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Student Debt Forgiveness
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If you live in South Carolina, you can earn debt forgiveness for getting a nursing graduate degree if you’re willing to teach after graduation. State legislators have approved $10 million to forgive between $30,000 to $90,000 in tuition loan debt for nursing students in graduate-level nursing programs who go on to teach nursing. The amount forgiven depends on the degree they earned and the number of years they teach—two years of teaching for a year of reimbursement.
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Coworker Assaults
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After more than 40 years of nursing, 72-year-old Sybil Garbow lost her nursing license and was ordered to serve six months in jail for assaulting a coworker with a dangerous weapon. But Garbow, who is Black, says she acted in self-defense when she hit colleague Devlin Stitt, who is white, with an aerosol can after
Stitt hit Garbow with a telephone. The ruling has garnered a strong response from nurses on social media.
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Long Covid Despite Negative Test
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They tested negative for Covid-19 but developed the symptoms of long Covid and had the antibodies showing they’d been infected. Those are the findings of a small new study from the Neurology, Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation journal. Though the study only looked at 29 patients, its results
raise questions about how many people might be suffering from long Covid without realizing they ever had Covid in the first place. A STAT story looks at what this might mean.
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