The Door Of Last Resort: Memoirs Of A Nurse Practitioner (critical Issues In Health And Medicine)
by Professor Frances Ward /
2013 / English / PDF
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Having spent decades in urban clinical practice while working
simultaneously as an academic administrator, teacher, and writer,
Frances Ward is especially well equipped to analyze the American
health care system. In this memoir, she explores the practice of
nurse practitioners through her experiences in Newark and Camden,
New Jersey, and in north Philadelphia.
Having spent decades in urban clinical practice while working
simultaneously as an academic administrator, teacher, and writer,
Frances Ward is especially well equipped to analyze the American
health care system. In this memoir, she explores the practice of
nurse practitioners through her experiences in Newark and Camden,
New Jersey, and in north Philadelphia.
Ward views nurse practitioners as important providers of primary
health care (including the prevention of and attention to the
root causes of ill health) in independent practice and as equal
members of professional teams of physicians, registered nurses,
and other health care personnel. She 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. Also
explored are the battles that nurse practitioners have waged to
win the right to practice—battles with physicians, health
insurance companies, and even other nurses.
Ward views nurse practitioners as important providers of primary
health care (including the prevention of and attention to the
root causes of ill health) in independent practice and as equal
members of professional teams of physicians, registered nurses,
and other health care personnel. She 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. Also
explored are the battles that nurse practitioners have waged to
win the right to practice—battles with physicians, health
insurance companies, and even other nurses.
The Door of Last Resort
The Door of Last Resort, though informed by Ward’s
experiences, is not a traditional memoir. Rather, it explores
issues in primary health care delivery to poor, urban populations
from the perspective of nurse practitioners and is intended to be
their voice. In doing so, it investigates the factors affecting
health care delivery in the United States that have remained
obscure throughout the current national debate
, though informed by Ward’s
experiences, is not a traditional memoir. Rather, it explores
issues in primary health care delivery to poor, urban populations
from the perspective of nurse practitioners and is intended to be
their voice. In doing so, it investigates the factors affecting
health care delivery in the United States that have remained
obscure throughout the current national debate