×


 x 

Shopping cart
Dana Beth Weinberg - Code Green - 9780801489198 - V9780801489198
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.

Code Green

€ 21.99
€ 21.87
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Code Green Paperback. Series: The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1, tables. BIC Classification: MBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 308.

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 ... Read more

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.

Show Less

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780801489198
SKU
V9780801489198
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Dana Beth Weinberg
Dana Beth Weinberg is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Queens College. Suzanne Gordon is an award-winning journalist, author of Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines, and coauthor of From Silence to Voice, also from Cornell.

Reviews for Code Green
Beth Israel was an international benchmark hospital which many saw as setting the nursing standards to be achieved elsewhere. This account of its recent history carries important messages about the domination of economics over the need for nursing care, the fragility of even the best nursing leadership during amalgamations, and the ease with which a reputation can be lost.
... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Code Green


Subscribe to our newsletter

News on special offers, signed editions & more!