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.