The door of last resort : memoirs of a nurse practitioner

Ward, Frances 1950- (Author).

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 national debates on access to care.

Record details

ISBN: 1299192483
ISBN: 9781299192485
ISBN: 9780813560533
ISBN: 0813560535
ISBN: 0813560543
ISBN: 9780813560540
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 200 pages)
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Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2013]
Copyright: ©2013

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Language Note:	English.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.