When Chicken Soup Isn't Enough : : Stories of Nurses Standing Up for Themselves, Their Patients, and Their Profession / / ed. by Suzanne Gordon.
The reassuring bromides of "chicken soup for the soul" provide little solace for nurses—and the people they serve—in real-life hospitals, nursing homes, schools of nursing, and other settings. In the minefield of modern health care, there are myriad obstacles to quality patient care—includ...
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part 1. Set Up to Lose, but Playing to Win
- A Covert Operation
- Saving Patients from Dr. Death
- A Lesson for the Principal
- The Delicate Discharge
- No Patience for Poison
- Mr. CEO, Will You Marry Me?
- Intolerable Behavior
- One Is One Too Many
- A Comfortable Cover Up
- Stacking the Cards in Our Favor
- Part 2. We Don’t Have to Eat Our Young
- Mentor Unto Others . . .
- A Dose of Diplomacy
- Standing Up for What You Don’t Know
- Broken Bones and Ice Cream
- Treating Transition Shock
- The Empty-Hands Round
- Part 3. Excuse Me, Doctor, You’re Wrong
- Eye/I Advocacy
- As If the Patient Can Hear You
- Don’t Just Add Nurses and Stir
- Gloves Off
- The Overlooked Symptom
- Hope in the Midst of Tragedy
- The Advantages of Age
- An Expiration Date for Indignancy
- What Hospice Is For
- A Real Pain
- Part 4. Not Part of the Job Description
- I’ll Call in Sick If I Have To
- Doing the Heavy Lifting
- Attacked by a Patient, Abandoned by My Hospital
- The Samurai Sword
- Only When It’s Safe
- The Red Shirts Are Coming
- Not Saints or Sisters
- Part 5. When One Advocate Can Make a Difference
- Putting Lymphedema on the Map
- An Inconvenient Nurse
- A Safe Delivery from Domestic Abuse
- To Do the Unthinkable
- The Only Nurse for Miles Around
- More Than Boo-boos and Band-Aids
- First Responders in the AIDS Epidemic
- Part 6. Choking on Sugar and Spice: Challenging Nurses′ Public Image
- Silenced during the SARS Epidemic
- In the Halls of Academe
- R-E-S-P-E-C-T
- Real Nurses Don’t Wear Wings
- The Lady with a Loud Voice
- Taking on the Terminator
- Defending the Nursing Profession over Dinner
- Remaking the Power Nurse
- Health Policy from Nurses′ Point of View
- Maybe We Should Be Bragging
- Finessing the Chairman of the Board
- Called to Duty at 30,000 Feet
- Part 7. Applied Research
- Nurse PI on a Clinical Trial
- The Need for Nurse Evaluators
- Research and Nursing- Home Reform
- How Nurses Make It Work
- Teamwork through Research
- Keep Asking Questions
- No More Martys
- Taking On Conventional Wisdom
- Part 8. Sticking Together
- Winning Recognition of Nursing Expertise
- A Union Just for Nurses
- We Rained on Their Parade
- Protesting on the Red Carpet
- Saving the Carney
- Part 9. Still Fighting
- The Male Midwife
- Fighting for Our Vets
- We Are the Experts
- A Collective Voice
- We Will Not Be Silenced
- Standing By One Patient
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