Saving Lives - Why the Media's Portrayal of Nursing Puts Us All at Risk (Paperback, Updated Edition)

For millions of people worldwide, nurses are the difference between life and death, self-sufficiency and dependency, hope and despair. But a lack of understanding of what nurses really do - one perpetuated by popular media's portrayal of nurses as simplistic archetypes - has devalued the profession and contributed to a global shortage that constitutes a public health crisis. Today, the thin ranks of the nursing workforce contribute to countless preventable deaths. This fully updated and expanded edition of Saving Lives highlights the essential roles nurses play in contemporary health care and how this role is marginalized by contemporary culture. Through engaging prose and examples drawn from television, advertising, and news coverage, the authors detail the media's role in reinforcing stereotypes that fuel the nursing shortage and devalue a highly educated sector of the contemporary workforce. Perhaps most important, the authors provide a wealth of ideas to help reinvigorate the nursing field and correct this imbalance. As American health care undergoes its greatest overhaul in decades, the practical role of nurses - that as autonomous, highly skilled practitioners - has never been more important. Accordingly, Saving Lives addresses both the sources of, and prescription for, misperceptions surrounding contemporary nursing.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2014
First published:	October 2014
Authors:	Sandy Summers • Harry Jacobs Summers
Dimensions:	234 x 172 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	456
Edition:	Updated Edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-933706-4
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > General Books > Medicine > Nursing & ancillary services > Nursing > General Books > Academic & Education > Varsity Textbooks > Nursing
LSN:	0-19-933706-3
Barcode:	9780199337064

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