The Door of Last Resort : Memoirs of a Nurse Practitioner /

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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,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ward, Frances, 1950-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Ward, Frances, > 1950-
Urban health.
Public health.
Nurse practitioners.
MEDICAL > History.
MEDICAL > Allied Health Services > Medical Assistants.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Medical.
Personnel medical > Aspect social.
Sante publique > Études de cas.
Sante urbaine > Études de cas.
Infirmieres cliniciennes > États-Unis > Recits personnels.
Infirmieres cliniciennes > États-Unis > Biographies.
Nurse Practitioners > United States > Autobiography.
Medical personnel > Social aspects.
Public health > Case studies.
Urban health > Case studies.
Nurse practitioners > United States > Personal narratives.
Nurse practitioners > United States > Biography.
United States.
Autobiographies.
Personal narratives.
Biographies.
Case studies.
Autobiography
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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