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Squirreling the creature home in her backpack, she assuages its hissing-and-squawking terror with some simple nursing, then decides the right thing to do is reunite her new friend with its family.

Despite the hardships, Ridge became a certified nursing assistant and found a job as a part-time morgue attendant at Highland Hospital in Oakland, one of the five hospitals run by Alameda Health System.

"We are short of about 500 staff of all types - psychiatrists, psychologists, nursing staff - so it is very difficult to meet these targets," she said.

His attorneys have argued that due to his cognitive decline he should remain in an Orange County nursing home rather than be sent to prison.

On Thursday, the university said plans to close its nursing department were on hold and fewer jobs would be scrapped across the institution than it had initially anticipated.