Nursing - News August 28, 2012

Louise Hines awarded Ruth and William O. Sass Nursing Scholarship (Grand Island Pennysaver)
Louise Hines, R.N., center, of Niagara Falls, has been awarded the Ruth and William O. Sass Nursing Scholarship for 2012-13. Named in honor of Dr.

Musicians band together for woman stricken by meningitis (The News-Review)
MICHAEL SULLIVAN/The News-Review Donna Chavez and her husband, Jeff Dutra, pose Thursday in the kitchen of their Roseburg home Thursday.

Tonight's must-see TV: John Bishop goes straight in Accused and... (Mirror.co.uk)
How galling it must be for all those people who went drama school when Bishop wanders in and makes it look so easy The comedian has taken on straight acting roles before in Skins and in the Ken Loach film Route Irish, but this will be the first time that a lot of viewers will have seen him going for anything other than laughs.

Hospital Suspends Nurses After Donated Kidney Ends Up in Trash [Oops] (Gawker)
The University of Toledo Medical Center in Ohio suspended two operating-room staff nurses earlier this month after one of them accidentally threw away a donated kidney , rendering it unusable.

Walmart, CVS, RiteAid Step Up the Flu Shot Fight (MediaPost)
Following one of the mildest flu seasons on record, retailers are fight for American flu-fearers. In the latest move, Walmart says it is expanding its immunization program to include shingles and whooping cough, and that it has hired a battalion of nurses to administer them.

Kathy H. Rideout Named Dean of School of Nursing (University of Rochester)
This morning, University of Rochester Medical Center Chief Executive Officer Bradford C. Berk, M.D., Ph.D., announced the appointment of Kathy H. Rideout, Ed.D., P.N.P.-B.C., F.N.A.P., as dean of the University of Rochester School of Nursing .

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