Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines

✍ Scribed by Suzanne Gordon; Claire M. Fagin

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 365
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword to the Cornell Edition
Preface
Chapter 1. The Tapestry of Care
Chapter 2. The Care of Strangers
Chapter 3. Not on the Charts
Chapter 4. A Special Visitor
Chapter 5. The Meaning of Illness
Chapter 6. A Mentor of Their Own
Chapter 7. Collaborative Care
Chapter 8. A Good Enough Death
Chapter 9. Final Checkups
Chapter 10. A Good Enough Death II
Chapter 11. Unraveling the Tapestry of Care
Conclusion: Preserving the Tapestry of Care
Afterword to the Cornell Edition
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index