Saving Lives
Saving Lives

Author: Sandy Summers

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 457

ISBN-13: 0199337063

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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.

The Nurse in Popular Media
The Nurse in Popular Media

Author: Marcus K. Harmes

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2021-10-18

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1476684189

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The image of the nurse is ubiquitous, both in life and in popular media. One of the earliest instances of nursing and media intersecting is the Edison phonographic recording of Florence Nightingale's voice in 1890. Since then, a parade of nurses, good, bad or otherwise, has appeared on both cinema and television screens. How do we interpret the many different types of nurses--real and fictional, lifelike and distorted, sexual and forbidding--who are so visible in the public consciousness? This book is a comprehensive collection of unique insights from scholars across the Western world. Essays explore a diversity of nursing types that traverse popular characterizations of nurses from various time periods. The shifting roles of nurses are explored across media, including picture postcards, film, television, journalism and the collection and preservation of uniforms and memorabilia.

Skid Road
Skid Road

Author: Josephine Ensign

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2021-08-03

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 142144013X

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Brother's Keeper -- Skid Road -- The Sisters -- Ark of Refuge -- Shacktown -- Threshold -- State of Emergency -- Epilogue.

Contexts of Nursing
Contexts of Nursing

Author: John Daly

Publisher: Elsevier Australia

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 0729539253

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Contexts of Nursing 3e builds on the strengths of previous editions and continues to provide nursing students with comprehensive coverage of core ideas and perspectives underpinning the practice of nursing. the new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated. New material on Cultural Awareness and Contemporary Approaches in Nursing has been introduced to reflect the realities of practice. Nursing themes are discussed and are supported by illustrated examples and evidence. Each chapter focuses on an area of study within the undergraduate nursing program and the new edition continues its dis

Paradoxes in Nurses’ Identity, Culture and Image
Paradoxes in Nurses’ Identity, Culture and Image

Author: Margaret McAllister

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-01-29

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1351033409

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This book examines some of the more disturbing representations of nurses in popular culture, to understand nursing’s complex identities, challenges and future directions. It critically analyses disquieting representations of nurses who don’t care, who kill, who inspire fear or who do not comply with laws and policies. Also addressed are stories about how power is used, as well as supernatural experiences in nursing. Using a series of examples taken from popular culture ranging from film, television and novels to memoirs and true crime podcasts, it interrogates the meaning of the shadow side of nursing and the underlying paradoxes that influence professional identity. Iconic nursing figures are still powerful today. Decades after they were first created, Ratched and Annie Wilkes continue to make readers and viewers shudder at the prospect of ever being ill. Modern storytelling modes are bringing to audiences the grim reality that some nurses are members of the working poor, like Cath Hardacre in Trust Me, and others can be dangerous con artists, like the nurse in Dirty John. This book is important reading for all those interested in understanding the links between nursing’s image and the profession’s potential as an agent for change.

Nursing the Image
Nursing the Image

Author: Julia Hallam

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1134668252

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Ideas of 'nursing' and 'nurses' carry a powerful social charge. The image of the nurse continues to be a symbol of caring and of duty at the same time as it projects a view of femininity, 'stereotypical' in its gender relations. How has this image come to be constructed? An empirical investigation of representations of nursing practices in Britain focusing on publicity and promotional materials and their relationship to popular fictional narratives reveals a strong correlation between what are usually described as discrete forms of signification. Recruitment images, provide an important source of information and inspiration for those considering nurse training. Julia Hallam, draws from a wide range of sources including biographies, marketing and recruitment literature, popular fiction and film to explore this question. In doing so she makes an original contribution to the debates surrounding gender and occupational identity. The book will provide a valuable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students on courses such as the social history of nursing, the understanding of health and illness, women's studies, gender studies and sociology courses.

Professional Values in Nursing
Professional Values in Nursing

Author: Lesley Baillie

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2014-07-23

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1444180614

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This practical guide explores professional values in nursing, helping you to develop safe, compassionate, dignified, person-centred and evidence-based nursing practice. The emphasis of the book is on fundamental values of equality, dignity and caring. The authors discuss holistic nursing care, working in partnership with people and families, working collaboratively with the interprofessional team, vulnerability and safeguarding, challenging poor practice and promoting best practice. Features: Chapters linked to the Professional Values domain in the NMC Standards for pre-registration nursing education Strong evidence base to ensure best practice Accessible style with learning outcomes, practice scenarios, questions and activities Relevant to all fields of nursing, with practice scenarios representing people across the lifespan and with different healthcare needs Professional Values in Nursing is a valuable resource for all nursing students, helping to embed professional values in their everyday practice.

Nursing Against the Odds
Nursing Against the Odds

Author: Suzanne Gordon

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13: 9780801472923

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A leading health care journalist unravels the complexity of the current nursing shortage while offering possible solutions to the resulting health care crisis.

Professional Nursing Concepts
Professional Nursing Concepts

Author: Anita Ward Finkelman

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 539

ISBN-13: 1449646069

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" ... takes a patient-centered, traditional approach to the topic of nursing education and professional development. This dynamic text engages students in recognizing the critical role that nurses play in health care delivery, and focuses on the five core competencies for health professions as determined by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) ..."--Back cover.