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Joyce Foster Ph.D. CNM
Professor of Nursing Emerita
Graduate Nurse-Midwifery Program
College of Nursing, University of Utah
10 South 2000 East
Salt Lake City Utah 84112-5880
Email: Joyce.Foster@nurs.utah.edu
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Philosophy
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I believe in supporting, educating, motivating and empowering women to become active participants in their own health and wellbeing and in the health and well being of their families. I believe in the active participation and collaboration of families in the childbearing process. I believe in providing nurturing, sensitive, knowledgable, and skilled management of care at all times, but especially during the experience of labor and birth.
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Additional Areas of Expertise in Clinical Practice
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- A Woman's Health Agenda throughout her Reproductive Lifespan:
- Nutrition
- Stress Management
- Physical Fitness and Exercise
- Childbirth and Parenting Education
- Development of Birth Center and Nurse-Midwifery practice models
- Computer Information Systems for clinical nurse-midwifery practice
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Nurse Midwifery Activities
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1961 - 2001: | In active practice of nurse-midwifery (in Utah since 1964) |
1965: | Initiated the graduate program to prepare the first certified nurse-midwives in Utah |
1965 - 1976; 1984 - 1990: | Director, graduate nurse-midwifery program |
1971: | Wrote the first nurse-midwifery licensing act in Utah |
1986 - 1990: | Initial Director of Birthcare-Healthcare Associates |
1994: | Member of committee drafting an update of the Utah Nurse-midwifery Practice Act |
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Education
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1958: | B.S in Nursing University of California at Los Angeles |
1961: | M.S.N. in Maternal Newborn Nursing and Nurse-Midwifery Yale University |
1981: | Ph.D. in Health Science University of Utah |
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Professional Affiliations
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- Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing
- Member of the National Academies of Practice: Nursing
- Member and Fellow of the American College of Nurse-Midwives
- Member of the International Childbirth Education Association
- Member of the American Nurses Association
- Member of Sigma Theta Tau
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Honors
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June 1996: | Recipient of the American College of Nurse-Midwives Hattie Hemschemeyer Award, highest honor in American Nurse-Midwifery |
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Family
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Husband George
Daughter Sarah
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