Nursing against the odds : how health care cost cutting, media stereotypes, and medical hubris undermine nurses and patient care / Suzanne Gordon.

In the United States and throughout the industrialized world, just as the population of older and sicker patients is about to explode, we have a major shortage of nurses. Why are so many RNs dropping out of health care's largest profession? How will the lack of skilled, experienced caregivers a...

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Main Author: Gordon, Suzanne, 1945-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, NY : Bristol : ILR ; University Presses Marketing [distributor], 2005.
Series:Culture and politics of health care work.
ILR press book.
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Table of 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 Churn14. Failure to Rescue
  • Conclusion: Changing the Odds
  • Notes
  • Index