The door of last resort : memoirs of a nurse practitioner.

By:

Ward, Frances, 1950- [author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780813560540
0813560543

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

610.7372069092

LOC classification:

RT82.8 .W384 2013

NLM classification:

WZ 100

Online resources:

EBSCOhost (requires login)

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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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Item type	Current library	URL	Status
Computer Files - cmm	TNU, Faculty of Nursing and Health Science Internet	Link to resource	Available

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.