Frances Ward

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On Duty

Power, Politics, and the History of Nursing in New Jersey

Rutgers University Press

For the first time, On Duty offers a highly readable account of the struggle for professional autonomy by New Jersey nurses and reveals how their political and legislative battles mirrored the struggle of women throughout the country to redefine their roles in society.

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The Door of Last Resort

Memoirs of a Nurse Practitioner

Rutgers University Press

This memoir 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. In doing so, it explores the issues in primary health care delivery to poor, urban populations and investigates the factors affecting health care delivery in the United States that have remained obscure throughout the current national debate.

  • Copyright year: 2013
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