No.405 Joyce Cameron Foster

File — Box: 51, Folder: 3

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Joyce Cameron Foster (b. 1936) talks about the history of the nurse midwifery program at the University of Utah. Other topics include her personal background, education at UCLA and Yale University, teaching at Yale, coming to Utah to teach at Brigham Young University, procedures at LDS hospital, conflict with the medical community, teaching at the University of Utah, Mildren Quinn, the Nurse Midwife Practice Act, Madeleine Leininger, the Shiprock program, faculty turnover, candidate selection for nurse midwives, history of nurse midwifery, young mothers program, reality-oriented teaching methods, ACM certification, future challenges in the field.
Interviewer: Jan Brugel, Lisa Litton

Dates

1983-2018

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