Nursing - News September 5, 2012

Fort Bend resident Named Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (Fort Bend Star)
Susan D. Ruppert [ZIP 77479], Ph.D., R.N., assistant dean and chair of the Department of Acute and Continuing Care at The University of Texas Health Science Center School of Nursing, will be inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing on Oct.

We will not be moved say nurses in demonstration over threat to Leeds ... (Beverley Today)
Nurses at the Leeds General Infirmary say they would not move to another centre should children's heart surgery be forced to close.

Blanchfield's medals being donated to hospital (KFVS12)
Relatives of Col. Florence A. Blanchfield are traveling to Fort Campbell to donate her remaining medals and awards to the hospital that was named for her 30 years ago.

George Michael - George Michael Plays For Doctors And Nurses At Vienna Comeback Show (ContactMusic)
George Michael performed for the medics who helped save his life after he was diagnosed with severe pneumonia in November when he returned to the stage in Austria on Tuesday night .

Main image for Crucifix case 'pivotal' to the rights of Christians (Western morning News)
A Westcountry nurse who was banned from wearing a visible crucifix at work will fight her case in the European Court of Human Rights today.

George Michael thanks Vienna workers with gig (Sunherald)
The 49-year-old former Wham! front man tweeted Tuesday "Hey everyone, it's that time again! And I get to open the tour singing to the men and women who saved my life." Michael was in the middle of his "Symphonica" tour when he fell ill in Vienna in November.

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