The door of last resort : memoirs of a nurse practitioner / Frances Ward.

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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Main Author: Ward, Frances, 1950-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2013]
Series:Critical issues in health and medicine.
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xviii, 200 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780813560540
0813560543
Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.