In an effort to increase the number of working nurses during a time when nursing quotas in hospitals around the country are continually going unfulfilled, the Connell School of Nursing offers an RN Refresher Program. The program is an intensive, three-month process designed to help nurses transition back into the workforce after a lapse. The unique program was featured in the Boston Herald, which praises the program's curriculum and mission. In recent years, the program's demographics have drastically shifted from catering to middle-aged people who had been out of nursing for over a decade to a near majority of students in their thirties and forties.
ON CAMPUS
BC Center for Retirement links widows to poverty levels A recent study by Boston College's Center for Retirement Research highlighted an alarming trend among retired widows falling into poverty. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 80 percent of women live longer than their spouses; in fact, women outlive their husbands by an average of 14 years. Despite these numbers, men have historically done little to provide enough to prevent their widows from slipping into poverty. While old-age poverty has fallen significantly since the start of the century - poverty numbers are down by two-thirds - nearly three out of 10 widowers over the age of 65 are poor or are nearing the poverty level, according to the study.
UNDER REPORTED
70-year-old man robs bank with rusted 50-year-old gun After one too many bank robbery movies, a 70-year-old man decided to try to solve his financial problems by robbing a bank in quite an usual way. Armed and loaded with a grocery bag, a bandanna, and a rusted 50-year-old handgun, which was not operational, the man attempted to rob a Pennsylvania bank out of financial desperation, he later told police. The man has no criminal record, and was quick to apologize for the robbery when he was tracked down by the police. He also expressed his desire to apologize to the bank teller he stuck up. Despite his apologizes, the elderly man is in a county prison charged with federal bank robbery charges.
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