Nursing against the odds:how health care cost cutting, media stereotypes, and medical hubris undermine nurses and patient care

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gordon Suzanne. 1945-
Published: ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press,
Publisher Address: Ithaca, N.Y.
Publication Dates: c2005.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: The culture and politics of health care work
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Carrier Form: xi, 489 p.: ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0801439760 (cloth : alk. paper)
Index Number: R47
CLC: R47-05
Call Number: R47-097.12/G662
Contents: Includes bibliographical references (p. 451-474) and index.
pt. 1. Nurses and doctors at work -- 1. Manufacturing the dominant doctor -- 2. Designing the doctor-nurse game -- 3. The disruptive medical system -- 4. Fatal synergy -- 5. Making matters worse -- pt. 2. The media and nursing -- 6. Dropped from the picture -- 7. Missing from the news -- 8. Unavailable for comment -- pt. 3. Hospitals and nursing -- 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.