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Loretta Ford, ‘Mother’ of the Nurse Practitioner Field, Dies at 104

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(New York Times) – She transformed nursing by making it an area of clinical practice and research and recasting nurses as colleagues of doctors, not assistants. Loretta Ford, who co-founded the first academic program for nurse practitioners in 1965, then spent decades transforming the field of nursing into an area of serious clinical practice, education and research, died on Jan. 22 at her home in Wildwood, Fla. She was 104. (Read More)

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Loretta Ford, who co-founded the first academic program for nurse practitioners in 1965, then spent decades transforming the field of nursing into an area of serious clinical practice, education and research, died on Jan. 22 at her home in Wildwood, Fla. She was 104. Her daughter, Valerie Monrad, confirmed the death. Today there are more... The post Loretta Ford, ‘Mother’ of the Nurse Practitioner Field, Dies at 104 appeared first on STAY INFORM…

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