Interview with Karen Slabaugh, March 23, 1979
Project: Frontier Nursing Service Oral History Project
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Karen Slabaugh learned about the FNS while working as a nurse in Costa Rica and subsequently went through FNS family nurse and midwifery training. She gives details of the curriculum and explains how the two programs overlap. The range of a midwife's skills and duties is also indicated. Slabaugh sees nursing experience with the FNS as providing an effective laboratory for the success of persons like herself who wish to serve in other isolated rural locations throughout the world.Interview Accession
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Slabaugh, Karen Interview by Dale Deaton. 23 Mar. 1979. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Slabaugh, K. (1979, March 23). Interview by D. Deaton. Frontier Nursing Service Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Slabaugh, Karen, interview by Dale Deaton. March 23, 1979, Frontier Nursing Service Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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