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When chicken soup isn't enough : stories of nurses standing up for themselves, their patients, and their profession /
This title brings together personal narratives from a wide range of nurses from across the globe. The assembled profiles in professional courage provide new insight into the daily challenges that RNs face in North America and abroad.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
ILR Press,
2010.
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| Colección: | Culture and politics of health care work.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. 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 Licata.
- pt. 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 Ormijana.
- pt. 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 if for / Jean Chaisson
- A real pain / Paola Scamperle.
- pt. 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 Morieson.
- pt. 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. Ferri.
- pt. 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-E-S-P-E-C-T / Lisa Fitzpatrick
- Real nurses don't wear wings / Victoria L. Rich
- The lady with a loud voice / Jeanne Bryner
- Taking on the terminator / Vicki Bermudez
- Defending the nursing profession over dinner / Elizabeth Kozub
- Remaking the power nurse / Pierre-André Wagner
- Health policy from nurses' point of view / Yoko Kanamori
- Maybe we should be bragging / Guðrún Aðalsteinsdóttir
- Finessing the Chairman of the Board / Carol Blount
- Called to duty at 30,000 feet / Ann Converso.
- pt. 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 nurse make it work / Kathryn Lothschuetz Montgomery
- Teamwork through research / Lena Sharp
- Keep asking questions / Sean Clarke
- No more Martys / Jane Lipscomb
- Taking on conventional wisdom / Thóra B. Hafsteinsdóttir.
- pt. 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 Connoly.
- pt. 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.