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Northern Today - June 3, 2008

Alan RobinsonRural Health Careers Camp begins Friday

The woman behind the wheel – she’s a diabetic who is not treating her condition – lapses into a high blood sugar coma and crashes her car into another vehicle.

A medical helicopter flies in to transport one of the injured drivers to a trauma center; another is whisked off to a nearby emergency room. Bones are broken, certainly, but what else is wrong? And what are the next steps once doctors and nurses have stabilized their patients?

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Brigid LuskLusk among Illinois delegation heading
to national summit on nursing shortage

The chair of NIU’s School of Nursing and Health Studies will help to represent Illinois this month at a national workshop organized to examine the nursing shortage and explore ways to expand nursing education.

Brigid Lusk is among nine members of Team Illinois, one of 18 states chosen to participate in the Nursing Education Capacity Summit, scheduled for June 26 and 27 in Arlington, Va. Preparation begins Thursday with a mandatory webinar for all participants.

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Joanne DempseyICEE director traveling to South Africa
as member of study tour on economic ed

Joanne Dempsey, executive director of the Illinois Council on Economic Education at NIU, has been selected to serve as the faculty leader for the National Council on Economic Education’s (NCEE) Study Tour on Economic Education in the Republic of South Africa in July and August.

The study tour is an activity of the Cooperative Education Exchange Program (CEEP) conducted by the NCEE with funding from the U.S. Department of Education and carried out in coordination with the U.S. Department of State.

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