Maybe We Should Be Bragging

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction xi
5. Part 1. Set Up to Lose, but Playing to Win
6. A Covert Operation 1
7. Saving Patients from Dr. Death 6
8. A Lesson for the Principal 9
9. The Delicate Discharge 10
10. No Patience for Poison 14
11. Mr. CEO, Will You Marry Me? 16
12. Intolerable Behavior 19
13. One Is One Too Many 21
14. A Comfortable Cover Up 24
15. Stacking the Cards in Our Favor 28
16. Part 2. We Don’t Have to Eat Our Young
17. Mentor Unto Others . . . 31
18. A Dose of Diplomacy 36
19. Standing Up for What You Don’t Know 38
20. Broken Bones and Ice Cream 41
21. Treating Transition Shock 45
22. The Empty-Hands Round 50
23. Part 3. Excuse Me, Doctor, You’re Wrong
24. Eye/I Advocacy 55
25. As If the Patient Can Hear You 59
26. Don’t Just Add Nurses and Stir 61
27. Gloves Off 64
28. The Overlooked Symptom 66
29. Hope in the Midst of Tragedy 68
30. The Advantages of Age 71
31. An Expiration Date for Indignancy 74
32. What Hospice Is For 76
33. A Real Pain 79
34. Part 4. Not Part of the Job Description
35. I’ll Call in Sick If I Have To 81
36. Doing the Heavy Lifting 84
37. Attacked by a Patient, Abandoned by My Hospital 87
38. The Samurai Sword 92
39. Only When It’s Safe 95
40. The Red Shirts Are Coming 97
41. Not Saints or Sisters 99
42. Part 5. When One Advocate Can Make a Difference
43. Putting Lymphedema on the Map 105
44. An Inconvenient Nurse 112
45. A Safe Delivery from Domestic Abuse 115
46. To Do the Unthinkable 118
47. The Only Nurse for Miles Around 121
48. More Than Boo-boos and Band-Aids 125
49. First Responders in the AIDS Epidemic 129
50. Part 6. Choking on Sugar and Spice: Challenging Nurses′ Public Image
51. Silenced during the SARS Epidemic 133
52. In the Halls of Academe 138
53. R-E-S-P-E-C-T 141
54. Real Nurses Don’t Wear Wings 145
55. The Lady with a Loud Voice 149
56. Taking on the Terminator 153
57. Defending the Nursing Profession over Dinner 157
58. Remaking the Power Nurse 159
59. Health Policy from Nurses′ Point of View 162
60. Maybe We Should Be Bragging 166
61. Finessing the Chairman of the Board 169
62. Called to Duty at 30,000 Feet 173
63. Part 7. Applied Research
64. Nurse PI on a Clinical Trial 177
65. The Need for Nurse Evaluators 182
66. Research and Nursing- Home Reform 184
67. How Nurses Make It Work 187
68. Teamwork through Research 191
69. Keep Asking Questions 195
70. No More Martys 199
71. Taking On Conventional Wisdom 202
72. Part 8. Sticking Together
73. Winning Recognition of Nursing Expertise 207
74. A Union Just for Nurses 213
75. We Rained on Their Parade 217
76. Protesting on the Red Carpet 220
77. Saving the Carney 225
78. Part 9. Still Fighting
79. The Male Midwife 227
80. Fighting for Our Vets 233
81. We Are the Experts 235
82. A Collective Voice 238
83. We Will Not Be Silenced 240
84. Standing By One Patient 246