| Description |
xi, 489 pages ; 24 cm |
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The culture and politics of health care work |
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Culture and politics of health care work.
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| Contents |
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 |
| 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."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes Notes and Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-474) and index |
| Subject |
Nursing -- Study and teaching.
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Nursing -- Practice.
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Public opinion -- United States.
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Job satisfaction.
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Public opinion.
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Nursing -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Nursing -- United States -- Public opinion.
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Nurses -- United States -- Public opinion.
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Nurses -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Nurses in mass media.
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Nurse and physician.
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Physician-Nurse Relations.
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Attitude of Health Personnel.
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Public Opinion.
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Job Satisfaction.
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Nurses -- psychology.
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Nursing.
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| SUBJECT |
United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
| Author |
EBSCOhost
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| LC no. |
2004028248 |
| ISBN |
0801439760 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780801439766 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780801472923 paperback alkaline paper |
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080147292X paperback alkaline paper |
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