Making room in the clinic : nurse practitioners and the evolution of modern health care
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Making room in the clinic : nurse practitioners and the evolution of modern health care
（Critical issues in health and medicine）
Rutgers University Press, c2008
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Available at 5 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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ISBN 9780813543192
Description
For years, nurses expanded their practice boundaries to meet their patients' needs, both with and without physician consent. But during the 1960s and 1970s, their level of recognition and authority changed dramatically. Today, nurse practitioners hold graduate degrees in a clinical specialty and are responsible for an enormous range of services from delegated medical regimens to independent care provision in hospitals and clinics. They provide primary health care to a range of clients along a scale from healthy to chronically ill and from wealthy to poor and uninsured.In "Making Room in the Clinic", Julie Fairman examines the context in which the nurse practitioner movement emerged, how large political and social movements influenced it, and how it contributed to the changing definition of medical care. Drawing on a wealth of primary source material, including interviews with key figures in the movement, Fairman describes how this evolution helped create an influential foundation for health policies that emerged at the end of the twentieth century, including health maintenance organizations, a renewed interest in health awareness and disease prevention, and consumer-based services.
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: pbk ISBN 9780813545028
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In Making Room in the Clinic, Julie Fairman examines the context in which the nurse practitioner movement emerged, how large political and social movements influenced it, and how it contributed to the changing definition of medical care. Drawing on primary source material, including interviews with key figures in the movement, Fairman describes how this evolution helped create an influential foundation for health policies that emerged at the end of the twentieth century, including health maintenance organizations, a renewed interest in health awareness and disease prevention, and consumer-based services.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: "Oh the Opportunities, the Possibilities...!"
Chapter 2: Following the Money
Chapter 3: Psychology Girls and Clandestine Groups: Rethinking Specialization in Nursing
Chapter 4: Stealing the Spell Book
Chapter 5: The AMA and ANA under Siege
Chapter 6: Coming Together, Breaking Apart: The National Joint Practice Commission and the Politics of Practice
Chapter 7: Traingulating Specialty Practice: The ANA, NAPNAP, and the American Academy of Pediatrics
Chapter 8: Making Room in the Clinic
A Note on Archival Sources
Notes
Index
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