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Author Gordon, Suzanne, 1945-

Title Nursing against the odds : how health care cost cutting, media stereotypes, and medical hubris undermine nurses and patient care / Suzanne Gordon.

Publication Info. Ithaca, N.Y. : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, [2005]
©2005

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 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  610.73 GOR    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  610.73 G665N    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  610.73 G665N c.2  Check Shelf
Description xi, 489 pages ; 24 cm.
Series The culture and politics of health care work
Culture and politics of health care work.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-474) and index.
Contents 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 -- part 2. The media and nursing. -- Dropped from the picture -- Missing from the news -- Unavailable for comment -- part 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.
Summary "Gordon examines how health care cost cutting and hospital restructuring undermine the working conditions necesssary for quality care. She shows how the historically troubled workplace relationships between RNs and physicians have become even more dysfunctional in modern hospitals. In Gordon's view, the public images of nurses continues to suffer from negative media stereotyping in medical programs on television and from shoddy press coverage of the important role RNs play in the delivery of health care." "Gordon also identifies the class and status divisions within the profession that hinder a much-needed defense of bedside nursing. She explains why some would-be policy panaceas - hiring more temporary workers, importing RNs from less-developed countries - fail to address the forces that drive nurses out of their workplaces. To promote better care, Gordon calls for a broad agenda that includes safer staffing, improved scheduling, and other policy changes that would give nurses a greater voice at work. She explores how doctors and nurses can collaborate more effectively and what medical and nursing education must do to foster such cooperation. Finally, Gordon outlines the ways in which RNs can successfully take their case to the public while campaigning for health care system reform that actually funds necessary nursing care."--Jacket.
Subject Nursing -- Social aspects -- United States.
Nursing -- United States -- Public opinion.
Nurses -- United States -- Public opinion.
Nurses -- United States -- Social conditions.
Nurses in mass media.
Nurse and physician.
Nursing.
Attitude of Health Personnel.
Job Satisfaction.
Nurses -- psychology.
Physician-Nurse Relations.
Public Opinion.
United States.
Nurse and physician. (OCoLC)fst01041465
Nurses in mass media. (OCoLC)fst01041705
Nurses -- Public opinion. (OCoLC)fst01041672
Nurses -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01041682
Nursing -- Public opinion. (OCoLC)fst01041808
Nursing -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01041827
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
ISBN 0801439760 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780801439766 (cloth ; alk. paper)
080147292X (pbk.)
9780801472923 (pbk.)
9780801465048 (e-book)
0801465044 (e-book)
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