Nursing against the Odds : : How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, and Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses and Patient Care / / Suzanne Gordon.
In the United States and throughout the industrialized world, just as the population of older and sicker patients is about to explode, we have a major shortage of nurses. Why are so many RNs dropping out of health care's largest profession? How will the lack of skilled, experienced caregivers a...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| 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
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (512 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part One: Nurses and Doctors at Work
- Introduction
- 1. Manufacturing the Dominant Doctor
- 2. Designing the Doctor-Nurse Game
- 3. The Disruptive Medical System
- 4. Fatal Synergy
- 5. Making Matters Worse
- Part Two: The Media and Nursing
- Introduction
- 6. Dropped from the Picture
- 7. Missing from the News
- 8. Unavailable for Comment
- Part Three: Hospitals and Nursing
- Introduction
- 9. Mangling Care
- 10. The New Nursing Universe
- 11. Nurses on the Ropes
- 12. No Nurse Left Behind
- 13. Management by Churn
- 14. Failure to Rescue
- Conclusion: Changing the Odds
- Notes
- Index