1st Edition
Nursing, COVID and the End of Resilience A Critical Approach
By Michael Traynor
Copyright 2025
120 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
120 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
120 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book looks at the way in which resilience has been promoted as a resource for nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic and addresses its limitations as a response to the potential trauma of working in intense healthcare contexts. Traynor examines the nature of trauma and moral distress in nursing work, which predates the most recent pandemic that brought it into sharp relief, and links this to... Read more
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1: An alternative chronology
2: The end of resilience
3: COVID, nursing and the PPE millionaires
4: The dark side of the nursing response to Covid-19
5 Nurses and the vaccine roll-out: good news amid the chaos?
6 Trauma is never far away
7: Finding meaning in extreme situations
Chapter 8: The future of nursing: where did normal go and what can we learn from system resilience?
Biography
Michael Traynor recently Professor of Nursing Policy, Middlesex University, London, and now an independent scholar and writer about UK nursing.
