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...

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