Just a Nurse - Softcover

Kraegel, Janet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0440207630 ISBN 13: 9780440207634

Publisher: Dell, 1990

Synopsis

Non-Fiction, Medical Studies

About this title

From Library Journal:

The notion that nursing is a low rung in the medical profession's ladder is sensitively explored and dispelled by this contemporary collection of interviews. Whereas physicians provide medical treatment, nurses provide medical care. The inability to ensure proper care through effective coordination of treatment and medical services causes burnout for some and fuels activism in others. Interviews are varied: Hospital, hospice, prison, and army nurses, nursing entrepreneurs, rolfers, midwives, and dropouts offer their experiences. This book complements Making Choices, Taking Chances: Nurse Leaders Tell Their Stories , edited by Thelma Schorr and Anne Zimmerman (Mosby, 1988).
- Mary Hemmings, Health Science Lib., McGill Univ., Montreal
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From School Library Journal:

YA-- Students considering medical careers will be interested in the personal accounts of 46 nurses who care for patients in different sites, including the military, prison, psychiatric wards, and hospices. Although the male and female nurses frankly discuss the very real problems of low pay, understaffing, and burnout, they also emphasize that it is nurses, not doctors, who are trained to provide total patient care and even act as patient advocates. Besides providing a look at many facets of the profession, Kraegel raises the issue of reduced health services due to the nursing shortage.
- Alice Conlon, University of Houston
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dell
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0440207630
• ISBN 13: 9780440207634
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336