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I Need Nursing Diagnosis For Hiv
Alternative Names
Nurse midwife; CNM
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HISTORY OF THE PROFESSION
Nurse-midwifery dates back to 1925 in the United States. At that time, Mary Breckenridge developed the Frontier Nursing Service in Kentucky. The program used public health registered nurses, who had been educated in England, to staff nursing centers in the Appalachian mountains. The centers offered family health care services, as well as childbearing and delivery care, to residents in the...
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