When chicken soup isn't enough : stories of nurses standing up for themselves, their patients, and their profession / edited by Suzanne Gordon.

Includes bibliographies and index.

part 1. Set up to lose, but playing to win -- A covert operation / Kathleen Bartholomew -- Saving patients from Dr. Death / Toni Hoffman -- A lesson for the principal / Kathy Hubka -- The delicate discharge / Ruth Johnson -- No patience for poison / Brenda Carle -- Mr. CEO, will you marry me? / Candice Owley -- Intolerable behavior / Eleanor Geldard -- One is one too many / Thomas Smith -- A comfortable cover up / Jenny Kendall -- Stacking the cards in our favor / Ro Licata.

part 2. We don't have to eat our young -- Mentor unto others ... / Clola Robinson-Blake -- A dose of diplomacy / Donna Schroeder -- Standing up for what you don't know / Judy Schaefer -- Broken bones and ice cream / Edie Brous -- Treating transition shock / Judy Boychuk Duchscher -- The empty-hands round / Amaia Sáenz de Ormijana.

part 3. Excuse me, Doctor, you're wrong -- Eye/I advocacy / Jane Black -- As if the patient can hear you / Clarke Doty -- Don't just add nurses and stir / Janet Rankin -- Gloves off / Nancy Marie Valentine -- The overlooked symptom / Jo Stecher -- Hope in the midst of tragedy / Connie Barden -- The advantages of age / Marion Phipps -- An expiration date for indignancy / Madeline Spiers -- What hospice if for / Jean Chaisson -- A real pain / Paola Scamperle.

part 4. Not part of the job description -- I'll call in sick if I have to / Barbara Egger -- Doing the heavy lifting / Martha Baker -- Attacked by a patient, abandoned by my hospital / Charlene L. Richardson -- The samurai sword / Anne Duffy -- Only when it's safe / Bernie Gerard -- The red shirts are coming / Mary Crabtree Tonges -- Not saints or sisters / Belinda Morieson.

part 5. When one advocate can make a difference -- Putting lymphedema on the map / Saskia R.J. Thiadens -- An inconvenient nurse / Faith Henson -- A safe delivery from domestic abuse / Kristin Stevens -- To do the unthinkable / Barry L. Adams -- The only nurse for miles around / Dagbjört Bjarnadóttir -- More than boo-boos and band-aids / Judy Stewart -- First responders in the AIDS epidemic / Richard S. Ferri.

part 6. Choking on sugar and spice: challenging nurses' public image -- Silenced during the SARS epidemic / Doris Grinspun -- In the halls of academe / Claire M. Fagin -- R-E-S-P-E-C-T / Lisa Fitzpatrick -- Real nurses don't wear wings / Victoria L. Rich -- The lady with a loud voice / Jeanne Bryner -- Taking on the terminator / Vicki Bermudez -- Defending the nursing profession over dinner / Elizabeth Kozub -- Remaking the power nurse / Pierre-André Wagner -- Health policy from nurses' point of view / Yoko Kanamori -- Maybe we should be bragging / Guðrún Aðalsteinsdóttir -- Finessing the Chairman of the Board / Carol Blount -- Called to duty at 30,000 feet / Ann Converso.

part 7. Applied research -- Nurse PI on a clinical trial / Kathleen Dracup -- The need for nurse evaluators / Teresa Moreno-Casbas -- Research and nursing-home reform / Charlene Harrington -- How nurse make it work / Kathryn Lothschuetz Montgomery -- Teamwork through research / Lena Sharp -- Keep asking questions / Sean Clarke -- No more Martys / Jane Lipscomb -- Taking on conventional wisdom / Thóra B. Hafsteinsdóttir.

part 8. Sticking together -- Winning recognition of nursing expertise / Edie Brous -- A union just for nurses / Massimo Ribetto -- We rained on their parade / Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez -- Protesting on the red carpet / Kelly DiGiacomo -- Saving the Carney / Penny Connoly.

part 9. Still fighting -- The male midwife / Gregg Trueman -- Fighting for our Vets / Edmond O'Leary -- We are the experts / Karen Higgins -- A collective voice / Diane Sosne -- We will not be silenced / Carol Youngson -- Standing by one patient / Faith Simon.

This title brings together personal narratives from a wide range of nurses from across the globe. The assembled profiles in professional courage provide new insight into the daily challenges that RNs face in North America and abroad.

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