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by Julie Fairman, PhD, RN, 272 pp, $45.95, ISBN 978-0-8135-4319-2, Piscataway, New Jersey, Rutgers University Press, 2008.

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Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2008;162(11):1093.

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Making Room in the Clinic, an apt title, depicts the intense and chaotic struggle begun in the 1960s to establish a significant role for nurse practitioners (NPs) in clinical practice. It was a fascinating, and frustrating, epoch in American health care, one that I, a longtime advocate for NPs, remain emotionally attached to and one that decidedly was not organized nursing's or medicine's finest hour.

Nurses fought among themselves. Should they expand their practice to areas that had long been the turf of physicians? Or would doing so dilute the promotion of their central role in the care and comfort of people? Would success abet their economic exploitation by physicians and do little to alter nursing's underling status? Sadly, we were not noble underdogs. Nursing excluded minorities from their decision-making councils and thwarted the granting of course credits to corpsmen, so many of whom . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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