From Silence to Voice: What Nurses Know and Must Communicate to the Public - Softcover

Buresh, Bernice; Gordon, Suzanne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801488680 ISBN 13: 9780801488689

Publisher: ILR Press, 2000

Synopsis

As nurses face the ongoing challenges of an increasing need for their services combined with economic pressures, members of the largest profession in health care must become more visible, vocal, and influential. The first communication guidebook designed expressly for nurses, From Silence to Voice helps nurses understand and overcome the self-silencing that often leads RNs to downplay their own expertise and their contributions to the care of the sick and the health of the public. Bernice Buresh and Suzanne Gordon teach nurses, nurse educators, and nurse researchers critical skills they can use to explain their work to other health-care professionals, journalists, policymakers, and political representatives. From Silence to Voice features stories about nurses who ensure that patients receive appropriate, timely, and even life-saving care, nurses who make all the difference while crises are underway but whose contributions are neglected in medical charts and thank-you notes, nurses who are left out altogether or obscured by the generic "nurse." However, the book also provides detailed accounts of nurses who do make their voices heard, who do make their concerns public- and it shows how those successes can be duplicated. Buresh and Gordon draw on real-world examples that will help nurses to gain respect for themselves as professionals, communicate well with both patients and health-care colleagues, understand how the news media work, collaborate with public relations professionals, write effective letters to the editor and publish op-ed pieces, appear on television and radio, and promote research on nursing.

About this title

From the Publisher

Thousands of nurses in the United States and Canada have read Gordon's and Buresh's work on nursing and public communication or have attended their personal appearances and workshops. Now the results of a decade of their work is available in From Silence to Voice.

From the Inside Flap

"This is a unique book-one that every practicing nurse willl want to read now and every person aspiring to become a nurse MUST read to understand nursing. These well-known journalists share their deep, rich experience about how the world of media, public influence and debate really works. But most of all, this is a book of ideas; refreshingly fresh ideas which I guarantee you will read from front to back. From Silence to Voice makes you take a long, hard look at our wonderful profession and offers some potent suggestions for our future." Joan E. Lynaugh, RN,PhD,FAAN, Professor Emeritus and Term Chair, History of Nursing and Health Care, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

Edition details

• Publisher: ILR Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801488680
• ISBN 13: 9780801488689
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 294