Books by Pam Smith

Touching Lives is the Jerome Smith story. Growing up as a poor dirt farmer, Jerome decided early on that he would change his life and along the way, he changed so many other's lives. With his long life has come many opportunities to learn, grow and touch people through his experiences and wisdom. Read about his early life in Noxapater, MS, the military where he was an Air Force glider pilot, through his happy years at the University of Mississippi, and life as a retired educator where he was instrumental in obtaining health insurance for teachers and serving Kirk Fordice, the Governor of Mississippi, on Fordice's cabinet. He was in the thick of the integration of the public schools in Jackson, MS and served as principal of one of the powerhouse high schools (Callaway High School) in Jackson, for many years. It is a fascinating and delightful read, sure to be enjoyed by former students and anyone interested in the formative years of integration and upheaval in the South.

Aimed at the nursing community, this book looks at the emotional component of nursing. Chapters featured include the selection, testing and expectation of nurses to care, emotion management, issues of age, gender, race, death and dying in the hospital environment.

As nurses become responsible for increasingly technical service delivery, hasthe profession lost its focus on the emotional and human aspects of the role?Do care and compassion remain at the heart of contemporary nursing practice? In this major reworking of a classic text, respected author Pam Smith emphasizesthe continued relevance of emotional labour within the modern healthcarecontext. Revisiting her original findings in light of fresh theoretical perspectivesand data drawn from her own new research studies, Smith explores the waysin which the experience of learning nursing and caring is changing in the twentyfirstcentury. A vivid example of the significance of nursing's evidence base, this timely newedition:addresses the most emotionally challenging aspects of the nursing role,including encountering death and dying on the ward; examines the impact of race, age, gender and violence in providing patientcentredcare; interrogates the importance of the role of practice educators and mentors inpractice settings. An inspiring text for the next generation of nurses, The Emotional Labour ofNursing Revisited is an essential read for anyone interested in the contemporarychallenges of keeping the whole person at the centre of their practice.