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"Nursing Against the Odds"

This important work has received a great deal of media attention.  For a sample of media coverage, check out the following reviews!

Nursing Against the Odds in the New England Journal of Medicine:

"Nursing against the Odds makes abundantly clear some of the important problems of the work and work environment of registered nurses and other nursing staff in acute care hospitals. Nursing against the Odds makes abundantly clear some of the important problems of the work and work environment of registered nurses and other nursing staff in acute care hospitals..". (more)

In the New York Times: (article reposted here by the International Herald Tribune)

"Exhausted by heavy work, mandatory overtime and the stress of looking after hospital patients who are sicker, frailer and in need of ever more high-tech intervention, nurses are leaving the bedside faster than they can be replaced..." (more)

Suzanne Gordon Interview on AARP Radio (Real Media file type)

In the Journal of the American Medical Association:

"Suzanne Gordon, an award-winning journalist and frequent contributor to the Boston Globe, New York Times, and Washington Post, has written a wide-ranging and sometimes exasperating but ultimately worthwhile book about the current state of nursing and health care..." (more)

At nursingadvocacy.org:

"Suzanne Gordon's Nursing Against the Odds is a searing indictment of the denursification of developed world health care and the associated nursing shortage..." (more)

At CounterPunch.org (David Swanson Review):

"Gordon's book is a masterful depiction and analysis of a career we generally fail to understand, and with which health care corporations have clearly failed to come to terms..." (more)