In 1965, in answer to the growing demand for primary care, nurs-ing pioneer Loretta Ford, along with Dr. Henry Silver, created the first certificate program that pro- vided nurses with the skills to provide primary care to underserved popula- tions. Since the inception of that first program, the field has grown to include adult/gerontology, women’s health, neonatal, and other specialty roles, with minimum requirements for edu- cation at the master’s/doctoral level.
74J Adv Pract Oncol AdvancedPractitioner.com Section Editors: Heather M. Hylton and Wendy H. Vogel PRACTICE MATTERS Barriers to Practice and the Impact on Health Care: A Nurse Practitioner Focus MARY E. PETERSON, MS, APRN, AOCNP® From St. David’s South Austin Medical Center, Austin, Texas Author’s disclosures of potential conflicts of intersst are found at the end of this article. Correspondence to: Mary E. Peterson, MS, […]