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Nurses to "Akeelah and the Bee":
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C-O-L-L-E-G-E to become nurses
Baltimore, Maryland, June 8, 2006 -- Nurses have slammed "Akeelah and the Bee", for its recent depiction of nursing as a dead-end job for flunkies who can't hack college. Sandy Summers, executive director of the Center for Nursing Advocacy. education empowerment movie
See our full review of "Akeelah and the Bee".
The Center for Nursing Advocacy, founded in 2001, is a Baltimore-based non-profit that seeks to increase public understanding of the central, front-line role nurses play in modern health care. The focus of the Center is to promote more accurate, balanced and frequent media portrayals of nurses and increase the media's use of nurses as expert sources.
For more information, please contact:
Sandy Summers, MSN, MPH, RN
Executive Director
The Center for Nursing Advocacy
203 Churchwardens Rd.
Baltimore, MD, USA 21212-2937
office 1-410-323-1100
fax 1-410-510-1790
cell 1-443-253-3738
ssummers@truthaboutnursing.org
www.truthaboutnursing.org
Educate the world that nurses save lives!
