Saving lives
Subtitle: why the media's portrayal of nurses puts us all at risk
By: Sandy Summers and Harry Jacobs Summers
Contributors: Summers, Harry
Publisher: Kaplan Pub.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9781607146605
Subjects: Nurses in mass media; Nursing; Public opinion; Standards; Nurses; Press coverage; Mass Media; Public Opinion
Description: Examines the portrayal of nurses in the mass media, and the misconceptions that it fosters in the way that they are perceived by patients in comparison to the vital role that they actually play in saving lives.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-341) and index.
Table of contents: title: Who are nurses and where have they gone?; title: How nursing's image affects your health; title: Could monkeys be nurses?; title: Yes, doctor! no, doctor!; title: The naughtiest nurse; title: Who wants yesterday's girl?; title: You are my angel; title: Winning the battle-axe, losing the war; title: Advanced practice nurses : skilled professionals or cut-rate "physician extenders"?; title: How we can all improve understanding of nursing; title: How nurses can improve their own image.