Unforgettable Faces: Through the Eyes of a Nurse Practitioner - Softcover

"...I enjoyed reading the stories of your interaction with patients and the members of the health care team. I appreciated the diversity of acceptance of your role by all the players in the community. I identified with your dilemma regarding the "assembly line" health care. Your decision to stick to your ethics and the tenets of NP practice was admirable. The book gives an accurate portrayal of the many dimensions of high quality primary care that NP's provide. It informs the public of the many roles NP's play. It gives them valuable information to help them become a better health care consumer and advocate for themselves and their families. This book will be a wonderful resource for professionals who are considering NP education, consumers looking for answers about NP's and NP's looking for a reminder of why we do what we do. My best wishes for the success of this book. I'm sure it's a best seller!" -- Marie-Eileen Onieal, MMHS, RN, CPNP, President, American Academy of Nurse Practitioners

"...In a lovely way the authors have woven compelling personal stories in amongst helpful facts about common patient complaints. The reader is presented with an excellent education about a variety of human situations (e.g. poverty,poor health choices, mental conditions) along with a deeper understanding about a broad range of disease entities commonly encountered in a primary care practice. Whether the reader is a present/future health care provider or a consumer of healthcare, s/he will finish this book with a greater appreciation of one's own body and mind and the intricacies and devotion required of good health care providers." -- Linda Pearson, RN, MSN, FNP, Editor-in-Chief, The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Healthcare

"Unforgettable Faces offers a realistic view of the professional challenges and issues encountered by advanced practice nurses through a variety of snapshots of their patients' clinic visits using patient vignettes. These brief insights into the clinician's process promote critical confidence when measured against the great responsibility of determining the appropriate differential diagnosis and treatment plan...Unforgettable Faces creates a safe environment for students, teachers, and practitioners to reflect and reconnect with the personal and professional issues we face as we continue to enhance our prominence in the health care arena. This one book could be used at all levels of educational and professional development for nursing students, practitioners and faculty. It's an asset and complement to our current practice texts." -- Santa J. Crisall, MA, ANP, RNC, former Editorial Director, American Journal of Nursing

This is a fascinating book that is directed at both healthcare providers and consumers. Written jointly by a family nurse practitioner and a physician, the volume contains an anthology of more than 75 case studies of patients, followed by factual information and resources about the patient's specific problem. Tate accurately weaves the role of a family nurse practitioner in each case study-very useful as a model for new graduates and for advanced practice students. Another strength of this book is its ability to help consumers understand the role of the nurse practitioner and to better understand common everyday health problems, which they deal with over their lifetime. The authors help consumers and providers alike to understand the struggles that both groups confront in the current healthcare system. ...The book is extremely readable...Unforgettable Faces:Through the Eyes of a Nurse Practitioner is very revealing in its portrayal of the human side of different experiences. This enriches providers of all types and helps patients understand some of the issues that healthcare providers face. Nurse Practitioners will identify with the issues portrayed by Tate. -- Reprinted with permission, Charlene M. Hanson, EdD, RN, CS, FAAN, Editorial Director, NP World News, November/December 1999