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

Buresh, Bernice and Suzanne Gordon

ISBN 10: 0801488680 / ISBN 13: 9780801488689

Published by ILR Press, an Imprint of Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 2000

About this Item

About twelve pages in Chapter 7 have some pink highlighting, corner tips of covers rubbed. Foreword by Patricia Benner, RN, Ph.D., FAAN. Afterword by Mary Ellen Jeans, RN, Ph.D. 294 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: From Silence to Voice What Nurses Know and Must Communicate to the Public
• Publisher: ILR Press, an Imprint of Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801488680
• ISBN 13: 9780801488689
• Binding: Soft Cover
• Edition: 5th Printing
• Condition: Good+ to Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science and Environment

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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.

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.