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		<title>Thank you, Samantha</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My grandma, Mary Rose, passed away last Sunday afternoon in a nursing home, and was laid to rest on the following Tuesday morning.  It was a bittersweet thing to say goodbye to her.  Her health had declined rapidly over the last few months of her life, and she suffered greatly toward the end.  When the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nursingnovellas.com/2010/thank-you-samantha/</link>
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		<title>Unsung Heroes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unsung Heroes The front page of last Sunday’s Fayetteville Observer newspaper featured the story of Specialist Clayton McGarrah of the United States Army, killed at the age of 20 in combat in Afghanistan on July 4th.  The picture of his young widow standing over his casket stopped my heart for a moment.  I literally had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nursingnovellas.com/2010/unsung-heroes/</link>
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		<title>If the Shoe Fits: Red Heels for Nurses?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At a recent conference I attended, I went out to dinner one night with a group of nurse educators.  Two of them were faculty from a school of nursing, and had plenty to say about the new class of nurses that they had just graduated. “They wanted to wear red shoes to their pinning ceremony,” [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nursingnovellas.com/2010/if-the-shoe-fits-red-heels-for-nurses/</link>
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		<title>Nursing Novellas Review: Journal for Nurses in Staff Development</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Susan L. Bindon, MS, RN-BC has published a favorable review of the Nursing Novellas series in the May/June 2010 Edition of the Journal for Nurses in Staff Development. She describes Nursing Novellas as a &#8220;fresh approach&#8221; to continuing education and a &#8220;welcome change&#8221; for staff nurses and nursing educators looking for new ways to teach about interpersonal issues [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nursingnovellas.com/2010/nursing-novellas-review-journal-for-nurses-in-staff-development/</link>
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		<title>A SIGN OF THE TIMES</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CONGRADULATION, says the marquee outside of a hotel at a nearby college campus.  One has to wonder, was it an attempt at a play on the word ‘congratulations’ combined with ‘graduation?’  Or was it the handiwork of someone who fell asleep in English class a time or two and didn’t make it to their own [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nursingnovellas.com/2010/a-sign-of-the-times/</link>
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		<title>A Kinky Epiphany</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a kink in my hair that refuses to go away.  It’s a double-rippled cowlick that starts at my left temple and stops somewhere near my ear.  This kink has been with me for as long as I can remember.   In high school and college, I hovered in front of the mirror for hours [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nursingnovellas.com/2010/a-kinky-epiphany/</link>
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		<title>CityView Magazine: Nursing Novellas take a new approach to nursing education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amy Glenn Vega and the Nursing Novellas series are featured in the June/July Edition of CityView Magazine. To read the article, please click on the image or the link below. (The article starts on page 21.) http://www.epageflip.net/issue/11662/20]]></description>
		<link>http://nursingnovellas.com/2010/cityview-magazine-nursing-novellas-take-a-new-approach-to-nursing-education/</link>
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		<title>Lions and Tigers and Nurses: A Librarian&#8217;s Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are we rude? Are we critical of any one starting out?  Have many of us forgotten that we were the novice at one time?  Amy Glenn Vega, in her book Lions and Tigers and Nurses, makes me recall that I was at one time the beginner. I did not know the ropes. I was afraid [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nursingnovellas.com/2010/lions-and-tigers-and-nurses-a-librarians-review/</link>
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		<title>Community College Faculty Review: Nursing Novellas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a Registered Nurse for 28 years, I have learned to keep reading to make sure I am current in the profession. This involves using not only educational resources related to my teaching duties at a Community College, but also keeping current with my own continuing education requirements for licensure. I had seen an advertisement [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nursingnovellas.com/2010/community-college-faculty-review-nursing-novellas/</link>
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		<title>Parenting with a Straight Face</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don’t know how parents of young children do it.  My brother and his wife have opened my eyes to a very important skill that all parents must possess:  the ability to keep a straight face while delivering discipline in situations that are just downright funny. A while ago, I joined my brother, his wife, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nursingnovellas.com/2010/parenting-with-a-straight-face/</link>
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