| Schools, communities can work together to tighten anti-smoking rules, seminar told
Spare the rod, spoil the smoker was the message conveyed at a tobacco control seminar at UPEI on Wednesday. The presentation, which highlighted smoking patterns among youth, zeroed in on backing anti-smoking policies in schools with enforcement. Donna Murnaghan, associate professor at UPEI’s school of nursing, along with Chris Lovato, associate professor of health care at the University of British Columbia, spoke before UPEI faculty as well as students and community members on ways to keep the number of young smokers on the decline. Murnaghan said studies have shown that schools with stricter smoking policies, backed with action from teachers and the community, have a lower rate of student smokers. She said policy is not enough. "This is not a school problem," she said. "This is a community problem." Murnaghan added that banning on-campus smoking only forces smokers to move off the property to smoke, which doesn’t solve anything.
Elms to train nurse managers
CHICOPEE - Elms College's announcement yesterday that it is adding a new master of science in nursing program in January was met with unabashed enthusiasm by local hospitals, colleges and employment agencies trying to deal with an ongoing nursing shortage. The master's program will have two tracks, one in nursing and health services management and one in nursing education. "We have a nursing shortage now, and we need to educate more people to educate nurses," said Kathleen B. Scoble, chair of the division of nursing at Elms, during a press conference at Elms yesterday afternoon. Representatives from Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton, Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Springfield Technical Community College, and the Regional Employment Board of Hampden County Inc.
Hospitals snuff out smoking
The road signs, bright and conspicuous, will be posted today at all driveway entrances to Providence hospital. Outside its doors will be more signs with the polite but firm message: "This is a no smoking campus." And, in places where smokers used to huddle, near entrance-way trash cans, reminder stickers will be placed where cigarette butts were once crushed. .
Childhood Influenza Immunization Coalition Encourages Vaccination Throughout the Influenza Season
BETHESDA, Md. (Map) - BETHESDA, Md., Nov. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- To raise awareness of the need to vaccinate more infants, children and adolescents against influenza, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in conjunction with Families Fighting Flu, declared today, November 27, as the first ever "Children's Flu Vaccination Day." The National Foundation for Infectious Diseases' (NFID) Childhood Influenza Immunization Coalition commends this effort to emphasize the importance of annual influenza vaccination to protect children and their contacts from this serious and potentially deadly virus. "Influenza claims more American lives every year than all other vaccine- preventable diseases combined," said Richard H. Carmona, M.D., M.P.H., FACS, Coalition Chair, 17th Surgeon General of the United States (2002-2006), President of Canyon Ranch Institute and Distinguished Professor of Public Health, The University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health.
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