Nursing against the odds:how health care cost cutting, media stereotypes, and medical hubris undermine nurses and patient care
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ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press,
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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. |