Nursing summit

AUGUSTA – Maine nurses are hosting the seventh annual daylong nursing summit on Thursday, March 6, at the Augusta Civic Center.

Keynote speaker will be Paul McMurray, a master certified trainer in the practice of leading “Crucial Conversations” and “Crucial Confrontations,” tools for talking when the professional stakes are high.

Goals include acknowledging how the nurses’ working environments and communications supports nursing satisfaction and quality care. The summit will focus on Maine’s efforts to address the evolving nursing shortage.

More information and registration are available online at http://www.omne.org/;or call Leslie Gagne at the Maine Hospital Association in Augusta, 622-4794.

Lecture series

PORTLAND – University of New England’s Maine Women Writers Collection spring lecture series will begin Thursday, March 6, and features Elizabeth De Wolfe, associate professor and chair of UNE’s Department of History.

De Wolfe, the first of five women writers to be featured this spring, will talk about and read from her new book, “The Murder of Mary Bean and Other Stories,” from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Maine Women Writers Collection Sarton Room, Abplanalp Library at UNE’s Westbrook College Campus, 716 Stevens Ave.

The event is free and open to the public. For more information or to RSVP, contact Cally Gurley, curator at 221-4324 or [email protected].