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HELP ON THE WAY? Nurses Leah Kosteva, foreground, and Mary O’Reilly prep a room at Rhode Island Hospital. The state has reentered the Nurse Licensure Compact, which would allow nurses to work in multiple states without obtaining a new nursing license in each of those states. Joining the compact may assist the recruitment of nurses to Rhode Island. 
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R.I. reenters Nurse Licensure Compact to stave off potential hospital staff...

After seeing what the shortage of health care workers did to Rhode Island hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic, the state decided to reenter the...
PURSUING HER PASSION: Cynthia Long-Ratteron began baking professionally last fall when she launched Cynthia’s Cottage Kitchenfrom her home in Jamestown.
PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

Long-Raterron shares love of baking through Cynthia’s Cottage Kitchen

Though her professional background is in education, baking has always been part of Cynthia Long-Raterron’s life and after finding herself drawn to cooking and...
Dr. Nadine Hewamudalige / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Five Questions With: Dr. Nadine Hewamudalige

5Q: Dr. Nadine Hewamudalige | Vice president and chief medical officer, The Providence Community Health Centers Inc. 1. What are your priorities in your...

The best use for pandemic aid?

Gov. Daniel J. McKee’s $13.7 billion fiscal 2025 budget recommends “reprogramming” $51.7 million of the roughly $700 million in unspent State Fiscal Recovery Funds...

To Savor: Expand your wine horizon

I just returned home from a trip to Piedmont, Italy, a northern region that borders France and Switzerland. Piedmont is also renowned for its red...
Saurabh Bagchi

Reining in AI means figuring what’s feasible

Concern about generative artificial intelligence technologies seems to be growing almost as fast as the spread of the technologies themselves. These worries are driven...
Lee Ann Rawlins Williams

Students do better when teachers get mental health support

When it comes to mental health at school, typically the focus is on helping students, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic. But as school officials...
TURNING THE PAGE: Laurie Sutherland says she always wanted to own her own bookstore, so when she saw an online ­advertisement for the sale of Island Books in Middletown, she visited the store, fell in love with it and bought the store. 
PBN PHOTO/DAVID HANSEN

Sutherland keeps Island Books’ story going strong

Whether she’s reading fictional fantasies or ­enlightening memoirs, Laurie Sutherland says she’s always loved books because of the knowledge she gains from each one. “I’ve...
Don Powers

Union Studio wins Gindroz Award for Excellence in Affordable Housing

DON POWERS is the founding partner of Providence-based architectural firm Union Studio Architecture & Community Design Inc., which recently received the 2023 Gindroz Award...

Highway out of the comfort zone

Once upon a time, a king was given two baby eagles as a gift, and he assigned a caretaker to raise and train them....
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