The Commonwealth Beat with Laura LeBeau - Episode 34 - 5/05/2024

The Commonwealth Beat with Laura LeBeau is a statewide Public Affairs program airing on all Seven Mountains Media Pennsylvania radio stations. Nurses are the frontline of patient care in medicine, whether at your family physician's office, assisting surgeons in the operating room, or acting as visiting nurses helping our senior and homebound community members.  There are currently some four million nurses working in the U.S. , which equates to one in every 85 Americans.   Laura speaks with Stephen Ferrara, President of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners about the state of nursing, as America embarks on National Nurses Week, May 6th through the 12th (Florence Nightingale's birthday).In the PA-mazing segment, a trip back to "God's Country," Potter County for a discussion about Cherry Springs State Park, an international dark sky location.