Never Good Enough: Health Care Workers and the False Promise of Job Training

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Never Good Enough a volume in the series The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work Edited by Suzanne Gordon and Sioban Nelson The Caregiver: A Life with Alzheimer’s By Aaron Alterra Assisted Living for Our Parents: A Son’s Journey By Daniel Jay Baum The Changing Face of Medicine: Women Doctors and the Evolution of Health Care in America By Ann K. Boulis and Jerry A. Jacobs From Silence to Voice: What Nurses Know and Must Communicate to the Public, Second Edition By Bernice Buresh and Suzanne Gordon Differential Diagnoses: A Comparative History of Health Care Problems and Solutions in the United States and France By Paul V. Dutton Nobody’s Home: Candid Reflections of a Nursing Home Aide By Thomas Edward Gass Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines By Suzanne Gordon Nursing against the Odds: How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, and Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses and Patient Care By Suzanne Gordon Safety in Numbers: Nurse-to-Patient Ratios and the Future of Health Care By Suzanne Gordon, John Buchanan, and Tanya Bretherton Nurses on the Move: Migration and the Global Health Care Economy By Mireille Kingma The Complexities of Care: Nursing Reconsidered Edited by Sioban Nelson and Suzanne Gordon Code Green: Money-Driven Hospitals and the Dismantling of Nursing By Dana Beth Weinberg Never Good Enough Health Care Workers and the False Promise of Job Training Ariel Ducey ILR Press an imprint of Cornell University Press Ithaca and London Copyright © 2009 by Cornell University All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. First published 2009 by Cornell University Press First printing, Cornell Paperbacks, 2009 Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ducey, Ariel, 1972– Never good enough : health care workers and the false promise of job training / Ariel Ducey. p. cm.—(The culture and politics of health care work) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8014-4459-3 (cloth : alk. paper)— ISBN 978-0-8014-7504-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Hospitals—Employees—Training of—New York (State)— New York. 2. Health facilities—Employees—Training of— New York (State)—New York. 3. Hospitals—Employees—Labor unions—New York (State)—New York. 4. Health facilities— Employees—Labor unions—New York (State)—New York. I. Title. II. Series. RA971.35.D83 2009 362.11068'3097471—dc22 2008023736 Cornell University Press strives to use environmentally responsible suppliers and materials to the fullest extent possible in the publishing of its books. Such materials include vegetable-based, low-VOC inks and acid-free papers that are recycled, totally chlorine-free, or partly composed of nonwood fibers. For further information, visit our website at www.cornellpress.cornell.edu. Cloth printing 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Paperback printing 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For Ty This page intentionally left blank. ...