Ward, Frances,  1950- <br/><br/>
The door of last resort :  memoirs of a nurse practitioner. 

 - New Brunswick, NJ :  Rutgers University Press,  (c)2013. 
 - 1 online resource (xviii, 200 pages). 
 - Critical Issues in Health and Medicine .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780813560540 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Ward, Frances, 1950- <br/>Ward, Frances, 1950- 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Nurse practitioners--United States--Biography.<br/>Nurse practitioners--United States--Personal narratives.<br/>Urban health--Case studies.<br/>Public health--Case studies.<br/>Medical personnel--Social aspects.<br/>Nurse Practitioners.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RT82  / .D667 2013