Mary Wakefield has been a shining beacon when it comes to increasing the power and influence of nurses in general and specifically nursing groups and policies. For nearly two decades she has strived to provide recommendations to those political hacks in Washington, as well as for various state organizations and governments. The website for the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) states that Mary "has served as director of the Center for Health Policy, Research and Ethics at George Mason University (as well as ) a consultant to the World Health Organization's Global Program on AIDS in Geneva, Switzerland" (Mary Wakefield, 2010). According to the website, Wakefield also worked with the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, the Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry, and the National Advisory Committee to HRSA's Office of Rural Health Policy. Her influence in governmental health care affairs is as varied...
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