She says many times the school nurse is the first one to bring health problems to the attention of parents.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

Small towns in the Appalachian Mountains needed nurse-midwives and I went to a town called Truitt, my father's first name.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

Clara Barton started her life as a nurse during the early days of the Civil War in eighteen sixty-one.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

She became a full-time nurse for the wounded on their way from the fields of battle to the hospital.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

In nineteen thirteen, Isadora's two children, Deirdre and Patrick, along with their nurse, were drowned in the Seine River in Paris.

VOA: special.2010.08.29

said the gray-haired woman. "You see,I was nurse to the boy when it happened,and for years afterward I worked in the family.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

Every state is different. The association says Vermont has one nurse for every two hundred seventy-five students.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

The doctor knew him well. The patient was a nurse who worked at the hospital.

VOA: special.2009.01.27

Edie Falco of "Nurse Jackie" and Julia Louis-Dreyfus from "The New Adventures of Old Christine."

VOA: special.2010.08.27

Again,Clara Barton went to the fields of battle to nurse the wounded.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

The patient was a nurse who worked at the hospital.

VOA: special.2010.05.18

I became a nurse-midwife, the person who helps deliver babies.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

Their mother,an Indian nurse at the hospital,dies in childbirth.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

The group says the quality of medical care will drop if nurse practitioners are given more authority.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

We write prescriptions." For years,nurse practitioners have been playing a larger role in the nation's health care, especially in regions with few doctors.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

He says studies on the effectiveness of nurse practitioners have been too small to be conclusive.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

Leslie Henry and Maura Constance are nurse practitioners at the Arlington Free Clinic in Arlington,Virginia.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

Army Lieutenant Zacharia Davis,a nurse, says it was sometimes difficult to provide help quickly during the exercise, because of a lack of communication among military groups.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

With the shortage of primary care physicians, expanding the authority of nurse practitioners.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

Jan Towers is Director of Policy for the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

"Nurse practitioners provide good care and certainly the studies have supported that.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

"Nurse practitioners have a lot of the same functions as doctors.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14