I am a nurse historian who focuses on the intersection of nursing and health policy.
In particular I am intersted in how nursing has influenced health care policly through
specialization, education, and clinica practice. I am currently an RWJ Investigator in
Health Policy Fellow.

Articles

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Go to Ruth's House: Ruth Lubic and Public Advocacy, Nursing History Review (2010)
 

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Context and Contingency: The Post World War II History of Nursing Scholarship, Journal of Nursing Scholarship (2008)
 

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Reimagining Nursing’s Place in the History of Clinical Practice (with P D'Antonio), Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (2008)
 

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The Department of Veterans Affairs Pre and Post-Doctoral Nurse Fellowships: Diverse Opportunities for Research (with J L. Hobss, M J. Shively, J Bormann, L Johnson, and A Alt-White), Nursing Outlook (2008)
 

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Living Long With Short Bowel Syndrome: An Historical Case of Twenty-Nine Years of Living with Home Parenteral Nutrition (with C Compher, J Morris, and J Mullen), Journal of Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition (2007)
 

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Books

Making Room in the Clinic: Nurse Practitioners and the Evolution of Modern Health Care (2008)

This book examines how the public makes choices about who should provide their health care...

 

Critical Care Nursing: A History. (with Joan Lynaugh) (1988)
 

Contributions to Books

You Can’t Always Get What You Want, But You Get What You Need, Patients as Policy Actors (2009)
 

Working with Primary Sources: An Overview (with Mages K), Capturing Nursing History: A Guide to Historical Methods in Research (2008)
 

Commentary: Philosophical and Historical Basis of Nurse Practitioner Roles, Nurses, Nurse Practitioners. (2003)
 

Nurse Practitioner Research: An Historical Analysis (with Frances Hughes, Sean Clark, Deborah Sampson, and Eileen S. Marx), Nurses, Nurse Practitioners (2003)
 

Influence of Transplantation on Reproduction (with A Naji and C F. Barker), Current Therapy of Infertility 1984-1985 (1984)
 

Funded Research Grants

Practice Politics: The History of Nurse Practitioners, 1975 to the Present, (2010)
 

Caring, Curing and Healing: A Comparative Ethnographic Study on Biomedically and Complementary Oriented Health Care Regimes in Sweden and the USA, Consultant/Content Expert, PG, The Board of Research for Health and Caring Sciences at Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden (Anette Forss, Ph.D., RN, Principal Investigator) (2009)
 

Nursing, History, and Healthcare: A Website, 1 G13 LM008295, FG, Unpaid Consultant, Content Expert, National Library of Medicine Scholarly Work in Biomedicine and Health Grant Program (Karen Buhler-Wilkerson, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, Principal Investigator) (2009)
 

Who is Served and Who is Serving: Race?: Healthcare, and Health Care Professions Training at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, PG, Co-Investigator, $6,000, Leonard Davis Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (Amy Hillier, Ph.D., Principal Investigator) (2008)
 

Voices from the Past – Stories for the Future: Planning the University of Pennsylvania School (2006)
 

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