The history of nurse practitioners, their efforts to achieve provider status, and lessons learned from their activism are discussed. The nurse practitioner profession arose out of a need to meet a ...

Their clients come to them out of need and a desire to feel safe so they commit to deep listening and filling in all the ...

The Family Nurse Practitioner program focuses on the development of advanced practice nurses who are clinically and culturally competent to deliver primary care across the lifespan. Students receive ...

Doctors of all races utilized the first Black medical treatise for years. The first American Black nurse was Mary Eliza Mahoney. Mary Eliza Mahoney was the first Black woman to get her nursing license ...

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