Loretta Ford, 91, Started Nurse Practitioner Movement
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Loretta Ford didn’t mean to start a movement. As a nurse in rural Colorado, where doctors were few and far between, she saw a need for nurses with more medical knowledge and later was able to put that need into practice. Today, there are more than 140,000 nurse practitioners. Read her story. http://www.csa.us/email/spirit/ssarticles/1012SeniorSpotlight.html