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Teacher candidate Jessica Barresi, center, holds a metal box she worked on in a welding program that is part of a teacher certification program at Roger Williams University run by Lynne Bedard, center right. Also pictured, from left, foreground: Coventry High students Brayden Assadorian (wearing ­welding helmet) and James Spencer, and teacher candidates Jennifer Ortiz, back left; Anthony Carrion, foreground center right; and Louis Petrucci, right.
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CAREER SHIFT: RWU offers path to teaching for working adults

As the COVID-19 pandemic began to race across the country, Danielle Ricci could see a nursing shortage on the horizon and wanted to find...
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Richard Gamache

PBN Health Care Heroes 2024 Health Care Administrator – Senior Care: RICHARD GAMACHE Aldersbridge Communities CEO What led you to choose health care as your profession?...

JWU opens renovated facilities for accelerated nursing program

PROVIDENCE – Johnson & Wales University dedicated a newly renovated space that houses the university’s accelerated nursing program on Aug. 31, just as the...

Providence College names Meedzan inaugural nursing department chair

PROVIDENCE – Nancy Meedzan, professor and dean of Endicott College’s Cummings School of Nursing in Beverly, Mass., has been appointed as the inaugural chair...

Salve Regina partners with PCI to provide nursing students training opportunities

NEWPORT – Salve Regina University has partnered with PC Institute for Medical Education LLC to give its nursing students and faculty learning and training...

Johnson & Wales University to launch new accelerated nursing program

PROVIDENCE – Johnson & Wales University is launching a new Bachelor of Science in nursing degree, an accelerated, four-semester program that will begin in...
HELPING HAND: John Schreiber is one of about 50 travel nurses who have been hired temporarily to fill open positions at Kent County Memorial Hospital in Warwick. The use of travel nurses at hospitals has increased because of a labor shortage. / COURTESY CARE NEW ENGLAND HEALTH SYSTEM/RYAN PICKERING

Hospitals find good, bad in hiring travel nurses

For most hospitals, employing travel nurses isn’t new: before the COVID-19 pandemic, Kent County Memorial Hospital in Warwick typically had eight to 10 travel...

New England Institute of Technology launches practical nurse program

EAST GREENWICH – The New England Institute of Technology, through its College of Health Sciences, is launching a practical nurse program that will begin...

Amid pandemic, can we find more nurses?

With a sharp increase in COVID-19 cases this fall and hospitals nearing capacity, health care workers nationwide are scrambling to save lives – at...
CAREFUL CONSIDERATION: ­Michelle Kissinger, owner of Personalized Care Coordination LLC, offers advocacy services and medication management for elderly folks living on their own, away from other family members. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Registered nurse in business of coordinating care for elderly at home

An extra set of eyes and ears, with the training of a registered nurse. That’s the idea behind Personalized Care Coordination LLC, a new...
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