Eugene A. Stead

I was frantically navigating a wheel chair with my mother in it. I was avoiding stretchers, rushing nurses and orderlies through the corridors of a hospital emergency room; it was not an easy task. We came to a curtained room and patiently waited for a doctor. A lady appeared in a white gown and went through the routine medical exam. I still remember her face, her compassionate eyes, comforting words and a personal touch; she held my shoulders calmed my nerves and assured that my mother was not in

“You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it…You must have pride in your own work and in learning to do it well,” George Elliot says in his novel Middlemarch. Elliot suggests that passion is what stops the moans and groans of going to work every day and turns work into fun. It is crucial too to learn fully how to do the job so that the outcome of practicing it involves love, pride and satisfaction. However, in this hard economic time, one cannot make decisions based on

Status of EBP in the PA Profession Introduction The entire health industry is highly commercial and the face of the industry has changed and so has the requirements. Value creation today is mostly done by pharmacy benefit managers, doctors, nurses and the Physician Assistant--PA. These and health maintenance organizations are the new healthcare players. They are in need of modern tools to improve the medical cost management skills, and creating a competitive organizational culture. (Lopez, 7)

Thelma Ingles, a registered nurse, and Dr. Eugene A, Stead, were the pioneers of Duke MSN program in 1958 (Pollitt & Raesman, 2011). Both wanted to bring a solution to the imminent shortage of clinicians during the 1950’s and 1960’s. However, due to inability to obtain program accreditation, the program soon closed and Stead shifted his perspective from training nurses to training military corpsmen. According to Kent (2010), in 1965, Stead admitted and trained the first class of PAs consisting

1(p19) Several medical professionals and educators recognized this shortage and tried to address it by promoting the need for a “mid-level” provider. 1(p21) Eugene A. Stead, Jr., MD was the first person to successfully establish a program designed to train these mid-level providers. In 1965, Stead instituted the first educational program for physician assistants at Duke University with the first class consisting of four ex-Navy medical corpsmen. 1(p24) Several similar programs

as well. Since the program only started out as a two-year degree for experienced corpsmen, more education would be needed for students with no experience in the medical field. Being the creator of the program Dr. Eugene Stead saw that a bachelor’s degree would best fit the program. Stead stated that a need for a more complex program is needed for quality PA’s, “specialization is necessary and will continue”3; today physician assistants can obtain a master’s degree for the program.

RUSS 321 Essay #1 9/27/15 European Influences in Eugene Onegin In the 19th century, Peter the Great created westernizing reforms in Russia. Prior to this, Russia’s written language was only used for clerical writing, and now the country needs a modernized language for new fiction novels. Many of the new novels exhibit a European influence as Russia transitions from their traditional culture into a westernized culture. Alexander Pushkin’s novel Eugene Onegin is one of the novels influenced by European

Dr. Eugene A. Stead Jr. The founder of the Physician Assistant program in 1965 at Duke University was, Dr. Eugene A. Stead Jr. He started the program as an answer to the shortage of primary care physicians. The training was completed by military corpsman who had no prior medical background and they had to complete two years of training to graduate with the title physician assistant. The first class graduated in 1967. However, not everyone was content with this new career in the medical field

The development of a character is crucial to a novel, as well as how the character changes over the course of the novel. In A Separate Peace Gene Forrester proves to be a dynamic character, throughout the novel he is faced with adversity, resulting in disaster. Although Gene makes amends in the end he has a long road to get there after his sharp change of character, from friendly to hateful. Gene Forrester's dynamic character shows a sinister side to his character, including pushing Finny from

overview the work environment, duties, responsibilities, and how being a PA will affect the lives of their patients. In the mid-1960’s, physicians and educators realized that there was a shortage of primary care physicians. In response to this, Eugene A. Stead Jr. , MD, put together the first class of of Physician Assistants , or PA’s, in 1965. This PA program’s duty was not only to help the shortage of primary care physicians, but instead was to help train