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Life Support - Three Nurses on the Front Lines (Paperback)
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Life Support - Three Nurses on the Front Lines (Paperback)
Series: The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
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Life Support offers an intimate and important look at what nurses
do for patients and their families. It takes us right to the
bedside on hospital wards and home visits, in clinics and emergency
rooms, capturing the drama of nurses' work in the story of three
RNs at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital. Gordon's heroines are nurse
practitioner Ellen Kitchen, who bicycles through poor neighborhoods
in Boston to visit elderly patients at home; oncology nurse Nancy
Rumplik, whose technical skill and emotional support enable cancer
patients to endure some of the most arduous high-tech medical
treatments; and clinical nurse specialist Jeannie Chaisson, who
helps new RNs and physicians begin their careers on a general
medical floor. Life Support draws on the experience of these and
other nurses to examine the history of their profession, the
complex relationship between doctors and nurses, and the central
role that nurses play in the final days of life, when care, not
cure, is a patient's main concern. In addition, the book makes a
powerful critique of hospital restructuring and managed care.
Gordon shows how understaffing, shorter hospital stays, layoffs,
and replacement of nurses by unlicensed personnel are threatening
the quality of care and shifting more of its burden onto patients'
families. She describes what consumers can do to resist these
trends - through alliances with concerned providers.
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