SESSION
Friday, July 13, 2007: 4:00 PM-5:30 PM
Issues in Nursing History
 Disciplining Dying: A Political History of the Medicare Hospice Benefit and its Impact on Contemporary End-of-Life Care in the United States
Joy Buck, PhD, RN
 Nightingale's Influence on Health Policy for The Poor
Linda Holbrook Freeman, RN, DSN
 Professional Nursing Shortages Past and Present, Local Insight into Global Issues: Staffing the University of Virginia Hospital, 1945-1965
John C. Kirchgessner, PhD, RN, PNP