More Than Medicine

Nurse Practitioners and the Problems They Solve for Patients, Health Care Organizations, and the State

LaTonya J. Trotter (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

216 Seiten

2020
Ilr Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-4815-8 (ISBN)

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In More Than Medicine, LaTonya J. Trotter chronicles the everyday work of a group of nurse practitioners (NPs) working on the front lines of the American health care crisis as they cared for four hundred African American older adults living with poor health and limited means. Trotter describes how these NPs practiced an inclusive form of care work that addressed medical, social, and organizational problems that often accompany poverty. In solving this expanded terrain of problems from inside the clinic, these NPs were not only solving a broader set of concerns for their patients; they became a professional solution for managing "difficult people" for both their employer and the state. Through More Than Medicine, we discover that the problems found in the NP's exam room are as much a product of our nation's disinvestment in social problems as of physician scarcity or rising costs.

LaTonya J. Trotter is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Vanderbilt University. Follow her on X @phdlt.

Introduction
1. Nursing's Expertise
2. From Medical Work to Clinic Work
3. Organizational Care Work
4. New Boundaries, New Relationships
5. Gaining Status, Losing Ground
6. The Contraction of Social Work
7. The Misrecognition of Social Problems

Erscheinungsdatum	02.03.2020
Reihe/Serie	The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	1-5017-4815-7 / 1501748157
ISBN-13	978-1-5017-4815-8 / 9781501748158
Zustand	Neuware