Code Green: Money-Driven Hospitals and the Dismantling of Nursing

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Code Green: Money-Driven Hospitals and the Dismantling of Nursing by Dana Beth Weinberg and Suzanne Gordon; Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003; 240 pages, $25.00 (paperback, 2004, $17.95)

Staff nurses, nurse managers, nursing faculty, and hospital administrators will find this book immensely interesting. As increased financial pressures have caused many health care institutions to restructure during the past 10 years, most nurses and administrators will recognize, and identify with, the experiences summarized in this book.

Dana Weinberg, a sociology researcher, uses the work of well-known nurse researchers Linda Aiken and Julie Sochalski as background …