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Saving lives : why the media's portrayal of nursing puts us all at risk /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Summers, Sandy (Author), Summers, Harry (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Edition:Updated second edition.
Subjects:
Nurses.
Nurses in mass media.
Nursing > Standards.
Mass media.
Public relations.
Nurses
Public Relations
Infirmières.
Infirmières dans les médias.
Soins infirmiers > Normes.
Médias.
Relations publiques.
nurses.
mass media.
public relations.
Mass media
Nurses in mass media
Nursing > Standards
Public relations
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780190221423
0190221429
0199337071
9780199337071