Loretta C. Ford

When Dr. Henry Silver and I founded the first nurse practitioner (NP)program in 1965, we knew NPs, given advanced preparation, could practice autonomously. For the benefit of patients who lack access to care or a choice of provider, it’s beyond time to make direct access to NP care a reality. Today, 270,000 NPs are transforming health care access for millions of patients in over 1 billion visits annually.

Unexpected outcome (positive or negative) including adverse drug reactions Acute adrenal failure: a potentially fatal consequence of an adulterated herbal remedy Harminder Sensi1, Harit Buch2, Loretta Ford3 and Rousseau Gama3 1 Chemical Pathology, Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust, Wolverhampton, UK 2 Endocrinology and Diabetes, New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton, UK 3 Chemical Pathology, New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton, UK Correspondence to Harminder Sensi, Harminder.sensi{at}nhs.net...

It’s no surprise that our mailbag overflowed with responses to Marie-Eileen Onieal’s editorial, “The ACA, Six Years Later ...” (Clinician Reviews. 2016;26[5]:10, 12). Everyone has an opinion about health care reform­—including a nursing legend.