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...qualified applicants for all degree levels last year--including 38,415 from bachelor's programs--according to the National League for Nursing (NLN). The profession is trapped in a catch-22: hospitals, desperate for staff, poach nurses from one another with bonuses and perks. Nursing colleges can't fill the gap with new graduates because the schools can't compete in this overheated marketplace for the experienced nurses they need as teachers. "Clinical salaries are so high that nurses don't want to leave for academia," says NLN CEO Beverly Malone. "But how do you train new nurses without teachers...
...There, former President Amin Gemayel, one of the stalwarts of the anti-Syrian coalition, lost to a small-time opposition candidate, Camille Khoury, who is unrecognizable to most Lebanese. Though Gemayel was defeated by just 418 votes, the loss is all the more stunning because he was campaigning to fill the seat once held by his son, Pierre Gemayel, who was gunned down in the suburbs of Beirut in November...
...said she hopes this new manual will fill this educational gap in the soldiers’ training...
...Washington State law ensures that women will have quick access to Plan B emergency contraception at drugstores, but a group of pharmacists slapped the state with a federal lawsuit on July 25. The state law allows druggists who have personal issues with Plan B to ask co-workers to fill the order, though the drug must be available in the same visit. But some store owners argue that the law still violates their moral objections...
...After we move east for a three-week stint at 13th Street and Avenue A, the longer commute to work allows no time for shared meals. Our social calendars fill up with individual engagements as we meet new acquaintances and adjust to city life. In the apartment, we only see each other in passing or during the early morning hours. Not long after our second move, my co-worker asks me, “Are you and Kameron okay...