Illinois programs tackle Africa’s nursing shortage

Nurse Theresa Poole spent her days this month offering health screening and medications as a volunteer in the Republic of Zambia. She delivered analgesics to suffering patients and taught HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention.
Poole returned home Wednesday to her job at the Rosewood Care Centers, residential centers serving several communities in Illinois. In Africa, she served [...]

Cancer Survivors Break Ground on Proton Therapy Center

Cancer survivors joined Central DuPage Hospital, Radiation Oncology Consultants and ProCure Treatment Centers to break ground on construction of the new Proton Therapy Center of Central DuPage Hospital, a ProCure Center. When it opens in early 2011, the center will be one of only a handful of centers in the nation to offer proton therapy, [...]

Mrs. Lewis as a registered nurse for more than 50 years

Tribute: Lucia Monica Lewis was born in Chicago to Anthony and Anne Sutkus. She was raised and attended schools in Waukegan, Ill. In 1940 she graduated with a nursing degree from Loyola University.
In 1941, she married Everett Lewis and raised her family in North Chicago.
A registered nurse for more than 50 years, Mrs. Lewis [...]

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School Nurse Shortage Influences Student Health Care

School nurses are key health educators, with access to young people at a formative time in their lives.
“There is more to it than first aid,” says Mitzie Walker, RN, BSN, MSHSA, MAEd, interim director of school support for Chicago Public Schools (CPS). “We serve as a healthcare liaison from the medical profession to the schools, [...]