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Author Ward, Frances, 1950-

Title The door of last resort : memoirs of a nurse practitioner / Frances Ward
Published New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 200 pages)
Series Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
Critical issues in health and medicine.
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 national debates on access to care
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Ward, Frances, 1950-
SUBJECT Ward, Frances, 1950-
Ward, Frances, 1950- fast
Subject Nurse practitioners -- United States -- Biography
Nurse practitioners -- United States -- Personal narratives
Urban health -- Case studies
Public health -- Case studies
Medical personnel -- Social aspects
Nurse Practitioners -- United States -- Autobiography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Medical.
MEDICAL -- Allied Health Services -- Medical Assistants.
MEDICAL -- History.
Nurse practitioners
Public health
Urban health
United States
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Case studies
Biographies
Personal narratives
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012023498
ISBN 9780813560540
0813560543