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.)

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.

Table of Contents

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