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

by Sue Fisher

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813521815
• ISBN13: 9780813521817
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 272 Pages