Suzanne Gordon

Life Support (eBook, PDF)

Three Nurses on the Front Lines

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Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Suzanne Gordon describes the everyday work of three RNs in Boston-a nurse practitioner, an oncology nurse, and a clinical nurse specialist on a medical unit. At a time when nursing is often undervalued and nurses themselves in short supply, Life Support provides a vivid, engaging, and intimate portrait of health care's largest profession and the important role it plays in patients' lives.

Life Support is essential reading for working nurses, nursing students, and anyone considering a career in nursing as well as for physicians and health policy makers seeking a better understanding of what nurses do and why we need them. For the Cornell edition of this landmark work, Gordon has written a new introduction that describes the current nursing crisis and its impact on bedside nurses like those she profiled in the book.

GordonSuzanne:

Suzanne Gordon is an award-winning journalist. She has written, edited, or co-authored twenty books, including First Do No Harm, Beyond the Checklist, Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines, and Caregiving: Readings in Knowledge, Practice, Ethics, and Politics. She is an adjunct professor in the school of nursing at McGill University. Gordon is a health-care commentator on Public Radio International's Marketplace and a popular lecturer on nursing and health care. Gordon has been published in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, American Prospect, Atlantic Monthly, Harpers Magazine. She has been a radio and TV commentator for CBS Radio and NPR's Marketplace. She lives in Arlington, Massachusetts.FaginClaire M.:

Suzanne Gordon is an award-winning journalist. She 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 the author of Nursing against the Odds, the coauthor of From Silence to Voice, and the coeditor of The Complexities of Care, all from Cornell. Claire Fagin is Leadership Professor Emerita, Dean Emerita and Interim President Emerita at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780801465031
• Artikelnr.: 48411397

Autorenporträt

Suzanne Gordon. foreword by Claire M. Fagin

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword to the Cornell Edition by Claire M. Fagin, R. N., Ph. D.,
F.A.A.N.Preface
CHAPTER 1: The Tapestry of Care
CHAPTER 2: Nancy Rumplik - The Care of Strangers
CHAPTER 3: Jeannie Chaisson - Not on the Charts
CHAPTER 4: Ellen Kitchen - A Special Visitor
CHAPTER 5: Nancy Rumplik - The Meaning of Illness
CHAPTER 6: Jeannie Chaisson - A Mentor of Their Own
CHAPTER 7: Ellen Kitchen - Collaborative Care
CHAPTER 8: Nancy Rumplik - A Good Enough Death
CHAPTER 9: Ellen Kitchen - Final Checkups
CHAPTER 10: Jeannie - Chaisson A Good Enough Death II
CHAPTER 11: Unraveling the Tapestry of Care
CONCLUSION: Preserving the Tapestry of CareAfterword to the Cornell Edition
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index