By When Chicken Soup Isn’t Enough: Stories of Nurses Standing Up for Themselves, Their Patients, and Their Profession
This book cover is all about subliminal messages. The thermometer in the bowl is a not-too-subtle implication that “Chicken Soup can suck it.” That being said, the soup does look kind of delicious. Makes you wish they had it on the menu at the hospital cafeteria….
“The reassuring bromides of Chicken Soup for the Soul provide little solace for nurses—and the people they serve—in real-life hospitals, nursing homes, schools of nursing and other settings. In the minefield of modern healthcare, there are myriad obstacles to quality patient care—including work overload, inadequate funds for nursing education and research, and poor communication between and within the professions, to name only a few. The seventy RNs whose stories are collected here by award-winning journalist Suzanne Gordon know that effective advocacy isn’t easy. It takes nurses willing to stand up for themselves, their coworkers, their patients and the public.”
