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For millions of people worldwide, nurses are the difference between life and death, self-sufficiency and dependency, hope and despair. But a lack of understanding of what nurses really do -- one perpetuated by popular media's portrayal of nurses as simplistic archetypes -- has devalued the profession and contributed to a global shortage that constitutes a public health crisis. Today, the thin ranks of the nursing workforce contribute to countless preventable deaths.This fully updated and expanded edition of __Saving Lives__ highlights the essential roles nurses play in contemporary health care and how this role is marginalized by contemporary culture. Through engaging prose and examples drawn from television, advertising, and news coverage, the authors detail the media's role in reinforcing stereotypes that fuel the nursing shortage and devalue a highly educated sector of the contemporary workforce. Perhaps most important, the authors provide a wealth of ideas to help reinvigorate the nursing field and correct this imbalance. As American health care undergoes its greatest overhaul in decades, the practical role of nurses -- that as autonomous, highly skilled practitioners -- has ne

Who reads Saving Lives : Why the Media's Portrayal of Nursing Puts Us All at Risk?

Author

Sandy Summers, Harry Jacobs Summers

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781607146148

Category

health

Subjects

Medical, Science, Nursing

Rating

4.5 / 5 (27 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14