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| Introduction | |
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| Dangerous Ignorance: Why Our Understanding of Nursing Matters | |
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| Who Are Nurses and Where Have They Gone? | |
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| A Few Notes on Nursing History . | |
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| The Nursing Shortage | |
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| How Nursing's Image Affects Your Health | |
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| Virtue and Vice: Some Roots of Our Media Stereotypes | |
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| Does What's in Our Brains Matter? How the Media Influences Nursing | |
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| The Great Divide: The Media versus Real Nursing | |
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| Could Monkeys Be Nurses? | |
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| Media Portrayals of Nurses as Serous Professionals | |
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| "Is This All Nurses Do?" Media Contempt for Nursing Skill | |
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| If It's Important Work, Credit Anyone but a Nurse | |
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| Ghosts in the Machine: Nurses Go Missing in the Media | |
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| Can Any Helpful Person or Thing Be a Nurse? | |
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| Yes, Doctor! No, Doctor! | |
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| Are You Sure Nurses Are Autonomous? It Sure Looks Like Physicians Call All the Shots | |
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| Media Portrayals of the Nurse as Autonomous Professional | |
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| "Nurse, Hand Me My Laptop": Media Portrayals of the Nurse as Handmaiden | |
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| The Naughtiest Nurse | |
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| "Penny Shots for Naughty Nurses": Why the Naughty Nurse Matters | |
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| Call Me Magdalene: Is Nursing the World's Oldest Profession? | |
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| Who Wants Yesterday's Girl? | |
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| The Work Feminism Forgot | |
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| The Male Nurse Action Figure: The Media Confronts Men in Nursing | |
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| You Are My Angel What's Wrong, Angle? | |
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| Bless This Angel of Mercy Nurse Collectible Figurine! | |
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| Transcending the Angel: What Can Be Done? | |
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| Winning the Battle-Axe, Losing the War | |
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| Tyrants, Bureaucrats, Monster: Hollywood Celebrates Nursing Authority | |
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| Hovering Like Ghouls: Battle-Axes in Other Media | |
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| Advanced Practice Nurses: Skilled Professionals or Cut-Rate "Physician Extender"? | |
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| Who Are APRNs and How Good Is Their Care? | |
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| "Midiwifs" and minor Ailments: APRNs is Hollywood | |
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| The Doctorate of Splinter Diagnosis: APRNs in the News Media | |
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| Seeking Better Understanding of Nursing and Better Health Care | |
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| How We Can All Improve Understanding of Nursing | |
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| I'm a Citizen of the World. What Can I Do? | |
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| I'm a Member of the Media. What Can I Do? | |
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| I'm a Private Sector Health Care Executive. What Can I Do? | |
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| I'm a Government or Health Policy Maker. What Can I Do? | |
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| I'm a Health Worker but Not a Nurse What Can I Do? | |
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| How Nurses Can Improve Their Own Image | |
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| You Have the Power | |
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| Projecting a Professional Image Every Day | |
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| Educating the Media About Nursing | |
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| Message in a Bottle: Create Your Own Media | |
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| It's Up to Us | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Center for Nursing advocacy | |
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| About the Author | |