The required readings for this unit are:

Australia	Required Reading(s)

Quested, B. & Rudge, T. (2001). Procedure manuals

and textually mediated death. Nursing Inquiry, 8(4), 264-272. Retrieved December 28, 2002, from Academic Search Premier database: http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=5918046&db=aph Procedure manuals and textually mediated death: The procedure manual as a document represents the practice of nursing care. Analysis of such manuals allows us to explore discourses of nursing and the ways in which they frame nursing practice. A critical analysis of a hospital procedure manual using discourse analysis was undertaken. A specific excerpt concerning 'Last offices' is used as an example of the institutionalisation of organisational values and beliefs as these influence nursing care. 'Last offices' directs nursing practices related to the death of a patient, and the laying out as preparation for the funeral director or coroner. The analysis shows that procedure manuals reproduce hegemonic ideologies of nursing. The analysis also shows how nursing practices are constituted by intersecting forces of differing locations such as the hospital as an organisation, the healthcare system and the wider society within which these function

 

Canada	Required Reading(s)

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International	Required Reading(s)

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United Kingdom	Required Reading(s)

Komaromy, C. (2000). The sight and sound of death:

The management of dead bodies in residential and nursing homes for older people. Mortality, 5(3), 299-315. Retrieved December 28, 2002, from Academic Search Premier database: http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=3768290&db=aph Explores the management of the dead body in residential and nursing homes. Concealment of the sight of death; Lack of concealment of the sounds associated with the removal of the corpse from such homes; Professional experience of concealment of death in a hospital; Hierarchy of unsightliness which requires degrees of concealment; Boundary between life and death.

 

United States	Required Reading(s)

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Databases
For the full text article online, sleuth the 'University of Calgary/ Library/ Article Indexes':

Directions:

• Select - Indexes and abstracts with links to full text articles
• Select - Academic Search Premier or Expanded Academic ASAP
• Select - Connect
• Fill in User ID and Pin
• Fill in search words: custody and body

 

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The 'recommended only' readings for this unit are the following:

Australia	Recommended Reading(s)

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Canada	Recommended Reading(s)

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International	Recommended Reading(s)

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United Kingdom	Recommended Reading(s)

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United States	Recommended Reading(s)

Randall, B. B., Fierro, M. F., & Froede, R. C. (1998).

Practice guideline for forensic pathology. Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, 122(12), 1056-1064.

 

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Additional references for this unit can be found in 'forensic references' of the forensic sourcebooks.

• Sleuth 'forensic reference' database for:
  • forensic - medicine - role
  • forensic - investigator - role

Kent-Wilkinson, A. (2002). Forensic Sourcebooks: Forensic References.

Retrieved May 28, 2002, from the Forensic Education Website: http://www.forensiceducation.com/sourcebooks/experts/Experts_database.html/refs

 

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Video's recommended for this unit are:

	Resources (Video)

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The required websites to sleuth for this unit are the following:

Australia	Resources (Web)

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Canada	Resources (Web)

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International	Resources (Web)

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• Note in this website.....

United Kingdom	Resources (Web)

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• Note in this website.....

United States	Resources (Web)

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• Note in this article...

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For additional websites on this unit, sleuth 'forensic websites' in the forensic sourcebooks.

• forensic - investigator

Kent-Wilkinson, A. (2002). Forensic Sourcebooks: Forensic Websites.

Retrieved May 28, 2002, from the Forensic Education Website: http://www.forensiceducation.com/sourcebooks/experts/Experts_database.html/websites

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