Biomedical subjects

S E Goopy

Publications and source records attributed to S E Goopy.

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[A standard type of nurse. An Italian experience].

There is a great deal of rhetoric surrounding the notion of a standard type of nurse. With claims of the globalisation of the nursing profession along with many other professions in the late twentieth century we risk oversimplifying the possibility of an actualisation of the "standard nurse". The following article looks briefly at the conditions and issues that confront a group of nurses working in a Rome intensive care unit. It argues that many of the difficulties they face as nurses arise from the incompatibility of the notion of a standard type of global nurse with their workplace conditions, professional support mechanism and various cultural and management based notions chich strongly influence their held identity.

Attitude to Health↗

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[Problem-based learning in nursing training: liberation or confinement?].

In this article some considerations are introduced on the method of the Problem Based Learning (PBL) for Nursing education. The method is criticized in its application. From the idea that it can be an active method, not conservative and that can be useful to develop the critical thinking, if it is not correctly used, it can result instead in a method that confines the education, negatively standardizes it and limits the critical thought. Some reflection points are underlined to promote a debate on the topic.

Education, Nursing↗

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[Thoughts on nursing, based on observations made in a Rome intensive care unit].

Nursing in an intensive care unit is probably one of the most extreme and demanding forms of nursing. Here, the nurse is confronted by the highly dependent patients and the demanding technological forms of treatment associated with them. The most demanding challenge for the nurse doesn't arise from the technology but from her dealing with the weak and defenseless party: the patient. Many nurses argue that their major difficulties are the result of poor working conditions, with poor staff to patient ratios, and the need to carry out physicians orders promptly and efficiently. The following article, in focusing on concepts of shame and authority, reflects on the nurse-patient-doctor relationship and argues that the challenges that confront the nurse go beyond those of the poor staff to patient ratio etc. and are indeed tied strongly to the behaviour patterns, and subsequent patterns of care, as perpetuated by the institutions and often, by the nurses themselves.

Authoritarianism↗