Author: Suzanne Gordon
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Keywords: care, health, nurses, undermine, patient, politics, work, hubris, culture, stereotypes, cost, odds, cutting, media, nursing, medical
Number of Pages: 504
Published: 2005-03-17
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0801439760
ISBN-13: 9780801439766

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

Author: Suzanne Gordon
Publisher: ILR Press
Keywords: care, health, nurses, undermine, patient, politics, work, hubris, culture, stereotypes, cost, odds, cutting, media, nursing, medical
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2006-03-09
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 080147292X
ISBN-13: 9780801472923

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.

Authors:E. A. Balas, Suzanne Austin Boren, Gordon D. Brown,
Publisher: IOS Press
Keywords: technology, studies, health, informatics, union, states, strategies, united, information, european
Number of Pages: 134
Published: 2000-01-01
List price: $82.00
ISBN-10: 158603054X
ISBN-13: 9781586030544

Clinical and biomedical research production is rapidly growing, but delivery to practitioners remains unacceptably slow. To improve health care quality and to make the best scientific achievements part of usual practices, clinicians need better information systems and services. The international, multi-disciplinary author team presents analyses and recommendations that will lead to competitive advantages by increasing quality and effectiveness of health care delivery. The book includes the latest findings on: -Advanced information technologies in disseminating research results -Information

Authors:David J. Caudle, Suzanne Disheroon-Green, Suzanne Di
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: bibliographies, indexes, women, studies, works, critical, chopin, annotated, bibliography, kate
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 1999-06-30
List price: $112.95
ISBN-10: 0313304246
ISBN-13: 9780313304248

Kate Chopin has emerged as one of the most significant American writers of the nineteenth century. Though her works typically reflect the language and customs of Louisiana, they also make universal comments about women, men, and human relationships. The last thirty years have witnessed heightened scholarly interest in her writings. This bibliography surveys the vast amount of scholarship published on Chopin between 1976 and 1998, with some coverage of 1999. Included are annotated entries for books, articles, and dissertations, along with extensive indexes. The volume also provides a biographic

Authors:Walter Bernhart, Suzanne Aspden, Suzanne M. Lodato,
Publisher: Editions Rodopi B.V.
Keywords: word, studies, music, identity, musical, amp, cultural, stage, paul, essays, honor, steven, scher
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2002-12-12
List price: $52.50
ISBN-10: 9042009934
ISBN-13: 9789042009936

The eighteen interdisciplinary essays in this volume were presented in 2001 in Sydney, Australia, at the Third International Conference on Word and Music Studies, which was sponsored by The International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA). The conference celebrated the sixty-fifth birthday of Steven Paul Scher, arguably the central figure in word and music studies during the last thirty-five years. The first section of this volume comprises ten articles that discuss, or are methodologically based upon, Scher’s many analyses of and critical commentaries on the field, particularly on

Authors:Suzanne Sparks, Suzanne Fitzgerald, Melody Templeton
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: presentations, guide, quick, schaum
Number of Pages: 190
Published: 1998-12-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0070220611
ISBN-13: 9780070220614

This guide provides all the essential tools for making organized and persuasive oral presentations. YouÕll find exercisesÑfor use alone or in a groupÑto sharpen your skills and build self-confidence. Well-chosen examples illustrate and make memorable the doÕs and donÕts of successful talks and help you avoid common pitfalls. This guide includes tips on dealing with nervousness, and shows you how to use effective body language, visual aids, questions and answers, metaphors and more, to keep your audience excited and ready to remember your key points. Full of tips and techniques that work

Authors:Gordon Mathews, Gordon Matthews, Carolina Izquierdo,
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Keywords: perspective, anthropological, happiness, pursuits
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-10-01
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 1845454480
ISBN-13: 9781845454487

Anthropology has long shied away from examining how human beings may lead happy and fulfilling lives. This book, however, shows that the ethnographic examination of well-being defined as the optimal state for an individual, a community, and a society and the comparison of well-being within and across societies is a new and important area for anthropological inquiry. Distinctly different in different places, but also reflecting our common humanity, well-being is intimately linked to the idea of happiness and its pursuits. Noted anthropological researchers have come together in this volume to ex