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“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 *
"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." -- Barbra Wall * University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing *

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

The Door of Last Resort Memoirs of a Nurse

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      Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 3/14/2013 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780813560533, 978-0813560533
      ISBN10: 0813560535
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      History of medicine Public health and preventive medicine

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      “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 *
      "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." -- Barbra Wall * University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing *

      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

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