More Than Medicine - Nurse Practitioners Problems They Solve for Patients, Health Care

"Shows how a group of nurse practitioners expand the medical encounter to include a mix of health, social, and coordination problems--illustrating the ways in which these providers are not just filling-in for absent physicians, but are filling in for the absence of the state in attending to the problems of poverty and unequal access to health care"--

List of contents

Introduction

1. Nursing's Expertise

2. From Medical Work to Clinic Work

3. Organizational Care Work

4. New Boundaries, New Relationships

5. Gaining Status, Losing Ground

6. The Contraction of Social Work

7. The Misrecognition of Social Problems

About the author

LaTonya J. Trotter

Summary

"Shows how a group of nurse practitioners expand the medical encounter to include a mix of health, social, and coordination problems--illustrating the ways in which these providers are not just filling-in for absent physicians, but are filling in for the absence of the state in attending to the problems of poverty and unequal access to health care"--

Product details

• Authors: LaTonya J. Trotter
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781501748141
• ISBN: 978-1-5017-4814-1
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration