Loretta Ford, the “mother” of the nurse practitioner, dies in 104

Loretford, who co -founded the first academic program for nurses in 1965, changed the field of nursing into serious clinical clinical care, education, and research fields for decades, and on January 22, Wildwood, Florida. I died at home. She was 104 years old.

Her daughter, Valerie Mon Rad, confirmed death.

Today, there are more than 350,000 nurses in the United States. This is one of the rapidly growing areas, and last year's news and world reports are the top jobs in Japan that reflects salary potential, work satisfaction, and career opportunities. It was ranked.

The success was one of the results of one person, and in 1965, the first graduate program for a nurse at the Colorado University, and then mapped the outline of the field.

At that time, the nurse was an important number in the medical field, providing not only management support but also important services when doctors were not available. However, the nurse's training and career framework was almost completely lacking.

“The focus of nurses is too big for education and management,” said Dr. Ford at Duke University in 1970.

She advanced further in 1972 and was hired as the first faculty of Nursing at Rochester University. So she implemented a “unification” model of nursing, whose education, practice, and research is completely integrated.

“It gives the researchers of nurses who study their work and conduct their work to research themselves, while educating their work in their profession,” said Steven, the chairman of the American Nurse Association.・ A. Ferrara mentioned in an interview. 。

Dr. Ford's work in the 1970s often faced a doctor's resistance. Doctors laughed at the nurse's thoughts of swinging their influence in the medical field and probably threatening their rule.

“We actually got a hatred letter by e -mail,” said Irene Sullivan Marx, who studied under Rochester's Dr. Ford, and is currently undergraduate of New York University's Faculty of Nursing. I mentioned.

However, Dr. Ford and others have established a state -level license protocol, standardizes the curriculum, adjusts insurance programs, so that nurses can have a real role in the medical system. The insurance program has been adjusted.

And she does not replace a doctor, but to complement the doctor in order to work at the forefront at the hospital, to go out in a community focusing on health and prevention of grassroots. I emphasized that I was there.

“It was clear to me,” she told Healthy Women Magazine in 2022. Because it happens in the hospital. Who will make a decision at 3 am? “

Loretta Seseria Pephinster was born in Bronx on December 28, 1920, grew up in Pasic, New Jersey, his father, Joseph, was a lithographer, and his mother, Nelly (Williams), supervised his house.

When I was a child, Loretta wanted to be a teacher, but the onset of PRESSION attacked the family's finances violently and was forced to find a job at the age of 16. New jersey hospital.

Her fiance was killed in battle in 1942 and urged her to join the U.S. Army Air Force aiming to become a flight nurse. However, her poor eyesight was disqualified from the flight, and by the end of the war she was based in a hospital in Denver.

She obtained a bachelor's degree in Colorado University in 1949 and obtained a Master of Public Health in 1951.

At an early stage of her career, she specializes in pediatrics and teaching on a nursing program at Colorado University. By 1955, she became an assistant professor and gained a doctorate in school in 1961.

She married William J. Ford in 1947. He died in 2014. Their daughter is her only survivor.

Dr. Ford's job took her to a country in Colorado. There were many poor families, where there were few doctors, and the need for basic preventive medicine was serious. She noticed that she played many roles under the title “Nurse”. She was part of public health officials, some counselors, and all -around clinicians.

At the same time, the Kennedy and Johnson administration had a new emergency in the issues that support the public health and innovation of rural areas in all medical fields.

In cooperation with Colorado's pediatrician Henry Silver, Dr. Ford created a graduate program for nurses, but was initially a form of continuous education and no degree. But the core of her vision was already there. Nurses should be trained to make independent decisions, have their own practices, and participate in healthcare as part of the team.

“The perfect independence of today's medical workers is a myth,” she said in Duke. “It may be a really poor practice.”

By the time she retired from Rochester in 1986, there were thousands of nurse practitioners with thousands of licenses, not many doctors to accept them as colleagues and support players.

Dr. Ford continued to write and lecture, and in 2011 she entered the US Women's Hall of Fame.

“I have a lot of trust in 140,000 nurses, but not worth it,” she said in a reception speech. “They are the people who fought a good battle. They took the heat, they set it up, they did beautifully.”