Loretta Ford, who co-founded the first academic program for nurse practitioners in 1965, then spent decades transforming the field of nursing into a serious clinical practice, education, and research, died on Jan. 22 at her home in Wildwood, Fla. She was 104. Her daughter, Valerie Monrad, confirmed the death. Today there are more than 350,000 nurse practitioners in America; it is one of the fastest-growing fields, and last year U.S. News and World Report ranked it the top job in the country.
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