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Livre 12 sur 52: The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work

Weinberg, Dana Beth

 
9780801489198: Code Green: Money-Driven Hospitals and the Dismantling of Nursing
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ISBN 10 : 0801489199 ISBN 13 : 9780801489198
Editeur : ILR Press, 2004

Synopsis

We are on the verge of the nation's worst nursing shortage in history. Dedicated nurses are leaving hospitals in droves, and there are not enough new recruits to the profession to meet demand. Even hospitals that were once very highly regarded for the quality of their nursing care, such as Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, now struggle to fill vacant positions. What happened? Dana Beth Weinberg argues that hospital restructuring in the 1990s is to blame.

In their attempts to retain profit margins or even just to stay afloat, hospitals adopted a common set of practices to cut costs and increase revenues. Many strategies squeezed greater productivity out of nurses and other hospital workers. Nurses' workloads increased to the point that even the most skilled nurses questioned whether they could provide minimal, safe care to patients. As hospitals hemorrhaged money, it seemed that no one--not hospital administrators, not doctors--felt they could afford to listen to nurses.

Through a careful look at the effects of the restructuring strategies chosen and implemented by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the author examines management's efforts to balance service and survival. By showing the effects of hospital restructuring on nurses' ability to plan, evaluate, and deliver excellent care, Weinberg provides a stinging indictment of standard industry practices that underestimate the contribution nurses make both to hospitals and to patient care.

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À propos de l'auteur

Dana Beth Weinberg is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Queens College.

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Éditeur
ILR Press
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0801489199
ISBN 13 
9780801489198
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
240
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