TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gordon,Suzanne
TI  - Nursing Against the Odds: How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, and Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses and Patient Care
T2  - The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work Series
SN  - 9780801465048
AV  - RT86 
U1  - 610.730973 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Nursing -- Social aspects -- United States
KW  - Nursing -- United States -- Public opinion
KW  - Nurses -- United States -- Public opinion
KW  - Nurses -- United States -- Social conditions
KW  - Nurses in mass media
KW  - Nurse and physician
KW  - Public opinion -- United States
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Nursing Against the Odds -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part One: Nurses and Doctors at Work -- 1. Manufacturing the Dominant Doctor -- 2. Designing the Doctor-Nurse Game -- 3. The Disruptive Medical System -- 4. Fatal Synergy -- 5. Making Matters Worse -- Part Two: The Media and Nursing -- 6. Dropped from the Picture -- 7. Missing from the News -- 8. Unavailable for Comment -- Part Three: Hospitals and Nursing -- 9. Mangling Care -- 10. The New Nursing Universe -- 11. Nurses on the Ropes -- 12. No Nurse Left Behind -- 13. Management by Churn -- 14. Failure to Rescue -- Conclusion: Changing the Odds -- Notes -- Index
N2  - In this book, Suzanne Gordon draws on in-depth interviews with nurses and other health care professionals, research studies, and extensive firsthand reporting to better understand the myriad causes of and possible solutions to the current nursing crisis
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3138332
ER  -