When Chicken Soup Isn't Enough : : Stories of Nurses Standing Up for Themselves, Their Patients, and Their Profession / / ed. by Suzanne Gordon.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Adams, Barry L.,; Aðalsteinsdóttir, Guðrún,; Baker, Martha,; Barden, Connie,; Bartholomew, Kathleen,; Bermudez, Vicki,; Bjarnadóttir, Dagbjört,; Black, Jane,; Blount, Carol,; Brous, Edie,; Bryner, Jeanne,; Carle, Brenda,; Chaisson, Jean,; Clarke, Sean,; Connolly, Penny,; Converso, Ann,; DiGiacomo, Kelly,; Doty, Clarke,; Dracup, Kathleen,; Duchscher, Judy Boychuk,; Duffy, Anne,; Egger, Barbara,; Fagin, Claire M.,; Ferri, Richard S.,; Fitzpatrick, Lisa,; Geldard, Eleanor,; Gerard, Bernie,; Grinspun, Doris,; Hafsteinsdóttir, Thóra B.,; Harrington, Charlene,; Henson, Faith,; Higgins, Karen,; Hoffman, Toni,; Hubka, Kathy,; Johnson, Ruth,; Kanamori, Yuko,; Kendall, Jenny,; Kozub, Elizabeth,; Licata, Ro,; Lipscomb, Jane,; Montgomery, Kathryn Lothschuetz,; Moreno-Casbas, Teresa,; Morieson, Belinda,; Owley, Candice,; O’Leary, Edmond,; Phipps, Marion,; Rankin, Janet,; Ribetto, Massimo,; Rich, Victoria L.,; Richardson, Charlene L.,; Robinson-Blake, Clola,; Scamperle, Paola,; Schaefer, Judy,; Schroeder, Donna,; Sharp, Lena,; Sheridan-Gonzalez, Judy,; Simon, Faith,; Smith, Thomas,; Sosne, Diane,; Spiers, Madeline,; Stecher, Jo,; Stevens, Kristin,; Stewart, Judy,; Sáenz de Ormijana, Amaia,; Thiadens, Saskia R. J.,; Tonges, Mary Crabtree,; Trueman, Gregg,; Valentine, Nancy Marie,; Wagner, Pierre-André,; Youngson, Carol,
• HerausgeberIn: Gordon, Suzanne,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

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...

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