"American Style Health Care: Helter Skelter Par Excellence"

"Myths and Realities of Apprenticeship in Nursing: Paternalism in Practice"

"Nursing Roots: Impact on Role Change"

"Professionalism and the Law"

"Women and the Political Process: Their Social Influence Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow"

From my study of nursing history and from reflections upon the terrible plight of the working nurse today, one observation haunts my mind.  It is this: medicine is the very antithesis of nursing.  The assumptions underlying the thesis that nursing is only the menial part of medical practice grew out of myths which we can no longer accept if we are to improve the health of society by developing nursing into the art and science it can be.  The persistent acceptance of these assumptions and this thesis has been most damaging to the health of nurses...If we accept the idea that nursing is the very antithesis of medicine, we will not talk about the expanding role of the nurse, but about the creation of a new role for nurses, a role that focuses sole attention on health and nursing care separate and apart from medical practice.  A new role for nurses will mean the creation of a new health care system, a system that will literally be a health care system.

-prepared for the Northwest Area Health Education Center and presented at a one-day workshop sponsored by Nursing Education, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, April 20, 1978.