Judith Par� is an experienced nurse who currently serves as the director of the Division of Nursing Education at the Massachusetts Nurses Association and is an associate lecturer in the Department of Nursing at the University of Massachusetts Boston and adjunct faculty at Northeastern University. Dayle Sharp has been a nurse for more than 30 years and a nurse practitioner for more than 23 years. She trained as a rural nurse practitioner in rural areas of Idaho and Texas. She is a clinical professor of nursing in the College of Health and Human Services at the University of New Hampshire. Polly Petersen has been a nurse for more than 48 years, starting out in a rural critical access hospital in Nebraska. She is a retired associate professor from Montana State University, Billings campus.