About the author
Associate Professor of Nursing, Murray State University, Murray, KY (retired)
LT. COL. United States Army Nurse Corps, retired after 20 years service
Certified Nurse-Midwife, delivered more than 3,000 babies in an in-hospital birthing center and
military hospitals (now retired)
I am a Kentucky Colonel, a prestigious award conferred by The Governor of the Commonwealth of
Kentucky