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Three Ways New Nurses Can Beat the Recession
Online Nursing Education Digest | December 5th 2009 by Sashi Rouhani
The web is teeming with dire reports of mass layoffs and rocketing unemployment rates. Although nursing may not have been hit as hard as other professions, it’s still scary to contemplate the recession-pocked job market that awaits after gradu read more
Astrological Guidence For Careers by planet:-
Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism | December 5th 2009 by Dr.S.Suneel
In Astrology Tenth house is house of Profession, Career. Planet who established Relationship with tenth house indicate suitable subject for careers. Sun: authority,politicians,scientists, leaders,directors,government employees,doctors, jewelers Moon: read more
I got your Florence Nightingale right here.
Life According To Candice | December 4th 2009 by Candice
That's right kids, it's been a while since I've done a stories from the "office" post, but here it goes in no particular order. First of all, I think it's cool that we get to listen to music all day at work. However, listening to Christmas music for read more
Staff Nurse
india jobs | December 4th 2009 by kishorsinh
Experience:2 - 7 Years Location:Delhi, Delhi/NCR, Ghaziabad Compensation:NEGO. Education:UG - B.Sc - Nursing,Diploma PG - M.Sc - Nursing Industry Type:Medical/ Healthcare/Hospital Role:Nurse Functional Area:Healthcare, Medical, R&D Poste read more
Nursing
india jobs | December 4th 2009 by kishorsinh
Job Description staff nurses with minimum exp required: 1 year Desired Profile GNM / B SC NURSING Experience 1 - 6 Years Industry Type Medical/ Healthcare/Hospital Functional Area Healthcare, Medical, R&D Education UG - B.Sc - Nursing P read more
all about Advanced Practice Nursing Careers
JobRadio.fm | December 4th 2009
This week on the healthcare Jobcast (#20) Andrea talks about Advanced Practice Nursing Careers (download mp3) 3 min Advanced practice nurses are some of the highest earners in the nursing field, and also have some of the most in-demand skill sets. I read more
Nursing Tutors/Teachers(Female only)
HOT JOBS VACANCY | December 4th 2009 by Joe
Position Vacant: Nursing Tutors/Nursing Teacher( Female Candidate only ) Organization Name : A3 Institute of Professional Studies Description: Responsible to design the course curriculum for starting Certificate & Diploma course in Nursing an read more
A Definition of Nursing
MEDICAL - MEDICAL CARE | MEDICAL EQUIPMENT | MEDICAL DICTION… | December 4th 2009
This definition of nursing is expressed in the form of a “core” supported by six “defining characteristics”1. It is important to recognize that nursing is the totality: while some parts of the definition are shared with other health care prof read more
Mary Martinez speaks about the Target breastfeeding incident
Crunchy Domestic Goddess | December 4th 2009 by Amy
Earlier this week I wrote about the police being called on a breastfeeding mom in a Michigan Target store. Mary Martinez and her husband Jose were shopping in a Harper Woods, Mich., Target store, where Mary was nursing her 4-week-old baby girl in th read more
Information that is important to nurses
Nursing Notes | December 3rd 2009 by Shirley Williams
Image via Wikipedia Here are excerpts from three articles about issues affecting nursing today. HIPAA is a biggie! Here is an article about what happens when you don’t follow the HIPAA regulations; violence in both the workplace and read more
It burns me
Badinage | December 3rd 2009 by Diana Mican
I checked with Cindy(new nurse) before leaving the station tonight. “You need any help?” “Just finishing my charting tonight.” “Ok, see you later.” Twenty minutes later I get a somewhat frantic call from Cindy. read more
parting time
twinsanity | December 3rd 2009 by ruby
Yay! Today will be my last day of being a volunteer nurse here in our place. I’m quite happy and sad at the same time because I’ll be missing my co-volunteer nurses and staff nurses because they already been part of my life. Well, parting read more
Things You Should Know About a Nursing Career
The Nursing Online Blog | December 3rd 2009 by Denise Chan
Nurses are in the business of saving lives. Although they do not perform surgery, they work hand in hand with doctors and other experts so that the patient may recover. Sadly, there is a shortage of such professionals in the industry. If you don̵ read more
Recession-Driven Cuts Threaten Efforts To Expand Adult Day Care
Nursing Notes | December 2nd 2009 by Shirley Williams
Image by Getty Images via Daylife This article should cause you to be very worried. With the recession, more and more people are struggling to live a life that matters. When cuts begin to affect the very programs that provide hope and ca read more
Carehomejobs.com - the first jobs board to take the nursing home…
That's Health | December 2nd 2009 by Thats News
The official launch of Carehomejobs.com (http://www.carehomejobs.com) is due in January 2010. It’s been live in beta version for just over a month. And yet it already has a few thousand jobs for carers, managers and registered nurses in care homes read more
Baby smothered on airplane: Is breastfeeding to blame?
