In a continued effort to help alleviate the nationwide nursing shortage, the
Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing's Future will host the
Promise of Nursing for South Carolina gala to raise funds and provide
scholarships to help ease the nursing shortage in South Carolina. As the 30th
Promise of Nursing regional
gala to be held, this year's proceeds will contribute to the more than $18 million raised across the country to date.
All funds raised from the event, which is being held in Charleston on Thursday, November 3, will remain in South Carolina to support undergraduate nursing
student scholarships, graduate
nursing education fellowships to prepare nurse faculty, and grants to South Carolina area nursing schools to help expand their program capacity. More than 500 South Carolina nurses and healthcare professionals are expected to be in attendance at the Charleston Marriott Hotel beginning at 6 p.m.
"Nurses are the heart and soul of patient care as they care for patients during their most intimate moments, from bringing new life into the world to helping patients die with dignity," says Marilyn J. Schaffner, PhD, RN, CGRN, chief nursing executive and administrator for clinical services, Medical University of South Carolina Medical Center. "Through partnership with the Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing's Future, we have the opportunity to help fund scholarships for student nurses as they become part of the magic of nursing."
When your health is failing and you require assistance with your basic needs, the last thing you should be worried about is the color of the person providing it. Right? In the eyes of one nursing company, maybe not.
Four nurses recently filed a lawsuit alleging that their employer, Accord Services, violated their civil rights by refusing to send black nurses to care for white patients.
COBB COUNTY, Ga. —
Four women are suing a
nursing company because they say their leaders wouldn't send black nurses to take care of white patients.
In the 63-page lawsuit, the women claim Accord Services violated their civil rights. They said the
screened their nurses based on their race before sending them to a patient's home.
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Four senior citizens will appear in front of a federal judge in Georgia today after telling undercover informants about plans to attack federal buildings with explosives and a biological toxin.
The men named in the charging documents, Frederick Thomas, 73, of Cleveland, Ga., and Toccoa, Ga., residents Dan Roberts, 67, Ray H. Adams, 65, and Samuel J. Crump, 68, were all members of a fringe militia organization, according to investigators.
They called themselves "the covert group," and met several times throughout the year to discuss killing federal
employees with rifles, explosives and ricin, a dangerous toxin that can be extracted from castor bean seeds using
acetone and lye.
“When it comes time to saving the Constitution, that means some people gotta die,” Thomas allegedly said.
“Let’s shoot the bastards that we discover are anti-American or enemies of America, treasonous,” Thomas allegedly said. “And to me the easiest and best way to do that is to walk up behind them with a suppressed .22. I am of the, uh, old school, Mafia; one behind the ear with a .22 is all you need.”
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I have 66 slaves working for me. Or at least that’s what
Slavery Footprint estimates based on my lifestyle and the size of my family.
The website — which was created by
Call + Response, a non-profit dedicated to ending slavery, in collaboration with the U.S. State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons — estimates the number of slaves by taking a look at more than 450 products, and breaking them down from the sourcing of raw materials through the manufacturing.
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