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Nursing Against the Odds : How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, and Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses and Patient Care.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work SeriesPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2005Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (505 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801465048
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Nursing Against the OddsDDC classification:
  • 610.730973
LOC classification:
  • RT86
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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.

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