The Door of Last Resort: Memoirs of a Nurse Practitioner

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193 Index Abram, Mary, 7 Academic Health Sciences University, xii, 79, 84 accommodation theory, 132, 143 accreditation, 47, 51, 77, 80, 86, 88, 90, 100, 102, 103, 107, 108, 137 Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), 34, 77, 78, 125, 155, 176, 178– 179, 182. See also Broadway House for Continuing Care action coalitions, 154, 161, 162, 163. See also Future of Nursing, The; Institute of Medicine advanced practice nurse, xiv, 13, 62, 76, 93, 201 AIDS. See Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome American Association of Colleges of Nursing , 47, 91 American Association of Critical Care Nurses, 79, 143 American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, 76, 94 American Association of University Professors , 175 American Heart Association, 14 American Hospital Association, 41 American Indian Health Center, 152 American Journal of Nursing, 161 American Nurses Credentialing Corporation , 76, 94 American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses, xiii, 47, 87; Annual Conventions, 1893–1899, 87. See also National League for Nursing anesthetists, certified registered nurse, 13, 97 anti-Vietnam War movement, x, 104 Anzaldúa, Gloria, xvii, 13; Borderlands: The New Mestiza/La Frontera, 13. See also borderland; hybridity Atlantic Building, Philadelphia, 26 Aughenbaugh, Andrea, 67, 72, 75 Baby-Think-It-Over Program, 54, 170 Bandura, Albert, xvii Barbara Bates’ Guide to Physical Examination , 146 barriers to practice, 88, 161, 189 beliefs, health, 7 Bellevue-Stratford Building, Philadelphia, 26 Bergen, Stanley S., 72, 73, 75, 78, 80, 82, 83, 106, 114, 152, 167, 179, 180 Berman, Eric, 148. See also Keystone Mercy Health Plans Betty (registered nurse pseud.), 169–171, 173. See also Saint Columba Neighborhood Club “Beyond Paradigm Shift: Primary Health Care in a Post-Reform Period” (conference ), 148 billing, 16, 41, 43, 45, 46, 55, 58, 71, 113, 115–117, 121, 136, 137, 147, 169 Black Panthers, 104 Black Power, x, 101, 104 Body Mass Index (BMI), 4, 17, 19, 31, 40, 127, 139, 149, 151, 184, 189. See also obesity Bolton, Linda Burnes, 159 borderland, xvii, 13, 23, 59, 188, 191. See also Anzaldúa, Gloria; hybridity Boston City Hospital, 102 Broadway House for Continuing Care (Newark ), 78, 178–180 broken windows theory, 15, 19, 187. See also Kelling, George L.; Wilson, James Q. Brown, Ester Lucille, 136, 162, 163 Buresh, Bernice, xv Burke, Laura J., 144 Cahill, William, 167 CAMcare, 8, 9, 18, 19, 23 194 Index Camden, 2–7, 9, 10, 15, 16, 18–20, 23, 24, 28, 30, 33, 34, 37, 54, 56, 69, 87, 92, 96, 110, 119, 123, 132, 139, 145, 147, 165, 172–176. See also Head Start Program Camden Community Health Center, 56, 110, 132, 147, 174, 175 Camden County Board of Social Services, 9 Camden County Council on Economic Opportunity, 4, 5, 20–23, 173, 174 Care Clinic (Philadelphia), 34, 58, 152 Carolyn D. Swartz Building, Seton Hall University, xi Centers for Disease Control, program for antibiotic addiction, 11 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 41, 100, 135; pass-through funding, 100 cerebrovascular accident (CVA), 2, 9, 17, 30, 98, 105, 106, 155, 173, 192. See also stroke certified registered nurse practitioner, 28, 110–113 charity care, 7, 15, 71 Charting by Exception Applications: Making It Work in Clinical Settings (Burke and Murphy), 144 Church Nurses Program, 173–174 civil rights, x, 164, 167 clinical nurse specialist, xi, 13, 109 Clinton, William Jefferson, 48, 60, 61, 71, 191 Coalition of Concerned Nurses, 85, 98 Code of Federal Regulations Title 42: Public Health, 45 collaborative practice agreements, 29, 49, 54, 56, 74, 75, 109, 110, 112, 150, 168 Commission on Health Care Costs (New Jersey), 67 Commission on Higher Education (New Jersey), 77 Commission on Higher Education (U.S.), Higher Education for American Democracy (1947), 162–163 Community College of Philadelphia, 57, 101, 137, 143 Congreso de Latinos Unidos, 63, 112 Consensus Model for APRN Regulation: Licensure, Accreditation, Certification, and Education (LACE), 86, 88, 102 context-based practice, ix, xvii, xviii, 1, 2, 6, 37, 43, 108, 121, 129, 130, 132–135, 140, 179, 180, 185, 187–192 Conwell, Russell, 46 Cooper University Hospital (Camden), 54, 87; Cooper Hospital Training School for Nurses, 87 coronary artery disease, 7, 15, 17 Covert, Emily C., 161 CPT. See Current Procedural Terminology Crichton, Michael, xv Current Procedural Terminology (CPT), 43, 44, 52, 115, 135–137 Cynthia (patient pseud.), 122, 127–133, 141, 192 data, clinical decision-making, 3, 16–18, 20, 27, 41, 42, 44, 50, 51, 57, 68, 69, 73, 82, 98, 105, 115, 121, 123–125, 127, 129, 131, 134, 137–147, 149, 170, 188...