When Chicken Soup Isn't Enough

Stories of Nurses Standing Up for Themselves, Their Patients, and Their Profession
Herausgeber: Gordon, Suzanne

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Produktbeschreibung

The 70 RNs whose stories are collected here by award-winning journalist Gordon know that effective patient advocacy isn't easy. These profiles in professional courage provide new insight into the daily challenges that RNs face in North America and abroad.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 159mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780801448942
• ISBN-10: 0801448948
• Artikelnr.: 28034440

Autorenporträt

Suzanne Gordon is Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing and Assistant Adjunct Professor at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Nursing. She is author of Life Support and Nursing against the Odds, coauthor of Safety in Numbers and From Silence to Voice, and coeditor of The Complexities of Care, all from Cornell.

Inhaltsangabe

IntroductionPart 1: Set Up to Lose, but Playing to Win A Covert Operation
Kathleen Bartholomew Saving Patients from Dr. Death
Toni Hoffman A Lesson for the Principal
Kathy Hubka The Delicate Discharge
Ruth Johnson No Patience for Poison
Brenda Carle Mr. CEO, Will You Marry Me?
Candice Owley Intolerable Behavior
Eleanor Geldard One Is One Too Many
Thomas Smith A Comfortable Cover Up
Jenny Kendall Stacking the Cards in Our Favor
Ro LicataPart 2: We Don't Have to Eat Our Young Mentor Unto Others...
Clola Robinson
Blake A Dose of Diplomacy
Donna Schroeder Standing Up for What You Don't Know
Judy Schaefer Broken Bones and Ice Cream
Edie Brous Treating Transition Shock
Judy Boychuk Duchscher The Empty
Hands Round
Amaia Sáenz de OrmijanaPart 3: Excuse Me, Doctor, You're Wrong Eye/I Advocacy
Jane Black As If the Patient Can Hear You
Clarke Doty Don't Just Add Nurses and Stir
Janet Rankin Gloves Off
Nancy Marie Valentine The Overlooked Symptom
Jo Stecher Hope in the Midst of Tragedy
Connie Barden The Advantages of Age
Marion Phipps An Expiration Date for Indignancy
Madeline Spiers What Hospice Is For
Jean Chaisson A Real Pain
Paola ScamperlePart 4: Not Part of the Job Description I'll Call in Sick If I Have To
Barbara Egger Doing the Heavy Lifting
Martha Baker Attacked by a Patient, Abandoned by My Hospital
Charlene L. Richardson The Samurai Sword
Anne Duffy Only When It's Safe
Bernie Gerard The Red Shirts Are Coming
Mary Crabtree Tonges Not Saints or Sisters
Belinda MoriesonPart 5 When One Advocate Can Make a Difference Putting Lymphedema on the Map
Saskia R. J. Thiadens An Inconvenient Nurse
Faith Henson A Safe Delivery from Domestic Abuse
Kristin Stevens To Do the Unthinkable
Barry L. Adams The Only Nurse for Miles Around
Dagbjört Bjarnadóttir More Than Boo
boos and Band
Aids
Judy Stewart First Responders in the AIDS Epidemic
Richard S. FerriPart 6: Choking on Sugar and Spice: Challenging Nurses' Public Image Silenced during the SARS Epidemic
Doris Grinspun In the Halls of Academe
Claire M. Fagin R
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Lisa Fitzpatrick Real Nurses Don't Wear Wings
Victoria L. Rich The Lady with a Loud Voice
Jeanne Byner Taking on the Terminator
Vicki Bermudez Defending the Nursing Profession over Dinner
Elizabeth Kozub Remaking the Power Nurse
Pierre
Andre Wagner Health Policy from Nurses' Point of View
Yuko Kanamori Maybe We Should Be Bragging
Guðrún Aðalsteinsdóttir Finessing the Chairman of the Board
Carol Blount Called to Duty at 30,000 Feet
Ann ConversoPart 7: Applied Research Nurse PI on a Clinical Trial
Kathleen Dracup The Need for Nurse Evaluators
Teresa Moreno
Casbas Research and Nursing
Home Reform
Charlene Harrington How Nurses Make It Work
Kathryn Lothschuetz Montgomery Teamwork through Research
Lena Sharp Keep Asking Questions
Sean Clarke No More Martyrs
fane Lipscomb Taking On Conventional Wisdom
Thóra B. HafsteinsdóttirPart 8: Sticking Together Winning Recognition of Nursing Expertise
Edie Brous A Union Just for Nurses
Massimo Ribetto We Rained on Their Parade
Judy Sheridan
Gonzalez Protesting on the Red Carpet
Kelly DiGiacomo Saving the Carney
Penny ConnollyPart 9: Still Fighting The Male Midwife
Gregg Trueman Fighting for Our Vets
Edmond O'Leary We Are the Experts
Karen Higgins A Collective Voice
Diane Sosne We Will Not Be Silenced
Carol Youngson Standing By One Patient
Faith Simon