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Saving lives : why the media's portrayal of nursing puts us all at risk
\"For millions of people worldwide, nurses are the difference between life and death, self-sufficiency and dependency, hope and despair. But a lack of understanding of what nurses really do -- one perpetuated by popular media's portrayal of nurses as simplistic archetypes -- has devalued the profession and contributed to a global shortage that constitutes a public health crisis. Today, the thin ranks of the nursing workforce contribute to countless preventable deaths. This fully updated and expanded edition of Saving Lives highlights the essential roles nurses play in contemporary health care and how this role is marginalized by contemporary culture. Through engaging prose and examples drawn from television, advertising, and news coverage, the authors detail the media's role in reinforcing stereotypes that fuel the nursing shortage and devalue a highly educated sector of the contemporary workforce. Perhaps most important, the authors provide a wealth of ideas to help reinvigorate the nursing field and correct this imbalance. As American health care undergoes its greatest overhaul in decades, the practical role of nurses -- that as autonomous, highly skilled practitioners -- has never been more important. Accordingly, Saving Lives addresses both the sources of, and prescription for, misperceptions surrounding contemporary nursing\"--Provided by publisher.
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When Is a Bad Road Good?
''If the nonnuclear forces of the Alliance become strong enough to defend the front and repel invasion,'' he reasons, ''the Soviet leaders might well react by using their own battlefield nuclear weapons.'' But surely strategy's ''paradoxical logic'' doesn't end there. If the Russians were to use nuclear weapons to blast an opening in NATO's defense barrier, the forces that came storming through that gap would be equally vulnerable to NATO's nuclear defensive fire. A senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank, and the author most recently of ''On the Meaning of Victory,'' Mr. [Edward N. Luttwak], a self-described hawk, traces this paradox through what he identifies as the five levels of strategy. These are: ''the technical interplay of specific weapons and counterweapons . . . the tactical combat of the forces that employ those particular weapons . . . [ the ] operational level [ that ] governs the consequences of what is done and not done tactically . . . [ the ] higher level of theater strategy [ where ] the consequences of single operations are felt in the overall conduct of offense and defense . . . [ and ] the highest level of grand strategy, where all that is military happens within the much broader context of domestic governance, international politics, economic activity, and their ancillaries.'' ''The five levels form a definite hierarchy,'' Mr. Luttwak writes, ''but outcomes are not simply imposed in a one-way transmission from top to bottom because the levels interact with one another in a two-way process. . . . Strategy, then, has two dimensions: the vertical dimension of the different levels that interact with one another; and the horizontal dimension of the dynamic logic that unfolds concurrently within each level.''
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GIVE WAR ITS DUE
Intentionally or not, Mr. [Geoffrey Perret] gives us a Clausewitzian approach to war. The third great military theorist, and the only one who has stood the test of time, Karl von Clausewitz (1780-1831), also a veteran of the Napoleonic Wars, was never popular in America. Among other things, he refuted the comfortable [Upton] illusion that war was someone else's fault. Clausewitz emphasized that blaming the military for war was absurd. War is a political act, he said, with politics defined as ''the intercourse of peoples and their government.'' (''When people ask me why I went to Vietnam,'' one American colonel once remarked, ''I say I thought you knew. You sent me.'') The beauty of ''A Country Made by War'' is that Mr. Perret places America's conflicts precisely in the context of ''the intercourse of peoples and their government.'' But the book is by no means a dry scholarly text written in academese in which, in John Kenneth Galbraith's words, ''obscurity is next to divinity.'' Blessed with a particularly lucid writing style, Mr. Perret accomplishes the difficult task of writing a readable and entertaining book that does not sacrifice historical accuracy.
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