Nursing Wounds Nurse Practitioners, Doctors, Women Patients, and the Negotiation of Meaning

Name: Nursing Wounds Nurse Practitioners, Doctors, Women Patients, and the Negotiation of Meaning
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ISBN: 9780813521817

ISBN-10: 0813521815

ISBN-13: 9780813521817

Edition: 1995

Authors: Sue Fisher

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The rise of the nurse practitioner as a new kind of health care professional has blurred the traditional distinction between physicians and nurses. Nurse practitioners argue that they combine both the traditionally male health care delivery of the M.D. and the traditionally female caring attention of the R.N. In her previous work Sue Fisher has analyzed the difficulties that women patients have in getting doctors to listen to their medical concerns. Now she asks whether women fare any better with nurse practitioners. Nursing Wounds takes us into the examining rooms of nurse practitioners and doctors to listen to how health care professionals and women patients communicate. The nurse…

Book details

List price: $41.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 7/1/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.90" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Nurses Do It Better



Situated Knowledges



Complaints Marked as Social Psychological: The Medical Consultation



Complaints Marked as Social Psychological: The Nursing Consultation



Complaints Coded as Medical: The Medical Consultation



Complaints Coded as Medical: The Nursing Consultation



Institutional Patterns of Interpretation



The Politics of Location


Epilogue: Making Health-Care Policy


Notes


References


Index