From the trunk of a volkswagen beetle: a mobile nursing clinic in appalachia.

This article identifies and describes the roles nurses and nurse practitioners played in caring for Appalachian families through a roving Health Wagon in the 1980s and 1990s in Southwest Virginia. Family nurse practitioner Sister Bernadette Kenny was instrumental in bringing care on wheels to rural residents living in the Appalachian mountainous region of southwest Virginia.
PMID: 24892864 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Rural Remote Health - June 5, 2014 Category: Rural Health Authors: Snyder A, Thatcher E Tags: Fam Community Health Source Type: research