Valerie A. Hart is a Professor of Nursing at the University of Southern Maine, in Portland, Maine and has been a psychotherapist in private practice continuously since 1978. She is the author of Patient-Provider communications: Caring to Listen, published by Jones Bartlett (2010).
Susan Henderson taught nursing for thirty-five years at Saint Joseph's College of Maine until retiring in 2011. While a faculty member she worked as a per diem staff nurse at local hospitals and a long term care facility. She served two terms as president of ANA-Maine and was appointed by the governor to the A...