Nurses: The Inside Story of the Nursing Profession - Softcover

Gould, Donald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0044405189 ISBN 13: 9780044405184

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, 1989

Synopsis

Nurses are highly trained, hardworking, tough-minded and yet compassionate professionals doing an essential, demanding and undervalued job. In this collection of real life accounts - from student nurse through to Chief Nursing Adviser we share the experiences of a life where the pressures and frustrations drive them almost to tears, and learn of the humour, friendship, triumphs and satisfactions that keep them in the job. The conversations in this book frankly reveal the realities and rewards of the daily service nurses offer to those in their care.
4 out of 10 nurses, male and female, live on the poverty line.
New training programme, Project 2000 more expertise, fewer staff?
British Medical Journal predicts a major crisis in the health service in the 1990s.
Nurses are professionals, angels in aprons are a myth.
Includes interviews with Dame Cicely Saunders (nurse and doctor), Steve Goodwin (NationaJ Nursing Award
winner), and nurses from hospices, midwifery, the Royal Navy, Pentonville Prison and VSO.
'The camaraderie within nursing is second to none.
It s quite phenomenal.
It s one of the most social worlds around.
NURSE ADMINISTRATOR

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0044405189
• ISBN 13: 9780044405184
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 196