Above: ESPN STAR Sports has signed a three-year deal with TNA Entertainment LLC to broadcast TNA Wrestling programmes in India from May 2005 and the rest of Asia from June 2005. Programming, which launched in May, includes the one-hour weekly TNA I Above: ESPN...
The Tennessee Nurses Association expresses its sincere appreciation to the sponsors and exhibitors who helped make the 2006 TNA Annual Convention such a huge success. Through their support, TNA continues to offer quality education and networking opportunities for Tennessee nurses. Gold Partner BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee Healthways...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The Tennessee Nurses Association TNA recently announced that Sharon Adkins, MSN, RN, is the new executive director for the organization. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "TNA is excited to have Sharon Adkins joining us as our new executive director! Sharon has been a member of the Tennessee Nurses...
Jonathan Norris, Producer/Director of Electravision Creative Film and Television of Nashville, with the 2007 TNA Media Award during its recent annual convention held in Knoxville, Tenn. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Norris produced a special nursing documentary, A Passion, A Profession: Nursing in Tennessee, that celebrates the history of nursing, challenges...
Carolyn Whitaker, MSN, RN, APRN, BC, FAAN, center, of Red Boiling Springs, Tenn., received the Vision of Nursing Award May 8 during the Tennessean's annual Salute to Nurses Luncheon. Whitaker, a long-time TNA member, is one of the first six nurse practitioners in the state. Sharon Adkins, MSN, RN, left,...
This year's recipient of the TNA Award for Nursing Excellence in Nursing Administration is Sandy Halford, BSN, RN, of White Pine, Tenn. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Halford has been professionally employed as a registered nurse for 30 years, beginning her career in acute care and working in Public Health for...
COLOMBO AFP ? Tamil Tiger rebels asked Sri Lanka's incoming government to open talks based on their blueprint for self-rule which had previously been rejected by President Chandrika Kumaratunga. The demand of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam LTTE was made through their proxy Tamil National Alliance TNA party...
Jennie Walls, MSN, RN, APRN, BC, of Johnson City, Tenn., is the 2007 recipient of the TNA Award for Nursing Excellence in Education. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Walls, an associate professor in the School Health Nursing Program at the East Tennessee State University College of Nursing, is also the director...
Karen D'Apolito, PhD, MSN, RN, TNA District 3, was recently inducted into the Manchester Who's Who Executive and Professional Registry acknowledging her success and professional achievements. D'Apolito is Program Director with a NNP Specialty for Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. Carol Etherington, MSN, RN, FAAN, TNA District 3, assistant...
I carefully read William Norman Grigg's immigration story ("Abolishing Our Borders," October 8th issue of TNA) with great interest. I have to assume that the story was written before the events of September 11th. Since then, the world has changed. No longer are the open borders that America has suffered...
A generation ago some Yale students made up a pledge of allegiance to the UN: "I pledge allegiance to the UN and the Peoples Democracies for which it stands, one world, under Reason, with social and economic justice for all" from National Review. With the establishment of the North...
I am writing regarding "Garrison State Overture" by William Norman Grigg in the August 26th issue of TNA. As someone who is going into law enforcement, this is a typical example of the personnel that are now being given police power. It is a felony to place a child's health...
Rebecca M. Patton, MSN, RN, CNOR, President of the American Nurses Association, will present Issues & Concerns Facing the Nursing Profession at the TNA Annual Convention on Friday morning, October 12 from 10:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. A nurse since 1980, Patton has extensive inpatient and outpatient experience. She has been...
April 25, 2008 Hilton Nashville Downtown Registration Regular registration will be available through April 14, 2008. You must register on-site after April 14 if space is available. A $40 service fee will be charged for returned checks. Meeting Attendance Only paid registrants, displaying an official...
District 1 held its 5th Annual Legislative Forum August 31. Letters and emails were sent out to more than 30 opposed candidates and others for the State Senate, House, Governor, U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representative 2006 elections. TNA District 1 wants to invite ALL NURSES in the Shelby...
The bill amending the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act FISA would allow the government to engage in massive collection of American citizens' communications without a search warrant, clearly in violation of the Fourth Amendment, is moving forward in the Senate, after having been passed by the House on June 20. In...
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia AFP — Former separatist rebels in Indonesia's tsunami-ravaged Aceh province have announced the dissolution of their armed wing in another step towards implementing an historic peace pact. The Indonesian government and the Free Aceh Movement GAM signed the pact in August in Helsinki after both sides...
Officials at Science Applications International Corp. basked in the media spotlight last week, but they acknowledge the fleeting nature of fame probably won't leave them a financial windfall anytime soon.The attention came Aug. 16 after a $1 million SAIC-designed-and-built bomb detector installed at San Francisco International Airport thwarted an attempt...