Saving Lives Why the Media’s Portrayal of Nursing Puts Us All at Risk 2nd Edtion by Sandy Summers, Harry Jacobs Summers ISBN 019933708X 9780199337088

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ISBN 10: 019933708X

ISBN 13: 9780199337088

Author: Sandy Summers, Harry Jacobs Summers

Saving Lives: Why the Media’s Portrayal of Nursing Puts Us All at Risk 2nd Edtion: For millions of people worldwide, nurses are the difference between life and death, self-sufficiency and dependency, hope and despair. But a lack of understanding of what nurses really do — one perpetuated by popular media’s portrayal of nurses as simplistic archetypes — has devalued the profession and contributed to a global shortage that constitutes a public health crisis. Today, the thin ranks of the nursing workforce contribute to countless preventable deaths.

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. Perhaps most important, the authors provide a wealth of ideas to help reinvigorate the nursing field and correct this imbalance.

As American health care undergoes its greatest overhaul in decades, the practical role of nurses — that as autonomous, highly skilled practitioners — has never been more important. Accordingly, Saving Lives addresses both the sources of, and prescription for, misperceptions surrounding contemporary nursing.

 

Saving Lives: Why the Media’s Portrayal of Nursing Puts Us All at Risk 2nd EdtionTable of contents:

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

 

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