The first 20 years of nurse practitioner literature: an evolution of joint practice issues.
This study examines literature produced during the first 20 years of the nurse practitioner movement. The content of sampled articles suggests that the nurse practitioner/joint practice movement did not evolve in a social vacuum; historical situations and economic conditions limited or defined options. Licensure, clinical autonomy, prescriptive authority and third-party (insurance) payments are dominant issues within the many articles discussing dependent, independent and team-organized health care delivery. Whether joint practice or private practice will facilitate non-hierarchical relations among nurse practitioners and medical doctors, vs. acting as an ideological cover for continued inequality, remains to be determined.
Koch
L W
LW
Department of Sociology, University of Michigan-Flint.
Pazaki
S H
SH
Campbell
J D
JD
D009722:Nurse Practitioners; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D014481:United States