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More than medicine : nurse practitioners and the problems they solve for patients, health care organizations, and the state /

Trotter, LaTonya J.,

More than medicine : nurse practitioners and the problems they solve for patients, health care organizations, and the state / LaTonya J. Trotter. - 1 online resource (xvii, 191 pages) - The culture and politics of health care work . - Culture and politics of health care work. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A word about methods -- Nursing's expertise -- From medical work to clinic work -- Organizational care work -- New boundaries, new relationships -- Gaining status, losing ground -- The contraction of social work -- The misrecognition of social problems.

"Shows how a group of nurse practitioners expand the medical encounter to include a mix of health, social, and coordination problems--illustrating the ways in which these providers are not just filling-in for absent physicians, but are filling in for the absence of the state in attending to the problems of poverty and unequal access to health care"--

9781501748165 1501748173 9781501748172 1501748165

22573/ctvq12t5v JSTOR

2019026555


Nurse practitioners--United States.
Geriatric nursing--Social aspects--United States.
Senior centers--United States.
Older African Americans--Care.
Older African Americans--Services for.
Nurse practitioners.
African Americans.

RT82.8 / .T76 2020

610.7306/920973

WY 128
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