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Challenges facing nurse practitioners

Outside the old clinic building of what used to be Douglas Community Health Center, Margaret Ecker and Jean Carney discuss the multitude of challenges facing nurse practitioners and what legislative movement’s been made to overcome adversity of such restrictive practice.

 

Full footage of Jean Carney at the old Douglas Community Health Center.

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A community-driven archive project developed by the Student Health Coalition, in partnership with the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Eskind Library at Vanderbilt University.

2020