Nursing against the odds : how health care cost cutting, media stereotypes, and medical hubris undermine nurses and patient care / Suzanne Gordon.
By: Gordon, Suzanne
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TextSeries: Culture and politics of health care work. Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, c2005Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 451-474) and index.Description: xi, 489 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0801439760 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780801439766 (cloth : alk. paper).Subject(s): Nursing -- Social aspects -- United States | Nursing -- United States -- Public opinion | Nurses -- United States -- Social conditions | Nurses in mass media | Nurse and physicianDDC classification: 610.73/0973 Online resources: Table of contents | Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Two Weeks | Davenport Library Circulating Collection | Print-Circulating | 610.73 G658 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34284003688884 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 451-474) and index.
pt. 1. Nurses and doctors at work. -- Manufacturing the dominant doctor -- Designing the doctor-nurse game -- The disruptive medical system -- Fatal synergy -- Making matters worse -- pt. 2. The media and nursing. -- Dropped from the picture -- Missing from the news -- Unavailable for comment -- pt. 3. Hospitals and nursing. -- Mangling care -- The new nursing universe -- Nurses on the ropes -- No nurse left behind -- Management by churn -- Failure to rescue -- Conclusion : Changing the odds.
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