care for the whole person, in response to God's grace toward a sinful world, which aims to foster optimum health (shalom) and bring comfort in suffering and death for anyone in need. Called to Care asserts that nursing is a vocation, giving nurses a framework for understanding their mission and living out their calling: service to God through caring for others.
Full Product Details
Author: Judith Allen Shelly ,
Arlene B. Miller
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Imprint: Inter-Varsity Press,US
Edition: 2nd Edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 22.60cm
Weight: 0.880kg
ISBN: 9780830827657
ISBN 10: 083082765
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 26 January 2006
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
Courageous nurses will find this new edition an essential companion that lights the way in practice and academic settings influenced by modern and postmodern worldviews. --Diane Elliott-Lee, R.N., M.S.N., coauthor of Courage: The Backbone of Leadership
In the increasingly complex and challenging world of health care a nurse's faith can be a necessary point of reference, to avoid being just swept along in the tide of change. This book can assist quicker development of a sufficiently mature and thought-through Christian faith to enable a nurse to cope explicitly with the challenges of life, suffering, death and an unending succession of new ethical issues; and to support others in doing so. The original biblically well-referenced discussion of nursing and concepts relevant to it, illustrated by nursing stories, gives a coherent Christian perspective on nursing. The discussion questions and points for further thinking and reflection added in the second edition highlight its relevance and application in practice. Many could usefully be raised in a group of nurses or students with a variety of faiths or none. The purpose, objectives and key words for each chapter also help to focus thought and learning.This book is a welcome resource. --Pat Ashworth, former senior lecturer in nursing, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland Courageous nurses will find this new edition an essential companion that lights the way in practice and academic settings influenced by modern and postmodern worldviews. --Diane Elliott-Lee, R.N., M.S.N., coauthor of Courage: The Backbone of Leadership
Author Information
Judith Allen Shelly, R.N., B.S.N., M.A., D.Min., is resources director for Nurses Christian Fellowship and editor of the Journal of Christian Nursing. Arlene B. Miller, R.N., Ph.D., is retired from the Department of Nursing at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania. She continues to teach occasional classes there.
