IntroductionPart 1: Set Up to Lose, but Playing to Win
A Covert Operation - Kathleen Bartholomew
Saving Patients from Dr. Death - Toni Hoffman
A Lesson for the Principal - Kathy Hubka
The Delicate Discharge - Ruth Johnson
No Patience for Poison - Brenda Carle
Mr. CEO, Will You Marry Me? - Candice Owley
Intolerable Behavior - Eleanor Geldard
One Is One Too Many - Thomas Smith
A Comfortable Cover Up - Jenny Kendall
Stacking the Cards in Our Favor - Ro LicataPart 2: We Don't Have to Eat Our Young
Mentor Unto Others...- Clola Robinson-Blake
A Dose of Diplomacy - Donna Schroeder
Standing Up for What You Don't Know - Judy Schaefer
Broken Bones and Ice Cream - Edie Brous
Treating Transition Shock - Judy Boychuk Duchscher
The Empty-Hands Round - Amaia Sáenz de OrmijanaPart 3: Excuse Me, Doctor, You're Wrong
Eye/I Advocacy - Jane Black
As If the Patient Can Hear You - Clarke Doty
Don't Just Add Nurses and Stir - Janet Rankin
Gloves Off - Nancy Marie Valentine
The Overlooked Symptom - Jo Stecher
Hope in the Midst of Tragedy - Connie Barden
The Advantages of Age - Marion Phipps
An Expiration Date for Indignancy - Madeline Spiers
What Hospice Is For - Jean Chaisson
A Real Pain - Paola ScamperlePart 4: Not Part of the Job Description
I'll Call in Sick If I Have To - Barbara Egger
Doing the Heavy Lifting - Martha Baker
Attacked by a Patient, Abandoned by My Hospital - Charlene L. Richardson
The Samurai Sword - Anne Duffy
Only When It's Safe - Bernie Gerard
The Red Shirts Are Coming - Mary Crabtree Tonges
Not Saints or Sisters - Belinda MoriesonPart 5 When One Advocate Can Make a Difference
Putting Lymphedema on the Map - Saskia R. J. Thiadens
An Inconvenient Nurse - Faith Henson
A Safe Delivery from Domestic Abuse - Kristin Stevens
To Do the Unthinkable - Barry L. Adams
The Only Nurse for Miles Around - Dagbjört Bjarnadóttir
More Than Boo-boos and Band-Aids - Judy Stewart
First Responders in the AIDS Epidemic - Richard S. FerriPart 6: Choking on Sugar and Spice: Challenging Nurses' Public Image
Silenced during the SARS Epidemic - Doris Grinspun
In the Halls of Academe - Claire M. Fagin
R-E-S-P-E-C-T - Lisa Fitzpatrick
Real Nurses Don't Wear Wings - Victoria L. Rich
The Lady with a Loud Voice - Jeanne Byner
Taking on the Terminator - Vicki Bermudez
Defending the Nursing Profession over Dinner - Elizabeth Kozub
Remaking the Power Nurse - Pierre-Andre Wagner
Health Policy from Nurses' Point of View - Yuko Kanamori
Maybe We Should Be Bragging - Guðrún Aðalsteinsdóttir
Finessing the Chairman of the Board - Carol Blount
Called to Duty at 30,000 Feet - Ann ConversoPart 7: Applied Research
Nurse PI on a Clinical Trial - Kathleen Dracup
The Need for Nurse Evaluators - Teresa Moreno-Casbas
Research and Nursing-Home Reform - Charlene Harrington
How Nurses Make It Work - Kathryn Lothschuetz Montgomery
Teamwork through Research - Lena Sharp
Keep Asking Questions - Sean Clarke
No More Martyrs - fane Lipscomb
Taking On Conventional Wisdom - Thóra B. HafsteinsdóttirPart 8: Sticking Together
Winning Recognition of Nursing Expertise - Edie Brous
A Union Just for Nurses - Massimo Ribetto
We Rained on Their Parade - Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez
Protesting on the Red Carpet - Kelly DiGiacomo
Saving the Carney - Penny ConnollyPart 9: Still Fighting
The Male Midwife - Gregg Trueman
Fighting for Our Vets - Edmond O'Leary
We Are the Experts - Karen Higgins
A Collective Voice - Diane Sosne
We Will Not Be Silenced - Carol Youngson
Standing By One Patient - Faith Simon