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What Do Nurse Practitioners Practice?
What should the nurse practitioner’s “scope of practice” be and how autonomously should she or he be allowed to practice within that scope? A half century after the first advanced training programs...
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“Scope of Practice” Minefields
“. . . my clinical practice as a women’s health NP began in the mid-1970s. My colleagues who had gone on to academic careers questioned my commitment to nursing and to nursing values. A common...
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“Real war at last. Can hardly wait. Here we go!” [The first of a series of essays about the gallant nurses of World War I commemorating the centennial of America’s entry into the war on April 6,...
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Remembering the Nurses of WW I (II)
“saving bits from the wreckage” [The second of a series of essays about the gallant nurses of World War I commemorating the centennial of America’s entry into the war on April 6, 1917] The term “blood...
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Remembering the Nurses of WWI (III)
“He’s saved, and that makes up for much.” [The third of a series of essays about the gallant nurses of World War I commemorating the centennial of America’s entry into the war on April 6, 1917] Of...
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Remembering the Nurses of WWI (IV)
“Mustard gas burns. Terrific suffering.” [The fourth of a series of essays about the gallant nurses of World War I commemorating the centennial of America’s entry into the war on April 6, 1917] Now,...
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Remembering the Nurses of WWI (V)
“They were very pathetic, these shell shocked boys.” [The fifth of a series of essays about the gallant nurses of World War I commemorating the centennial of America’s entry into the war on April 6,...
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Remembering the Nurses of WWI (VI)
[The sixth and final essay about the gallant nurses of World War I commemorating the centennial of America’s entry into the war on April 6, 1917] PLAGUE Influenza. The Plague. The Great Pandemic of...
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JUST RELEASED: Easing Pain on the Western Front (McFarland, 2020)
We are pleased to announce the publication of Easing Pain on the Western Front: American Nurses of the Great War and the Birth of Modern Nursing Practice, the book that has grown out of Paul...
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The Picture They Wouldn’t Publish
Here is the picture the publisher, McFarland & Co., refused to include in Easing Pain on the Western Front, my study of the American and Canadian nurses of World War I. It was taken in a French...
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