Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines

Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines
ISBN-10
0801465036
ISBN-13
9780801465031
Series
Life Support
Category
Medical
Pages
366
Language
English
Published
2012-03-15
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Author
Suzanne Gordon

Description

In this book, Suzanne Gordon describes the everyday work of three RNs in Boston-a nurse practitioner, an oncology nurse, and a clinical nurse specialist on a medical unit. At a time when nursing is often undervalued and nurses themselves in short supply, Life Support provides a vivid, engaging, and intimate portrait of health care's largest profession and the important role it plays in patients' lives. Life Support is essential reading for working nurses, nursing students, and anyone considering a career in nursing as well as for physicians and health policy makers seeking a better understanding of what nurses do and why we need them. For the Cornell edition of this landmark work, Gordon has written a new introduction that describes the current nursing crisis and its impact on bedside nurses like those she profiled in the book.

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