Code Green: Money-Driven Hospitals and the Dismantling of Nursing (The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work)

This is a powerful book that explains in painful, but real detail why nursing has evolved to it's present state. It was comforting to learn that all of the things I grew to feel during my almost 50 years has been experienced by others, too. It fortifies my belief that nursing management - who is supposed to be for you and your peers - has bought into the management theories that dismantle nursing and a nurses psyche. As political as Florence Nightengale was I'm sure that she would have difficulty understanding and supporting today's money managed care. As with many advances in this world, the patients are paying heavily for these moves. I often wonder where nursing will be going in the next 50 years. I'm waiting for someone who truly cares about patients to come in and evict the "money hangers from the temple" and again support nurses and their decisions. The fight is for the young and strong. Management doesn't care if patients get good nursing care. They only want patients that are satisfied and do not complain!

Interesting and informative book. Also an easy read. I'd definitely recommend this to anyone who is interested in administrative nursing.

I read this book as a requirement for a class. As I got deeper into the book, I realized how absolutely true the findings were. I work for a large facility in the northeast and find that many of the situations mentioned in this book correspond. As reimbursement continues to dictate the level and amount of service patients receive the more and more it makes sense for a governing body to intervene, or at least more closely oversee.Overall, great book. Code Green: Money-Driven Hospitals and the Dismantling of Nursing (Culture and Politics of Health Care Work) Connecticut

I make my senior nursing students read this. Very powerful!

DID NOT NEED TO ORDER THIS FOR SCHOOL BUT THEY MADE ME THE BOOK WAS GOOD

While this book provides some good points and interesting insights on the topic of healthcare as a business and nursing's role within it, it could have made it's points in about 1/8 of the pages. Instead the author simply repeats each point over and over and over again in just the ever most slightest different way in each and every chapter. Turning what could have been a very compelling read into monotonous torture.

As always, I got the book at the expected date Amazon is great for that.

Depressive, but good to get a check up of your moral code and get a feel for real world disasters.Kind of crazy this was reality. Some people just don't make much sense I guess, but at the same time I don't see what happened in this book as a complete crime given the circumstances.

Well worth a read to see how easily decades of hard won gains in the status and practice of nursing can be overturned.

It is very much similar to the Canadian hospital reality. Health in our days is not about people and their lives, but more of a business.