When Chicken Soup Isn’t Enough

When Chicken Soup Isn’t Enough a volume in the series The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work Edited by Suzanne Gordon and Sioban Nelson A list of titles in this series is available at www.cornellpress.cornell.edu. CHICKEN ENOUGH Stories of Nurses Standing Up for Themselves, Their Patients, and Their Profession EDITED BY SUZANNE GORDON ILR Press an imprint of Cornell University Press ithaca and london Copyright © 2010 by Suzanne Gordon Individual stories copyright © 2010 by their respective authors. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. First published 2010 by Cornell University Press Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data When chicken soup isn’t enough : stories of nurses standing up for themselves, their patients, and their profession / edited by Suzanne Gordon. p. cm.—(The culture and politics of health care work) ISBN 978-0-8014-4894-2 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Nursing. 2. Nursing—Social aspects. 3. Communication in nursing. 4. Patient advocacy. I. Gordon, Suzanne, 1945– II. Title. III. Series: Culture and politics of health care work. RT82.W44 2010 610.73–dc22. 2009051881 Cornell University Press strives to use environmentally re-sponsible suppliers and materials to the fullest extent pos-sible in the publishing of its books. Such materials include vegetable-based, low-VOC inks and acid-free papers that are recycled, totally chlorine-free, or partly composed of nonwood fibers. For further information, visit our website at www.cornellpress.cornell.edu. Cloth printing 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi Part 1 Set Up to Lose, but Playing to Win 1 A Covert Operation · Kathleen Bartholomew 3 Saving Patients from Dr. Death · Toni Hoffman 6 A Lesson for the Principal · Kathy Hubka 9 The Delicate Discharge · Ruth Johnson 10 No Patience for Poison · Brenda Carle 14 Mr. CEO, Will You Marry Me? · Candice Owley 16 Intolerable Behavior · Eleanor Geldard 19 One Is One Too Many · Thomas Smith 21 A Comfortable Cover Up · Jenny Kendall 24 Stacking the Cards in Our Favor · Ro Licata 28 Part 2 We Don’t Have to Eat Our Young 31 Mentor Unto Others . . . · Clola Robinson- Blake 33 A Dose of Diplomacy · Donna Schroeder 36 Standing Up for What You Don’t Know · Judy Schaefer 38 Broken Bones and Ice Cream · Edie Brous 41 Treating Transition Shock · Judy Boychuk Duchscher 45 The Empty-Hands Round · Amaia Sáenz de Ormijana 50 v ... - tailieumienphi.vn