In the United States and throughout the industrialized world,
just as the population of older and sicker patients is about to
explode, we have a major shortage of nurses. Why are so many RNs
dropping out of health care's largest profession? How will the lack
of skilled, experienced caregivers affect patients? These are some
of the questions addressed by Suzanne Gordon's definitive account
of the world's nursing crisis. In Nursing against the Odds, one of
North America's leading health care journalists draws on in-depth
interviews, research studies, and extensive firsthand reporting to
help readers better understand the myriad causes of and possible
solutions to the current crisis.
Gordon examines how health care cost cutting and hospital
restructuring undermine the working conditions necessary for
quality care. She shows how the historically troubled workplace
relationships between RNs and physicians become even more
dysfunctional in modern hospitals. In Gordon's view, the public
image of nurses continues to suffer from negative media
stereotyping in medical shows on television and from shoddy press
coverage of the important role RNs play in the delivery of health
care.
Gordon also identifies the class and status divisions within the
profession that hinder a much-needed defense of bedside nursing.
She explains why some policy panaceas hiring more temporary
workers, importing RNs from less-developed countries fail to
address the forces that drive nurses out of their workplaces. To
promote better care, Gordon calls for a broad agenda that includes
safer staffing, improved scheduling, and other policy changes that
would give nurses a greater voice at work. She explores how doctors
and nurses can collaborate more effectively and what medical and
nursing education must do to foster such cooperation. Finally,
Gordon outlines ways in which RNs can successfully take their case
to the public while campaigning for health care system reform that
actually funds necessary nursing care."
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