The Door of Last Resort: Memoirs of a Nurse Practitioner

by Frances Ward

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813560540
Publisher:	Rutgers University Press
Publication date:	03/14/2013
Series:	Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	1 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

FRANCES WARD is professor emerita at Temple University where she served as David R. Devereaux Chair of Nursing. The founding dean of the School of Nursing at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, she maintains a clinical practice as an adult nurse practitioner. She is the author of On Duty: Power, Politics, and the History of Nursing in New Jersey (Rutgers University Press).

Table of Contents

Preface

1. Bread Is Not Sugar
2. Health Care: Perspectives from the Street Level
3. Nurse, Are You a Doctor?
4. Protection of the Public or Creation of a Guild?
5. Context, Data, and Judgment: When Is Enough, Enough?
6. Barriers, Opportunities, and Militancy

Epilogue
Index

Editorial Reviews

"Ward makes a convincing case for a view of health care that relies on clinical skills and diagnosis with sensitivity to the differences among groups—against one that pursues only curing at the expense of thorough diagnosis and caring."

University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing - Barbra Wall

A wonderful personal story of what it means to be part of a disruptive movement that changed healthcare in the United States, making nurse practitioners the future of primary care.

National Nursing Centers Consortium - Tine Hansen-Turton

"Ward makes a convincing case for a view of health care that relies on clinical skills and diagnosis with sensitivity to the differences among groups—against one that pursues only curing at the expense of thorough diagnosis and caring."

From the Publisher

“A wonderful personal story of what it means to be part of a disruptive movement that changed healthcare in the United States, making nurse practitioners the future of primary care.”

— Tine Hansen-Turton

National Nursing Centers Consortium