More Than Medicine: Nurse Practitioners and the Problems They Solve for Patients, Health Care Organizations, and the State

ISBN-13: 9781501748141 Publisher: Cornell University Press Publication date: 04/15/2020 Series: The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work Pages: 216 Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.88(d) Age Range: 18 Years 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 roo