|
 |
View Cart | Help |
|
Nursing Against the Odds: How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, And Medical...
|
Home > Medical Books > Anesthesia Nursing > Item 34
 |
|
 |
 |
Nursing Against the Odds: How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, And Medical...
|
by Suzanne Gordon
Sales Rank: 44375
|
List Price: $19.95
$13.57
At Amazon
on 10-19-2008
|
|
Paperback: 512 pages
Publisher: ILR Press; 1 edition March 9, 2006
Language: English
ISBN-10: 080147292X
ISBN-13: 978-0801472923
Product Dimensions:
9.1 x 6.5 x 1.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
Library Journal, March 15, 2005
"Up-to-date investigations like Gordon's should be required reading for nursing students, public healthcare advocates, and all medical interns."
--This text refers to the
Hardcover
edition.
Book Description
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 cares largest profession? How will the lack of skilled, experienced caregivers affect patients? These are some of the questions addressed by Suzanne Gordons definitive account of the worlds nursing crisis. In Nursing against the Odds, one of North Americas leading health care journalists draws on in-depth interviews, research studies, and extensive firsthand reporting to help readers better understand the myriad causes of and possible solutions to the current crisis. Gordon examines how health care cost cutting and hospital restructuring undermine the working conditions necessary for quality care. She shows how the historically troubled workplace relationships between RNs and physicians become even more dysfunctional in modern hospitals. In Gordons view, the public image of nurses continues to suffer from negative media stereotyping in medical shows on television and from shoddy press coverage of the important role RNs play in the delivery of health care.
Gordon also identifies the class and status divisions within the profession that hinder a much-needed defense of bedside nursing. She explains why some policy panaceashiring more temporary workers, importing RNs from less-developed countriesfail to address the forces that drive nurses out of their workplaces. To promote better care, Gordon calls for a broad agenda that includes safer staffing, improved scheduling, and other policy changes that would give nurses a greater voice at work. She explores how doctors and nurses can collaborate more effectively and what medical and nursing education must do to foster such cooperation. Finally, Gordon outlines ways in which RNs can successfully take their case to the public while campaigning for health care system reform that actually funds necessary nursing care.
--This text refers to the
Hardcover
edition.
|
Nursing Against the Odds: How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, And Medical...
Available from Amazon
Price: $13.57
Updated on 10-19-2008
|
|
|
|
|
NOTICE: All product prices, availability, and specifications
are subject to verification by their respective retailers.
(C) Copyright 1996-2008, Dominant Systems Corporation
info@bookdigger.com
Privacy Policy
Last Modified : 10-19-2008
|
|
|
|
