Online Edition Times-Standard
Note: This is the first in a series of profiles of local advanced practice clinicians -- the term for health care providers such as nurse practitioners, physician assistants and nurse midwives.
FAYETTE COUNTY: Fayette couple win major award from Farm Bureau Lexington Herald-Leader
A Fayette County couple have been named winners of Kentucky Farm Bureau's annual Outstanding Young Farm Family contest. John and Jill Mahan received the first-place award at Farm Bureau's annual convention at the Galt House Hotel in Louisville. They will receive a Kubota-brand utility vehicle courtesy of KFB Insurance and Kubota Corp., $1,000 from Premier Crop Insurance, $500 from the Dodge Truck
US/Texas: STAR Flight program recognized at Texas EMS conference Rotorhub
The Austin-Travis County EMS STAR Flight helicopter program was selected on Tuesday as the outstanding Texas air medical provider EMS program, and recognized at the annual Texas EMS Conference in Dallas.
A Philosophical Baker Indian Express via Yahoo! India News
This French nurse spreads cancer awareness through her delicious cooking SHE'S been tending cancer patients for 28 years. And she's been baking for over 40. French nurse Hanife, 52, is on a two-day visit to Delhi these days, to instruct Delhiites on her passion: baking. An advanced practice nurse in Oncology, Hanife held baking classes at Khan Market's popular Market Café. She whipped up
Edney earns certification Asheville Citizen-Times
COLUMBUS - Marie Edney, ACHRN, program director for the St. Luke's Regional Hyperbaric and Wound Care Center, recently passed the national board examination in wound management. She has been approved as a certified wound specialist.
Nurse doctorate could increase nurse quality, patient care The Oshkosh Northwestern
A push to require additional education for advanced care nurses could be a very positive step for the College of Nursing at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.
School Notes The Scranton Times-Tribune
News and notes from area schools
ENA: Fragementation, Regionalization of Emergency Care, Nursing Shortage Among Most Pressing Challenges Facing US U.S. Newswire via Yahoo! News
Fragmentation and regionalization of emergency care services, nursing workforce shortages, disaster preparedness and pediatric emergency care must be prioritized at the local, state and federal levels to improve the nation's emergency care system, according to written testimony provided today to Congressional and national policy leaders by the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA).
GENERAL, LIFE AND DEATH AT SAN FRANCISCO'S HOSPITAL OF LAST RESORT / FOR TRAUMA TEAM, SAVING LIVES IS BOTH A SOCIAL AND San Francisco Chronicle
After 13 years doing trauma surgery at San Francisco General Hospital, Dr. Andre Campbell knows just about everything there is to know about calamity, mayhem and long nights. On this Friday evening, when he was on call and tethered to the hospital until
State's Files on Doctors Fall Short: The State Maintains Public, Online Profiles of Florida's Doctors and Other Health RedNova
By Jacob Goldstein, The Miami Herald Dec. 10--IN 2003 -- 11 years after he pleaded guilty to 82 felony counts of Medicaid fraud, and four years after New York regulators took away his podiatry license for "gross negligence" -- Jack J. Cohen started practicing podiatry in Miami Beach.

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