Nursing - News June 24, 2011

Alberta nursing grads can expect casual, not permanent jobs (Edmonton Journal)
A Opinion A A A A Business A A A A Sports A A A A Entertainment A A A A Life A A A A Health Technology A A A A Travel A A A A Jobs A A A A Cars A A A A Homes Classifieds A A A A A A Ashley Estrin who is graduating from Grant MacEwan University's first bachelor of science in nursing class.

Nursing students work at City of Refuge (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
There was no grocery store in sight, no bank, no drug store. Just poverty. Enlarge photo Curtis Compton, ccompton@ajc.com Emory University nursing student Lauren Baldwin plays with 4-year-old Alexis Maddox in the Feed My Lambs day care center at City of Refuge in Atlanta on Tuesday, June 21, 2011.

UMMC Residency Helps First-Year Nurses Manage Frontline Trials By Fire (MediLexicon)
The University of Mississippi Medical Center's hospitals are the first in the state to offer new nurses a one-year residency program to help nursing graduates adjust to the stressful daily grind of frontline health care.

Panasonic CF-C1mk2 convertible tablet revealed (DarkVision Hardware)
Panasonic announced the Toughbook CF-C1mk2, a new convertible tablet with Intel's Core i5-2520M processor.

Love Story: A Plane Chat Led To A Trip Down The Aisle (Hartford Courant)
Vittorio Di Carlo served in Afghanistan with Italy's navy but never boarded an airplane until he came to the United States in 2005.

Money woes, infighting plague UW nursing school (The Seattle Times)
The University of Washington's School of Nursing — ranked a top nursing school for decades — not only is losing its dean, it has lost a sense of shared purpose among its faculty and staff, according to a sharply critical consultant's report.

Monterey Peninsula College training device mimics variety of ailments for nursing students (Monterey County Herald)
Monterey Peninsula College nursing students Donna Santos, left, and Hilary Ryan work with one of the new electronic robots at the MPC Nursing School.

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