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NYUCN's Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing Launches REASN Initiative
Source: New York University (Release)
The Next Phase of the Hartford Institute's work with Specialty Nursing Organizations Will Reach 200,000+ Nurses The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at NYU College of Nursing announces the launch of REASN (Resourcefully Enhancing Aging in Specialty Nursing), a continuation of its work with specialty…
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Professor Kader Asmal to open 15th Out in Africa Film Festival
Source: Filmmaker South Africa
Original Source The Out in Africa SA Gay & Lesbian Film Festival which is turning 15 this year is honoured to have Professor Kader Asmal, former Minister, MP and currently professor extraordinary at UWC, as key note speaker at the Festival's opening night in Cape…
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66% want immigration clampdown
Source: Irish Examiner
by Shaun Connolly TWO-THIRDS of the population want immigration restricted, a wide-ranging survey exposing Ireland's contradictory attitude to becoming a multicultural society has revealed. Despite the call for a clampdown, 54% believe the country's decade-long experience of mass migration has been good for the republic,…
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Boomers may see doctor shortage; Medical students shun careers caring for older patients
Source: USA TODAY
by Rita Rubin Medical students are shying away from careers in general internal medicine, which could exacerbate the U.S. doctor shortage expected by the time the youngest Baby Boomers head into their senior years, researchers report today. Only 2% of 1,177 respondents to a survey…
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Support This Bill
Source: Time Magazine
Original Source By Edward M. Kennedy and Orrin Hatch Imagine the enormous difference it would make to our communities and nation if every American served for a year with a community-service group, nonprofit enterprise or faith-based organization. This month we're introducing in the Senate the…
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Volunteering to get tomorrow's dropouts on track
Source: The Boston Globe
Original Source By Robert Balfanz and Michael Brown MILLIONS OF American students are back in high school, and before the year is done more than 1.1 million will drop out. In many of the nation's cities and low-wealth rural districts, 40 to 60 percent of…
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Child protection groups criticise HSE cutbacks
Source: The Irish Times
by CARL O'BRIEN, Social Affairs CorrespondentCHILD PROTECTION groups warned yesterday that vulnerable young people will be at risk as a result of the Health Service Executive's (HSE) decision to suspend plans for a 24-hour social care service. The HSE wrote to unions in the last…
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President McAleese launches 'Preparing for Life'
Source: Northside Partnership
A unique early intervention programme which provides services to support parents to ensure that a child is ready for school on a social and emotional level will be launched today by President Mary McAleese at the Darndale and Belcamp Village Centre.Co-ordinated by the Northside Partnership,…
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Group to lobby for right to wear hijab
Source: The Irish Times
by PATSY McGARRY A NEWLY formed Muslim group has been set up to help ensure the continued rights of Muslim women to wear the hijab in Ireland. The Irish Hijab Campaign will lobby for legislation to protect and support those wearing the hijab. It hopes…
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A push to extend years in elementary school
Source: Los Angeles Times
by Mitchell Landsberg Armando Sosa's elementary school is just a quick scramble up a steep dirt path and over a crosswalk from his home in Ramona Gardens, an Eastside housing project known for its crime and violence. If he's late, he can hear the school…
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