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Joan Slager
Joan K. Slager (born 1958) is an American nurse midwife and academic administrator serving the dean of nursing at Frontier Nursing University since 2018. Life Slager was born in 1958. She earned a B.S.N. from Nazareth College (Michigan), Nazareth College in 1980. She completed a certificate in nurse midwifery via the nurse-midwifery education program at Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing in 1991. Slager received a M.S.N. from Case Western Reserve University in 1993. She earned a doctorate in nursing practice from Oakland University in 2008. Her dissertation was titled, ''Investigating the Relationship of Postpartum Depression and Body Image Perception''. Her doctoral advisors were Barbara E. Harrison and Kerri D. Schuiling. Slager is a certified nurse-midwife. In 1993, she helped establish the Bronson Women's Service in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She became its director of practice in 1995 where she practiced midwifery for 21 years. Slager is a clinical coder who has exp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frontier Nursing University
Frontier Nursing University is a private graduate school of nursing in Versailles, Kentucky. It was established by the Frontier Nursing Service in 1939 as the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing. History Frontier Nursing University was founded in 1939 as the Frontier Graduate School of Midwifery. The Frontier Graduate School of Midwifery graduated its first class in 1940. In 1970, the school was renamed the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing with the opening of the nation's first family nurse practitioner education program. In 1989/1990, as a joint effort of the Frontier Nursing Service, Case Western Reserve University, the Maternity Center Association, and the National Association of Childbearing Centers, the Community-based Nurse-midwifery Education Program was born. Hence, Frontier became the first graduate school of nurse-midwifery to offer distance education. In 2005, the Community-Based Women's Health Care Nurse Practitioner option was added. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |