Patricia D'Antonio

Patricia D'Antonio is a nurse and historian whose body of scholarship situates the profession's work and worth in both American hospitals and health care agencies and in the fabric of families and communities. Her research is the first to call attention to nurses' dual sources of power and her work analyzes how the profession can authoritatively use them in constructing the new relationships and alliances that will strengthen nurses' agency, voice, and presence in debates about issues affecting patients, families, communities, and health care systems in the United States and around the world.