Making Room
in the Clinic
Price: $45.95
Subtitle:
Nurse Practitioners and the
Evolution of Modern Health Care
Author:
Julie Fairman
Subject:
Health and Medicine
Cloth
ISBN 978-0-8135-4319-2
Pages:
272 pages, 1 table
Publication Date: May 2008
Series: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
Praise
for
Making Room in the Clinic“Fairman writes an impressive history of nurse practitioners -
an eminently readable and scholarly critique of how
nursing changed and adapted to society, politics and
economics from the 1960s through the 1980s."
-Sandra B. Lewenson, EdD, RN, FAAN, Professor of Nursing, Lienhard
School of Nursing, Pace University
"Fairman
addresses critical issues that are relevant to the
nursing and medical professions today and provides a
much-needed history of the nurse practitioner movement."
-Arlene
W. Keeling, Centennial Distinguished Professor of
Nursing, University of Virginia, Director of the Center
for Nursing Historical Inquiry, and President, AAHN
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.
About the Author:
Julie Fairman is an associate professor and the director of
the University of Pennsylvania Barbara Bates Center for
the Study of the History of Nursing, a registered nurse,
and a fellow of the American Academy of Nurses.
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