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Making Room in the
Clinic
Price: $25.95
First Paperback Edition
Subtitle: Nurse Practitioners
and the Evolution of Modern Health Care
Author:
Julie Fairman
Subject: Health
and Medicine,
Public Health
Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4502-8
Pages:
288 pages
Publication Date:
September 2009
Awards:
Winner of the 2009 Lavinia L. Dock Award for Exemplary Historical Research and Writing
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
"Making Room in the Clinic provides
a nuanced and sophisticated historical analysis of the rise of nurse
practitioners, focusing on how a shift in proactice politics and
clinical thinking was created. Fairman suggests ways why, for
many of us, the best doctor in our future may indeed be a nurse.
Given our current primary care crisis, this is a must read for anyone
who cares about the present and future of American health care."—Susan M. Reverby,
Women's Studies Department, Wellesley College
"Julie Fairman's robust
defense of nurse practitioners could not be more timely. As the US
debates how to provide millions of uninsured Americans with health care
the greatest challenge will be to determine how to provide services and
make sure they are safe and of high quality. This detailed
history highlights the complexities involved in responding to that
challenge."—Suzanne
Gordon, co-author of <i>Safety in Numbers: Nurse-to-Patient
Ratios and the Future of Health Care</i>
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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