PhD in Parenting | December 2nd 2009 by Annie @ PhD in Parenting
Yesterday the Associated Press issued a news report called Breast-feeding mother smothers baby on jet. I was profoundly disturbed by this article, for several reasons: First, anytime a baby dies it is a tragedy. I’m sure the mother is devastat read more
With Shortages of Nurses toward a Method for Identifying Faciliti…
MEDICAL - MEDICAL CARE | MEDICAL EQUIPMENT | MEDICAL DICTION… | December 2nd 2009
In 2004, the Health Services and Resources Administration (HRSA) issued a Request for Proposals for a two-year research project to gather information and insights in support of the development of a new methodology for identifying health care faciliti read more
Breastfeeding Is The Best
Aphrodite: My So Called Life! | December 1st 2009 by Madame Apro
Like what I've promised, I want to share my second birth experience. I completely agreed that mother's milk is the best food for my baby. I breastfeed my little one using breast pump. I produced plenty of milk that makes my baby stuffed. He got the c read more
In Hospice, Care and Comfort as Life Wanes
Nursing Notes | December 1st 2009 by Shirley Williams
This article is the beginning of a series I want to post about the impact and effects nurses can have in different settings. This particular article is about the hospice nurse and how hospice nursing can give a patient and the family a way to end l read more
Healthcare Degree Programs at American Sentinel University
Degrees in Healthcare: Information and Reviews on Online Hea… | December 1st 2009 by Johnson Wang
With the health care industry leading the job market, it's no wonder that high school graduates and adult learners alike are choosing the health care field as the direction for their higher education. Sometimes schedules are too crammed with full-tim read more
Major buzzkill
pretty*swell | December 1st 2009 by Suzanne
(This is part of the Belly to Butterfly series, written by my sis Laura.) I hate to be a stereotype, but I’m not very good at math. I’m a big picture kind of gal and never really got how math could be a part of my life. Of course, now, I wish I read more
Nurses: An Important Part of the Healthcare Community
Your Health Care Tips | December 1st 2009 by Bahadırhan
A nurse is a health care professional who is engaged in the practice of nursing. Nurses are men and women who are responsible (along with other health care professionals) for the treatment, safety and recovery of acutely or chronically ill or injured read more
How to Get Medical Jobs: Requirements and Career Path of Occupati…
Physical Therapy Aide Jobs and Physical Therapy Books. | December 1st 2009 by tom delaney
Many people interested in a medical career are often not aware of the field of occupational therapy. A career as an occupational therapist is both personally and financially rewarding. Occupational therapists help patients with a wide number of condi read more
Police called on Breastfeeding Mom in Michigan Target Store
Crunchy Domestic Goddess | December 1st 2009 by Amy
Photo credit: The Mothers Milk Marketing Board It’s been a while since I’ve heard a report of a woman being harassed about breastfeeding in public or told it’s illegal and I hoped that meant that the people of the world were wising read more
Nursing Homes The New Five-Star Quality Rating System
MEDICAL - MEDICAL CARE | MEDICAL EQUIPMENT | MEDICAL DICTION… | November 30th 2009
The Nursing Home Compare website now features a system that assigns each nursing home a rating between one and five stars. Nursing homes with five stars are considered to have above average quality compared to other nursing homes in that state. Nursi read more
Device spells doom for superbugs
Nursing Notes | November 30th 2009 by Shirley Williams
This is an exciting article. I am so interested in this research. Anything is an improvement that will make nursing and patient care safer. Right now in our hospitals and out in our communities, we have a stew of superbugs brewing. These are read more
Activities of Daily Living ADLs and Hodges' model [1]
Welcome To The Quad - Hodges model | November 30th 2009 by peter jones
The Hodges' model matrix below lists some basic Activities of Daily Living. The intention is to read the table as per the numbers. In 1. - the sciences domain - is a list of basic ADLs, this represents my classification of 'where' these ADLs live wi read more
Getting Your Body Back After Pregnancy
Mom's Blog - The World of Motherhood | November 30th 2009
You have just spent nine months creating a new life. It’s during that time period your body deposited fat behind your shoulder blades, on your hips and in your butt in preparation for nursing. Your abdomen expanded to at least three times its read more
Text Paging Health Information
Dr. Wes | November 30th 2009 by Westby G Fisher, MD
I saw this in a recent nursing note:Urine noted to be bloody without clots.Text message sent to 2290 (trauma pager) about hematuria.Patient denies any pain at this time.No doubt patient identification or their room number, was sent to identify the pa read more
Going Into Private Practice as a Nurse
Online Nursing Education Digest | November 30th 2009 by Sashi Rouhani
Burned-out nurses cite many reasons for quitting: stress, lack of respect from other health care professionals, and poor working conditions are a few of the most common. Rarely do nurses say that they just got bored with nursing or that they stopped read more
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