{"product_id":"when-chicken-soup-isnt-enough-stories-of-nurses-standing-up-for-themselves-their-patients-and-their-profession-paperback-softback-9780801477508","title":"When Chicken Soup Isn't Enough; Stories of Nurses Standing Up for Themselves, Their Patients, and Their Profession (Paperback \/ softback) 9780801477508","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWhen Chicken Soup Isn't Enough\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eStories of Nurses Standing Up for Themselves, Their Patients, and Their Profession\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSuzanne Gordon (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780801477508\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 November 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese stories show how nurses have stepped up their care to include advocating for patients and offering solutions to some of these problems while continuing to perform their duties with expertise and compassion. Increasingly, nurses are self-advocates who participate actively in determining the parameters of good patient care.... Each chapter is complete unto itself and a good read; taken as a whole, the chapters clearly suggest that nurses are defining and implementing important new roles for themselves in the modern health care delivery system—a development that bodes well for patients, the system, and nurses.\u003c\/p\u003e (Choice)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/b\u003e 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 seventy RNs whose stories are collected here by the award-winning journalist Suzanne Gordon know that effective advocacy isn't easy. It takes nurses willing to stand up for themselves, their coworkers, their patients, and the public.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen Chicken Soup Isn't Enough brings together compelling personal narratives from a wide range of nurses from across the globe. The assembled profiles in professional courage provide new insight into the daily challenges that RNs face in North America and abroad—and how they overcome them with skill, ingenuity, persistence, and individual and collective advocacy at work and in the community. In this collection, we meet RNs working at the bedside, providing home care, managing hospital departments, teaching and doing research, lobbying for quality patient care, and campaigning for health care reform. Their stories are funny, sad, deeply moving, inspiring, and always revealing of the different ways that nurses make their voices heard in the service of their profession. The risks and rewards, joys and sorrows, of nursing have rarely been captured in such vivid first-person accounts. Gordon and the authors of the essays contained in this book have much to say about the strengths and shortcomings of health care today—and the role that nurses play as irreplaceable agents of change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 1: Set Up to Lose, but Playing to Win\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A Covert Operation - Kathleen Bartholomew\u003cbr\u003e Saving Patients from Dr. Death - Toni Hoffman\u003cbr\u003e A Lesson for the Principal - Kathy Hubka\u003cbr\u003e The Delicate Discharge - Ruth Johnson\u003cbr\u003e No Patience for Poison - Brenda Carle\u003cbr\u003e Mr. CEO, Will You Marry Me? - Candice Owley\u003cbr\u003e Intolerable Behavior - Eleanor Geldard\u003cbr\u003e One Is One Too Many - Thomas Smith\u003cbr\u003e A Comfortable Cover Up - Jenny Kendall\u003cbr\u003e Stacking the Cards in Our Favor - Ro Licata\u003cb\u003ePart 2: We Don't Have to Eat Our Young\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Mentor Unto Others...