When Chicken Soup Isn't Enough: Stories of Nurses Standing Up for Themselves, Their Patients, and Their Profession

by Suzanne Gordon

Book Overview

The reassuring bromides of "chicken soup for the soul" provide little solace for nurses--and the people they serve--in real-life hospitals, nursing homes, schools of nursing, and other settings. In the minefield of modern health care, there are myriad obstacles to quality patient care--including work overload, inadequate funds for nursing education and research, and poor communication between and within the professions, to name only a few. The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801448948
• ISBN13: 9780801448942
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: ILR Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 5.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher