Most of today’s Registered Nurses have Baccalaureate degrees, many with Masters and Doctorates. Nurses are providing primary care and hospital-based specialty care, conducting NIH grant funded research and serving as congressional representatives. It’s time to consider nursing in a new light—on the campaign trail and in our culture at-large.
Author: Margaret Perlia Bavis
Margaret Perlia Bavis is a Family Nurse Practitioner, an assistant professor at Rush University College of Nursing and a Public Voices Fellow with The OpEd Project.