- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Kaplan Trade; 1 edition (5 July 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1607146606
- ISBN-13: 978-1607146605
- Product Dimensions: 22.7 x 16.7 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,176,695 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Examines the impact the entertainment industry's portrayal of nurses is having on the industry in the way nurses are perceived by patients in comparison to the real work they do, the misperceptions that exist, and the important role they play in the field.
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I am dismayed by the media portrayal of nurses as sex crazed bimbos and halfwits. I chose to become a nurse, but it's always been hard to live with that image. It's degrading and all the work to build an educated and knowledgeable graduate workforce can be set aside because we're mostly female and low paid. Nursing professional organisations haven't been much use. But this book does at least show the image of nursing in the media for what it is.
The book is welcome and may even make some screenwriters think about their careless dismissal of a key healthcare profession. Nurses have already been replaced by lookalikes recruited off the street and given superficial training in the hope that the public won't realise the difference. The effects on care are well described. This will affect us all as patients.
Respect has to be earned the hard way, but it's too easy to lose when your work is portrayed like this for a cheap laugh and soap opera values. I'm glad somebody said it and the popular format is appropriate.
The book is welcome and may even make some screenwriters think about their careless dismissal of a key healthcare profession. Nurses have already been replaced by lookalikes recruited off the street and given superficial training in the hope that the public won't realise the difference. The effects on care are well described. This will affect us all as patients.
Respect has to be earned the hard way, but it's too easy to lose when your work is portrayed like this for a cheap laugh and soap opera values. I'm glad somebody said it and the popular format is appropriate.
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Saving Lives tells the Truth about Nursing
23 Feb 2009
Format:Hardcover
As the United States braces for an enduring shortage of highly trained registered nurses that may negatively affect the quality of health care in our lifetime, the popular media continues to undermine the reality of nursing's contributions through inaccurate portrayals of the profession. Saving Lives not only tells us the truth about Nursing's impact on health, quality of care and the lives of real people, but it articulately demonstrates why Nursing is consistently ranked by consumers as the most respected profession in the US and remains the resiliant backbone of the health care system. This revealing book is a powerful call to action for all nurses, nursing students, policy makers, media and the general public.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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2 April 2009
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
As a long time nurse, I thought this book sounded interesting. It definitely was. I found their comments about the portrayals of nursing to be all too true and often coincided with many of my and my co-workers comments. Some of our surgeons couldn't pick out their patients in a line up let alone stoop to spending hours of their precious time comforting them and their families or providing actual personal care to them. Anyone who thinks what they see on tv is what nursing really is definitely needs to read this book.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Saving Lives, Changeing the public view of nursing.
27 Mar 2009
Format:Hardcover
First off, the book is well written and interesting to read. In addition it illuminates the inaccurate portrayal of nurses in the public media and how that image is impacting the future of nursing and nurses in real life. Ms. Summers does an exceptional job of presenting the evidence of how the image of the nurse in the media is affecting nurses everywhere. With the worst nursing shortage in history in full swing, it is important that nurses and non-nurses alike be aware of the information in this book.
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