Nursing Against the Odds: How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, And Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses And Patient Care (The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work)

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

Book Description:

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.


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