Life Support : : Three Nurses on the Front Lines / / Suzanne Gordon.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Gordon, Suzanne,
• MitwirkendeR: Chaisson, Jeannie,; Fagin, Claire M.,; Kitchen, Ellen,; Rumplik, Nancy,; Rumpllk, Nancy,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword to the Cornell Edition --; Preface --; Chapter 1. The Tapestry of Care --; Chapter 2. The Care of Strangers --; Chapter 3. Not on the Charts --; Chapter 4. A Special Visitor --; Chapter 5. The Meaning of Illness --; Chapter 6. A Mentor of Their Own --; Chapter 7. Collaborative Care --; Chapter 8. A Good Enough Death --; Chapter 9. Final Checkups --; Chapter 10. A Good Enough Death II --; Chapter 11. Unraveling the Tapestry of Care --; Conclusion: Preserving the Tapestry of Care --; Afterword to the Cornell Edition --; Notes --; Selected Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780801465031; 9783110536157
• DOI: 10.7591/9780801465031
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Suzanne Gordon.

In this book, Suzanne Gordon describes the everyday work of three RNs in Boston—a nurse practitioner, an oncology nurse, and a clinical nurse specialist on a medical unit. At a time when nursing is often undervalued and nurses themselves in short supply, Life Support provides a vivid, engaging, and intimate portrait of health care's largest profession and the important role it plays in patients' lives.Life Support is essential reading for working nurses, nursing students, and anyone considering a career in nursing as well as for physicians and health policy makers seeking a better understanding of what nurses do and why we need them. For the Cornell edition of this landmark work, Gordon has written a new introduction that describes the current nursing crisis and its impact on bedside nurses like those she profiled in the book.