Nurses sought for cardiac monitor study

By Times staff writers

© St. Petersburg Times, published June 9, 2000

NEW PORT RICHEY -- Pasco-Hernando Community College is accepting applications for a new advanced certificate program for registered nurses interested in learning how to care for patients on cardiac monitors.

Classes for the 12-credit program start June 22 and will include 56 hours of classroom work, 24 laboratory hours and 96 hours of clinical work at local hospitals. The certificate will enable nurses to read cardiac monitors and understand how medications affect heart rhythms. For more information, call the college at (727) 816-3282.

652 Oakstead homes approved without protest

LAND O'LAKES -- Oakstead developers won approval Tuesday to build the first 652 of what will eventually be 1,200 homes in Land O'Lakes.

Not a peep of protest greeted the vote of Pasco County's Development Review Committee, a contrast from Oakstead's rezoning hearing in September, when dozens of activists attacked the development.

The Oakstead proposal led to the formation last summer of Citizens for Sanity, a group of activists who complained the project would overwhelm their rural community and threaten wildlife.

A lawsuit to overturn Oakstead's rezoning ended in an out-of-court settlement last month.

Protesters agreed to drop their opposition to the project. Developer Don Buck agreed to create a wildlife corridor across the 841-acre property west of U.S. 41.

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