Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1 SET UP TO LOSE, BUT PLAYING TO WIN -- A Covert Operation -- Saving Patients from Dr. Death -- A Lesson for the Principal -- The Delicate Discharge -- No Patience for Poison -- Mr. CEO, Will You Marry Me? -- Intolerable Behavior -- One Is One Too Many -- A Comfortable Cover Up -- Stacking the Cards in Our Favor -- Part 2 WE DON'T HAVE TO EAT OUR YOUNG -- Mentor Unto Others . . . -- A Dose of Diplomacy -- Standing Up for What You Don't Know -- Broken Bones and Ice Cream -- Treating Transition Shock -- The Empty-Hands Round -- Part 3 EXCUSE ME, DOCTOR, YOU'RE WRONG -- Eye/I Advocacy -- As If the Patient Can Hear You -- Don't Just Add Nurses and Stir -- Gloves Off -- The Overlooked Symptom -- Hope in the Midst of Tragedy -- The Advantages of Age -- An Expiration Date for Indignancy -- What Hospice Is For -- A Real Pain -- Part 4 NOT PART OF THE JOB DESCRIPTION -- I'll Call in Sick If I Have To -- Doing the Heavy Lifting -- Attacked by a Patient, Abandoned by My Hospital -- The Samurai Sword -- Only When It's Safe -- The Red Shirts Are Coming -- Not Saints or Sisters -- Part 5 WHEN ONE ADVOCATE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE -- Putting Lymphedema on the Map -- An Inconvenient Nurse -- A Safe Delivery from Domestic Abuse -- To Do the Unthinkable -- The Only Nurse for Miles Around -- More Than Boo- boos and Band- Aids -- First Responders in the AIDS Epidemic -- Part 6 CHOKING ON SUGAR AND SPICE -- Silenced during the SARS Epidemic -- In the Halls of Academe -- R-E-S-P-E-C-T -- Real Nurses Don't Wear Wings -- The Lady with a Loud Voice -- Taking on the Terminator -- Defending the Nursing Profession over Dinner -- Remaking the Power Nurse -- Health Policy from Nurses' Point of View -- Maybe We Should Be Bragging -- Finessing the Chairman of the Board -- Called to Duty at 30,000 Feet -- Part 7 APPLIED RESEARCH.

Nurse PI on a Clinical Trial -- The Need for Nurse Evaluators -- Research and Nursing-Home Reform -- How Nurses Make It Work -- Teamwork through Research -- Keep Asking Questions -- No More Martys -- Taking On Conventional Wisdom -- Part 8 STICKING TOGETHER -- Winning Recognition of Nursing Expertise -- A Union Just for Nurses -- We Rained on Their Parade -- Protesting on the Red Carpet -- Saving the Carney -- Part 9 STILL FIGHTING -- The Male Midwife -- Fighting for Our Vets -- We Are the Experts -- A Collective Voice -- We Will Not Be Silenced -- Standing By One Patient.