TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ward,Frances
TI  - The door of last resort: memoirs of a nurse practitioner
T2  - Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
SN  - 9780813560540
AV  - RT82.8 .W384 2013 
U1  - 610.7372069092 
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ
PB  - Rutgers University Press
KW  - Ward, Frances,
KW  - Nurse practitioners
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Personal narratives
KW  - Urban health
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Public health
KW  - Medical personnel
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Bread is not sugar -- Health care : perspectives from the street level -- Nurse, are you a doctor? -- Protection of the public or creation of a guild? -- Context, data, and judgment : when is enough, enough? -- Barriers, opportunities, and militancy
N2  - This memoir describes the education of nurse practitioners, their scope of practice, their abilities to prescribe medications and diagnostic tests, and their overall management of patients' acute and chronic illnesses. In doing so, it explores the issues in primary health care delivery to poor, urban populations and investigates the factors affecting health care delivery in the United States that have remained obscure throughout the current national debate
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