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Dedicated nurses are leaving hospitals in droves, and there are not enough new recruits to the profession to meet demand. Even hospitals that were once very highly regarded for the quality of their nursing care, such as Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, now struggle to fill vacant positions. What happened? By showing the effects of hospital restructuring on nurses' ability to plan, evaluate, and deliver excellent care, Dana Beth Weinberg provides a stinging indictment of standard industry practices that underestimate the contribution nurses make both to hospitals and to patient care. Book jacket.

Dana Beth Weinberg is a Senior Research Associate at the Schneider Institute for Health Policy at the Heller School of Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University