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Loretta C. Ford (née Pfingstel; [1] born December 28, 1920) [2] is an American nurse and the co-founder of the first nurse practitioner program. Along with pediatrician Henry Silver , Ford started the pediatric nurse practitioner program at the University of Colorado in 1965.
In 1965, Drs. Loretta Ford and Henry Silver developed the first NP program, and almost 60 years later, the nation’s 355,000 NPs are improving the health and lives of millions of patients and ...
The Living Legend designation from the American Academy of Nursing is bestowed upon a very small number of nurses "in recognition of the multiple contributions these individuals have made to our profession and our society and in recognition of the continuing impact of these contributions on the provision of health care services in the United States and throughout the world."
The present-day concept of advanced practice nursing as a primary care provider was created in the mid-1960s, spurred on by a national shortage of physicians. [7] The first formal graduate certificate program for NPs was created by Henry Silver, a physician, and Loretta Ford, a nurse, in 1965. [7]
Justina Ford (1871–1952) 1985 Denver's first black woman physician [62] Loretta Ford (b. 1920) 2012 Dean of the University of Rochester School of Nursing (1972–1985), co-founded the nurse-practitioner model at the University of Colorado in 1965 [63] Leslie Foster (b. 1957) 2018 Community activism [64] Linda Fowler (b. 1945) 2024
The health fair workers included medical students and nursing students who were trained by physicians. Nursing students were trained as physical examiners in an early demonstration of the expanding role of nurses, as the first nurse practitioner program had begun just four years earlier by Loretta Ford and Henry Silver at the University of ...
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Silver co-created the nation's first pediatric nurse practitioner education program in the 1960s along with Nurse Educator Loretta Ford, [1] and he helped establish a pediatric physician assistant program a few years later. In his later career, Silver studied and published on the abuse of medical students by physicians.