Gordon, Suzanne

Nursing against the odds: how health care cost cutting, media stereotypes, and medical hubris undermine nurses and patient care. / Suzanne Gordon - New York: Cornell University Press, c2005. - xi,489p. 23cm.

includes index

Contents: Introduction -- Part one: nurses and doctors at work -- Manufacturing the dominant doctor -- Designing the doctor-nurse game -- The Disruptive medical system -- Fatal synergy -- Making matters worse -- Part two: The Media and nursing -- Dropped from the picture -- Missing from the news -- Unavailable for comment -- Part three: Hospitals and Nursing -- Managing care -- The New nursing universe -- Nurses on the ropes -- No Nurses left behind -- Management by churn -- Failure to rescue -- Conclusion: changing the odds -- Notes.

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