- Clola Robinson-Blake\u003cbr\u003e A Dose of Diplomacy - Donna Schroeder\u003cbr\u003e Standing Up for What You Don't Know - Judy Schaefer\u003cbr\u003e Broken Bones and Ice Cream - Edie Brous\u003cbr\u003e Treating Transition Shock - Judy Boychuk Duchscher\u003cbr\u003e The Empty-Hands Round - Amaia Sáenz de Ormijana\u003cb\u003ePart 3: Excuse Me, Doctor, You're Wrong\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Eye\/I Advocacy - Jane Black\u003cbr\u003e As If the Patient Can Hear You - Clarke Doty\u003cbr\u003e Don't Just Add Nurses and Stir - Janet Rankin\u003cbr\u003e Gloves Off - Nancy Marie Valentine\u003cbr\u003e The Overlooked Symptom - Jo Stecher\u003cbr\u003e Hope in the Midst of Tragedy - Connie Barden\u003cbr\u003e The Advantages of Age - Marion Phipps\u003cbr\u003e An Expiration Date for Indignancy - Madeline Spiers\u003cbr\u003e What Hospice Is For - Jean Chaisson\u003cbr\u003e A Real Pain - Paola Scamperle\u003cb\u003ePart 4: Not Part of the Job Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I'll Call in Sick If I Have To - Barbara Egger\u003cbr\u003e Doing the Heavy Lifting - Martha Baker\u003cbr\u003e Attacked by a Patient, Abandoned by My Hospital - Charlene L. Richardson\u003cbr\u003e The Samurai Sword - Anne Duffy\u003cbr\u003e Only When It's Safe - Bernie Gerard\u003cbr\u003e The Red Shirts Are Coming - Mary Crabtree Tonges\u003cbr\u003e Not Saints or Sisters - Belinda Morieson\u003cb\u003ePart 5 When One Advocate Can Make a Difference\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Putting Lymphedema on the Map - Saskia R. J. Thiadens\u003cbr\u003e An Inconvenient Nurse - Faith Henson\u003cbr\u003e A Safe Delivery from Domestic Abuse - Kristin Stevens\u003cbr\u003e To Do the Unthinkable - Barry L. Adams\u003cbr\u003e The Only Nurse for Miles Around - Dagbjört Bjarnadóttir\u003cbr\u003e More Than Boo-boos and Band-Aids - Judy Stewart\u003cbr\u003e First Responders in the AIDS Epidemic - Richard S. Ferri\u003cb\u003ePart 6: Choking on Sugar and Spice: Challenging Nurses' Public Image\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Silenced during the SARS Epidemic - Doris Grinspun\u003cbr\u003e In the Halls of Academe - Claire M. Fagin\u003cbr\u003e R-E-S-P-E-C-T - Lisa Fitzpatrick\u003cbr\u003e Real Nurses Don't Wear Wings - Victoria L. Rich\u003cbr\u003e The Lady with a Loud Voice - Jeanne Byner\u003cbr\u003e Taking on the Terminator - Vicki Bermudez\u003cbr\u003e Defending the Nursing Profession over Dinner - Elizabeth Kozub\u003cbr\u003e Remaking the Power Nurse - Pierre-Andre Wagner\u003cbr\u003e Health Policy from Nurses' Point of View - Yuko Kanamori\u003cbr\u003e Maybe We Should Be Bragging - Guðrún Aðalsteinsdóttir\u003cbr\u003e Finessing the Chairman of the Board - Carol Blount\u003cbr\u003e Called to Duty at 30,000 Feet - Ann Converso\u003cb\u003ePart 7: Applied Research\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Nurse PI on a Clinical Trial - Kathleen Dracup\u003cbr\u003e The Need for Nurse Evaluators - Teresa Moreno-Casbas\u003cbr\u003e Research and Nursing-Home Reform - Charlene Harrington\u003cbr\u003e How Nurses Make It Work - Kathryn Lothschuetz Montgomery\u003cbr\u003e Teamwork through Research - Lena Sharp\u003cbr\u003e Keep Asking Questions - Sean Clarke\u003cbr\u003e No More Martyrs - fane Lipscomb\u003cbr\u003e Taking On Conventional Wisdom - Thóra B. Hafsteinsdóttir\u003cb\u003ePart 8: Sticking Together\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Winning Recognition of Nursing Expertise - Edie Brous\u003cbr\u003e A Union Just for Nurses - Massimo Ribetto\u003cbr\u003e We Rained on Their Parade - Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez\u003cbr\u003e Protesting on the Red Carpet - Kelly DiGiacomo\u003cbr\u003e Saving the Carney - Penny Connolly\u003cb\u003ePart 9: Still Fighting\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Male Midwife - Gregg Trueman\u003cbr\u003e Fighting for Our Vets - Edmond O'Leary\u003cbr\u003e We Are the Experts - Karen Higgins\u003cbr\u003e A Collective Voice - Diane Sosne\u003cbr\u003e We Will Not Be Silenced - Carol Youngson\u003cbr\u003e Standing By One Patient - Faith Simon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"ILR Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52542049386776,"sku":"9780801477508","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/when-chicken-soup-isnt-enough-stories-of-nurses-standing-up-for-themselves-their-patients-and-their-profession-paperback-softback-9780801477508","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}