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Mulligan, Joan E. – Nursing Outlook, 1976
The article focuses on one nurse's experience in the nurse-midwife program at a large New York medical center. Terming the learning process a painful transition from academe to reality, the author discusses skills learned, conflicts with physicians' belief systems, rewards and frustrations, and the need for nurse-midwife identity. (Author/MS)
Descriptors: Career Change, Learning Experience, Medical Education, Nurses