 | Nursing against the Odds: How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, and Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses and Patient Care Subjects: Nursing -- Social aspects -- United States; Nursing -- United States -- Public opinion; Nurses -- United States -- Public opinion; Nurses -- United States -- Social conditions; Nurses in mass media; Nurse and physician; In this book, Suzanne Gordon draws on in-depth interviews with nurses and other health care professionals, research studies, and extensive firsthand reporting to better understand the myriad causes of and possible solutions to the current nursing crisis. Suzanne Gordon is an award-winning journalist. She is the author of Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines , the coauthor of From Silence to Voice: What Nurses Know and Must Communicate to the Public (also from Cornell), and has written for the New York Times , the Boston Globe , and the Toronto Globe and Mail , among many other publications. Gordon is also Assistant Adjunct Professor at the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing and was a health care commentator on Public Radio International's Marketplace. |
