July, 2005

Home, sweet home

This September, St. Joseph’s Hospital of Atlanta is inviting its 1,200 nursing school graduates back to celebrate the hospital’s 125th anniversary. Founded in 1880 by the Sisters of Mercy, St. Joseph’s opened the state’s first nursing school in 1900. It later merged with Georgia State University when hospital diploma programs were phased out in the early 1970s. Full Article

Camp Breathe Easy

As the pediatric supervisor at Hughes Spalding Children’s Hospital, Brenda Batts, MPH, RRT, spends most of her days caring for children with every kind of breathing trauma — from accidents to pneumonia to severe asthma. Full Article

in this issue

• St. Joseph's continues tradition of nursing excellence
• Nurse honored for military service
• Strike against strokes
• SARS is more than a headline to public health adviser
• 'In charge of the airway'
• Information technology loaded with opportunities
• Visit to U.S. opens door for Ukrainian nurses
• A century of care
• CONTINUING EDUCATION
• NEWS BRIEFS