Nursing - News March 22, 2011

From nursing to florist: Jackie Burrell makes last minute career change (Petoskey News Review)
Jackie Burrell prepares flowers for delivery. She has owned SkyA s the Limit for 30 years.

Clinton: Clinton Woman Is URI Nursing Ambassador (The Hartford Courant)
On Campus Submitted by David P. Lavallee, University of Rhode Island, on 2011-03-21. Michael Salerno Photography University of Rhode Island nursing ambassadors pause for a photo during a recent meeting.

Preston Memorial Hospital to Close Birth Center (WVNS-TV)
Preston Memorial Hospital is closing its Birth Center. After May 1, the hospital will accommodate only emergency deliveries, said Adrienne Titus, PMH's Community Relations/Foundation director.

Man receives first full-face transplant in the U.S. (Portland's CW32 KRCW -TV)
The face transplants just keep coming. The complex operations have been performed elsewhere in the world and a partial face transplant was done in this country a few years ago.

UK wrong to downplay loss of nursing honor (Kentucky)
March 7 Herald-Leader article, "UK alters view of top nursing honor; Officials downplay loss of once-heralded Magnet status" I was much dismayed by the University of Kentucky's response to University of Kentucky Chandler Hospital and Kentucky Children's Hospital loss of Magnet status, a honor from the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Magnet ...

MP hits out at child centre threat (Clitheroe Today)
Thirteen children's centres in Hull are to be "effectively mothballed", a Labour MP has said as she compared cuts by the city's local authority to a scene from political comedy Yes Minister.

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