Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Resilience: where did it come from? Research on resilience and its use in nursing Chapter 2. The limits of resilience: introducing ‘critical resilience’ Chapter 3. How compassionate are you? Chapter 4. Nursing work is difficult work and what to do about it Chapter 5. Nursing: whose idea was it anyway? Chapter 6. Politicians—part of the solution and part of the problem Chapter 7. Being a student, being a worker Chapter 8. Critical resilience and critical theory Chapter 9.Nursing solidarity, organising and resistance

About the Author

Michael Traynor is Professor of Nursing Policy at Middlesex University, London, UK, where he works in the Centre for Critical Research in Nursing and Midwifery.