Nursing - News June 5, 2011

Region applies for funds for displaced NWGRH employees (Rome News - Tribune)
30. She doesn't want the employees staring down the barrel of unemployment to think they don't have options.

1,000 jobs could be cut in NHS locally - trade union warning (Pendle Today)
A LEADING trade unionist warned an audience at Burnley Mechanics the Government's proposals for the NHS would lead to 1,000 local job cuts and deny people future major medical advances.

Neighbors: 'The Ginny Necklace' to aid nursing students (Star-Gazette)
The Ginny Necklace, designed to honor its namesake, Virginia Hilfiger, sells for $125. A quarter of the proceeds benefit the Ginny Hilfiger Memorial Scholarship Fund at the Arnot Ogden School of Nursing.

NEIT graduates receive 'nursing pins' (Providence Journal)
The first graduating class of the nursing program at the New England Institute of Technology received "nursing pins" in a ceremony Saturday.

It's hats off to iconic symbol of the nursing profession (Chicago Sun-Times)
It was once an iconic symbol. Upon graduation from nursing school, a newly minted nurse would receive her cap as a symbol of her success and entrance into the profession of nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale.

New Nursing Home in the Works (KAUZ)
Despite economic hardships in Texoma, Bellmire Healthcare Facilities is pulling through with construction plans for a new nursing home on US 287 in Bowie.

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