Nurses must go beyond describing nursing in terms of dedication and caring and articulate nurses specialized knowledge and expertisefrom silence to voice helps nurses explain their contributions to patient safety satisfaction and outcomes it shows how nurses can communicate with various publics about important aspects of their work such . The culture and politics of health care work editors suzanne gordon and sioban nelson in 2005 i reviewed nurs ing against the odds an earlier book in the series which pro vided a detailed analysis of the many ways in which cost cutting media stereotypes and medical hubris undermine nurses and patient care from silence to voice. From silence to voice is a second edition of a book in the series on the culture and politics of health care work editors suzanne gordon and sioban nelson in 2005 i reviewed nursing against the odds an earlier book in the series which provided a detailed analysis of the many ways in which cost cutting media stereotypes and medical . From silence to voice what nurses know and must communicate to the public davidson sue b phd rnreviewer clinical nurse specialist september 2001 volume 15 issue 5 p 230. As nurses face the ongoing challenges of an increasing need for their services combined with economic pressures members of the largest profession in health care must become more visible vocal and influential the first communication guidebook designed expressly for nurses from silence to voice helps nurses understand and overcome the self silencing that often leads rns to downplay their