Journeying inside operating rooms, on home visits, and to patients' bedsides, an examination of the changing role of the nurse captures the day-to-day drama of three nurses' lives and demonstrates their crucial role in and outside of the hospitals.

Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines

Suzanne Gordon

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Little. Brown and Company

Black Mesa: The Angel of Death

The JOHN DAY COMPANY

Lonely in America

Touchstone

From Silence to Voice helps nurses explain their critical work to the public. This revised and freshly redesigned edition has been updated to address the most urgent issues and controversies in nursing. The second edition includes a new chapter that teaches nurses the pitfalls to avoid―and themes, issues, and evidence to include―when they construct stories about their work. Throughout, the authors include more information for nurse managers that will help them encourage and educate the nurses they supervise to end their silence. The second edition also features a revised chapter on nursing research and interactive exercises that will help nurses, educators, and managers put communication theory into practice.

From Silence to Voice: What Nurses Know And Must Communicate to the Public, Second Edition

Politics & Social Sciences

Bernice Buresh

Social Sciences

Cornell University Press

"A beautiful, profound, and profoundly important book.... Gordon's message is simplicity itself: sick people need skilled, humane, and insightful care that keeps their interests paramount. Registered nurses have historically provided that care, but now their ability to fulfill their crucial role faces the greatest jeopardy in the history of the profession.... Life Support belongs in the august company of Silent Spring, The Other America, The Feminine Mystique, and other pivotal works with the power to shape the nation's consciousness."―Washington Post
"In this enlightening, involving, in-depth book, Gordon interweaves the history and philosophy of nursing with on-the-job observations of three nurses at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital. Gordon lets the nurses speak for themselves, effectively illustrating their commitment to their profession and involving readers in real-life dramas."―Publishers Weekly
"For patients, physicians, nurses, and health policy analysts, Gordon's passionate and accessible account of the impact of managed care on skilled nursing provides clear grounds for concern."―Health Affairs
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.

Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines (The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work)

Sociology

ILR PRESS

Suzanne Gordon's biographies, based on several years of careful research and interviews, bring the lives of her subjects into a focus which has both depth and subtlety. The twenty-three people portrayed here come from backgrounds which reflect the complex social fabric of rural South Africa. Entering domestic work by many different routes they survive and sometimes overcome the limitations of their working lives in ways which reflect a great spectrum of personalities and abilities. For some the 'talent for tomorrow' is a life sacrificed for a coming generation. For others it is the dawn of new opportunities as South Africa's servants begin to organize and bargain fora better deal.

A Talent for Tomorrow: Life Stories of South African Servants

Ravan Press

Analytical skills: How to analyze problems and identify legal issues Research skills: How to find the applicable laws Online research skills: How to search legal databases Case-briefing skills: How to read a court case like a lawyer Skills of legal analysis: How to use the law to solve problems and predict outcomes Appendix Choosing databases on Quicklaw, Westlaw, and LexisThis workbook provides exercises that show students how to read, research, and analyze problems like a lawyer. The exercises focus the student's attention on the skills used to discern relevant information, to identify legal questions, to research effectively, and to resolve legal problems.The purpose of this workbook is to provide students of law with an opportunity to practise and hone their research and analytical skills. Intended as an introduction to legal research methodology, the workbook attempts to use plain language to introduce legal terminology and concepts. It offers an overview of the various methods of solving legal problems, the research sources available, and how to use research effectively.The idea of using a workbook to teach legal research and writing is inspired by the questions and interests of students and instructors in the Legal Research and Writing Program at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. We wanted to provide more opportunity for students to practise and develop their skills. The workbook begins at a basic level and gradually introduces students to the more difficult task of using the law to solve problems and answer questions. Our objective is to allow students to develop and hone a reliable methodology to use when tackling legal problems.

The Law Workbook: Developing Skills for Legal Research and Writing

Sherifa Elkhadem

Edmond Montgomery Publications

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