Books of Interest
From Silence to Voice: What Nurses Know and Must Communicate to the Public
Authors: Bernice Buresh, Suzanne Gordon, Mary Ellen Jeans
Publisher: Ilr Pr; Reissue edition (May 2003)
Book Description from Amazon.com: As nurses face
the ongoing challenges of an increasing need for their services
combined with economic pressures, members of the largest profession
in health care must become more visible, vocal, and influential.
The first communication guidebook designed expressly for nurses,
From Silence to Voice helps nurses understand and overcome the
self-silencing that often leads RNs to downplay their own expertise
and their contributions to the care of the sick and the health
of the public. Bernice Buresh and Suzanne Gordon teach nurses,
nurse educators, and nurse researchers critical skills they can
use to explain their work to other health-care professionals,
journalists, policymakers, and political representatives.
From Silence to Voice features stories about nurses who ensure
that patients receive appropriate, timely, and even life-saving
care, nurses who make all the difference while crises are underway
but whose contributions are neglected in medical charts and thank-you
notes, nurses who are left out altogether or obscured by the generic
"nurse." However, the book also provides detailed accounts
of nurses who do make their voices heard, who do make their concerns
public— and it shows how those successes can be duplicated.
Buresh and Gordon draw on real-world examples that will help nurses
to
- gain respect for themselves as professionals,
- communicate well with both patients and health-care colleagues,
- understand how the news media work,
- collaborate with public relations professionals,
- write effective letters to the editor and publish op-ed pieces,
- appear on television and radio, and
- promote research on nursing.
Policy and Politics in Nursing and Health Care
Authors: Diana J. Mason, Mary W. Chaffee, Judith Kline Leavitt
Publisher: W B Saunders; 4th edition (July 15, 2002)
Book Review from Book News Inc: Seeking a greater
role for nursing in defining American healthcare institutions
and policies, editors Mason (Editor-in-Chief, American Journal
of Nursing), Leavitt (School of Nursing, U. of Mississippi Medical
Center), and Chaffee (Deputy Director of Navy Medicine, Office
of Homeland Security) present 34 chapters and a number of case
studies and illustrative vignettes. After exploring the basics
of affecting policy in the United States and the structures and
economics of American healthcare, four sections explore how to
influence policy change in the workplace, government, professional
organizations, and the community.Book News, Inc.®, Portland,
OR
