Saving lives : why the media's portrayal of nursing puts us all at risk / Sandy Summers, Harry Jacob...
Saving lives : why the media's portrayal of nursing puts us all at risk / Sandy Summers, Harry Jacob...
Saving lives : why the media's portrayal of nursing puts us all at risk / Sandy Summers, Harry Jacobs Summers.
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Publisher
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
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G 2015/88
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Language
English
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Physical content
xxxi, 419 pages ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Machine generated contents note: -- Foreword by Echo Heron -- Introduction -- Part One: Dangerous Ignorance: Why Our Understanding of Nursing Matters -- Chapter 1: Who are Nurses and Where Have They Gone? -- Chapter 2: How Nursing's Image Affects Your Health -- Part Two: The Great Divide: The Media...
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Publisher
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Edition
Updated second edition.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
[2015]
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Summary
"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 const...
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Saving lives : why the media's portrayal of nursing puts us all at risk / Sandy Summers, Harry Jacobs Summers.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2015/88
Record Identifier
74VKJ0Wyrz83
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKJ0Wyrz83
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ISBN
0199337063 (paperback : alk. paper)
9780199337064 (paperback : alk. paper)
DDC
610.73
MMS ID
991022310779702626
