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Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines (The Culture and Politics of Health Care...
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by Suzanne Gordon
Sales Rank: 311605
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List Price: $17.95
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Paperback: 338 pages
Publisher: ILR Press; 1 edition September 2007
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0801474280
ISBN-13: 978-0801474286
Product Dimensions:
8.1 x 5.5 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
Product Review
Health care systems often seem hobbled by rules and scrubbed clean of personality. Life Support displays their warmer, messier human side by trailing three outspoken nurses on their rounds. One works with cancer patients, another with homebound elderly, while a third mediates between patients and families, doctors and nurses. Between glimpses of large and small life dramas, author Suzanne Gordon (Prisoners of Men's Dreams) considers prejudice and ignorance about nursing. Does lack of ambition or intelligence bar nurses from medical school? Why is their care denigrated, while doctors are elevated? How will sweeping changes in health care affect them and, ultimately, us? Her responses are provocative and far-ranging.
--This text refers to the
Hardcover
edition.
From Booklist
Gordon's aptly titled book tells the stories of three nurse practitioners^-advanced practice nurses who nursed patients at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital and at the patients' homes. Thanks to a program begun at Beth Israel in the 1970s, bedside nurses are permitted--and encouraged--to increase their education and yet remain bedside nurses; salaries grow step-by-step, so experienced nurses do not have to leave patient care for administrative offices. Stories of many different types of patients add life to Gordon's account of her three subjects' nurse-patient relationships and cogency to these nurses' additional roles as spokespersons for the patients to physicians and administrators. Gordon also examines, in her forceful but levelheaded journalist's style, contemporary nursing as it is affected by managed-care programs and administrative downsizing. Buttressing her points with statistics and arguments garnered from many interviews and the literature, she demonstrates that there has been an appalling downturn in nursing care and misled use of poorly trained assistants by some HMOs and insurance companies. William Beatty
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