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