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Informationen zum Autor Suzanne Gordon is an award-winning journalist. She is the author of Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines , the coauthor of From Silence to Voice: What Nurses Know and Must Communicate to the Public (also from Cornell), and has written for the New York Times , the Boston Globe , and the Toronto Globe and Mail , among many other publications. Gordon is also Assistant Adjunct Professor at the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing and was a health care commentator on Public Radio International's Marketplace. Klappentext A leading health care journalist unravels the complexity of the current nursing shortage while offering possible solutions to the resulting health care crisis. Zusammenfassung In this book, Suzanne Gordon draws on in-depth interviews with nurses and other health care professionals, research studies, and extensive firsthand reporting to better understand the myriad causes of and possible solutions to the current nursing crisis. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionPart One: Nurses and Doctors at Work Manufacturing the Dominant Doctor Designing the Doctor-Nurse Game The Disruptive Medical System Fatal Synergy Making Matters WorsePart Two: The Media and Nursing Dropped from the Picture Missing from the News Unavailable for CommentPart Three: Hospitals and Nursing Mangling Care The New Nursing Universe Nurses on the Ropes No Nurse Left Behind Management by Chum Failure to RescueConclusion: Changing the OddsNotes Index
