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Comparative Study
. 2005 Mar-Apr;50(2):71-82.
doi: 10.1016/j.jmwh.2004.12.002.

Doubling back over roads once traveled: creating a national organization for nurse-midwifery

Katy Dawley  1
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Comparative Study

Doubling back over roads once traveled: creating a national organization for nurse-midwifery

Katy Dawley. J Midwifery Womens Health. 2005 Mar-Apr.

Abstract

The quest for a new national organization began in 1940 and concluded in November 1955 in Kansas City, Missouri, with the founding meeting of the American College of Nurse-Midwifery. This article looks at the conflicts with organized nursing about the place and role of nurse-midwives in the newly reorganized American Nurses Association and the National League for Nursing. Discussions and disagreements within nurse-midwifery over the need for a nonexclusive national organization that would set professional standards are examined.

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  • Mary Breckenridge and the birth of ACNM.
    Osborne K. Osborne K. J Midwifery Womens Health. 2005 May-Jun;50(3):257; author reply 257. doi: 10.1016/j.jmwh.2005.04.008. J Midwifery Womens Health. 2005. PMID: 15895016 No abstract available.

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