Description
Book SynopsisTrade 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 ContentsPreface
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
