Saving Lives: Why the Media's Portrayal of Nursing Puts Us All at Risk (Updated) by Summers, Sandy
Saving Lives: Why the Media's Portrayal of Nursing Puts Us All at Risk (Updated) by Summers, Sandy

Saving Lives: Why the Media's Portrayal of Nursing Puts Us All at Risk (Updated)

For millions of people worldwide, nurses are the difference between life and death, self-sufficiency and dependency, hope...
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Saving Lives: Why the Media's Portrayal of Nursing Puts Us All at Risk (Updated) by Summers, Sandy

Saving Lives: Why the Media's Portrayal of Nursing Puts Us All at Risk (Updated)

$81.78
Saving Lives: Why the Media's Portrayal of Nursing Puts Us All at Risk (Updated) by Summers, Sandy

Saving Lives: Why the Media's Portrayal of Nursing Puts Us All at Risk (Updated)

$81.78
Author: Sandy Summers
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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For millions of people worldwide, nurses are the difference between life and death, self-sufficiency and dependency, hope and despair. But a lack of understanding of what nurses really do -- one perpetuated by popular media's portrayal of nurses as simplistic archetypes -- has devalued the profession and contributed to a global shortage that constitutes a public health crisis. Today, the thin ranks of the nursing workforce contribute to countless preventable deaths.

This fully updated and expanded edition of Saving Lives highlights the essential roles nurses play in contemporary health care and how this role is marginalized by contemporary culture. Through engaging prose and examples drawn from television, advertising, and news coverage, the authors detail the media's role in reinforcing stereotypes that fuel the nursing shortage and devalue a highly educated sector of the contemporary workforce. Perhaps most important, the authors provide a wealth of ideas to help reinvigorate the nursing field and correct this imbalance.

As American health care undergoes its greatest overhaul in decades, the practical role of nurses -- that as autonomous, highly skilled practitioners -- has never been more important. Accordingly, Saving Lives addresses both the sources of, and prescription for, misperceptions surrounding contemporary nursing.


Author: Sandy Summers, Harry Jacobs Summers
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 10/15/2014
Pages: 456
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780199337064


Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2015 pg. 1184

About the Author

Sandy Summers is the founder and executive director of The Truth About Nursing. She practiced nursing for many years in the emergency departments and intensive care units of major U.S. trauma centers. Ms. Summers has master's degrees in nursing and public health from Johns Hopkins University. A native of Connecticut, she lives with her family in Baltimore.

Harry Summers is the senior advisor of The Truth About Nursing. A lawyer who practices in Washington, DC, his background includes international development work in Cambodia and a Fulbright scholarship in New Zealand. Mr. Summers has degrees from Columbia and Georgetown. A native of Pennsylvania, he lives with his family in Baltimore.

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