Saving lives : why the media's portrayal of nursing puts us all at risk / Sandy Summers, Harry Jacobs Summers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Summers, Sandy, author.

Summers, Harry, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nurses.

Nurses in mass media.

Nursing--Standards.

Nursing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (452 p.)

Edition:

Updated second edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

Foreword by Echo Heron

Introduction

Part One: Dangerous Ignorance: Why Our Understanding of Nursing Matters

Chapter 1: Who are Nurses and Where Have They Gone?

Chapter 2: How Nursing's Image Affects Your Health

Part Two: The Great Divide: The Media versus Real Nursing

Chapter 3: Could Monkeys Be Nurses?

Chapter 4: Yes, Doctor! No, Doctor!

Chapter 5: The Naughtiest Nurse

Chapter 6: Who Wants Yesterday's Girl?

Chapter 7: You Are My Angel

Chapter 8: Winning the Battle-Axe, Losing the War

Chapter 9: Advanced Practice Nurses: Skilled Professionals or Cut-Rate Physician

Part Three: Seeking Better Understanding of Nursing-and Better Health Care

Chapter 10: How We Can All Improve Understanding of Nursing

Chapter 11: How Nurses Can Improve Their Own Image.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-933708-X

0-19-022142-9

0-19-933707-1

OCLC:

891396836