It happens all the time. We get to work and the charge nurse says, "We're short…we don't have enough nurses." We think, "Oh Lawd, when will this madness stop." For some, working with ridiculous nurse patient ratios every shift is the norm or busine ...
Posted Monday, October 14th 2013 at 2:32PM
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Hospital research suggests that patients who undergo surgery on... Read more, because the answer might surprise you!
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Posted Monday, October 14th 2013 at 12:57PM
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We do many things that zap the moisture out of our strands, some of it from pure laziness, some due to styling errors and others due to just plain lack of knowledge. Even the best of us make mistakes sometimes. The one thing that is most important is ...
Posted Sunday, October 13th 2013 at 6:38PM
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Here is doctors’ advice on how often to have this life-saving test… Many women have long viewed annual Pap smears as the Holy Grail of preventive medicine – The test, in which doctors scrape cells from the cervix and examine them under a micr ...
Posted Sunday, October 13th 2013 at 2:59PM
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10 Oct, 2013. We've been cleaning for more than two decades. Okay, not continuously, but let's just say we know how to use all our vacuum-cleaner attachments at this point. Over the years, we've shared our best solutions for tackling household tasks, ...
Posted Sunday, October 13th 2013 at 11:10AM
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10 October 2013 Two pastors have been killed and three churches destroyed, as militants attack yet more civilian targets in northeast Nigeria. In Borno state, a pastor was killed on September 26th when militants raided and set fire to the Church of t ...
Posted Saturday, October 12th 2013 at 11:17PM
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A waitress at a Red Lobster in Tennessee who last month uploaded a photo of a receipt on which she said a customer had scrawled a racial slur has received a $10,000 tip for her troubles.
Toni Christina Jenkins, a 19-year-old waitress at a Nashvill ...
Posted Friday, October 11th 2013 at 12:43PM
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Tyler Perry has two new shows on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) that are causing a stir among some critics. The shows are The Haves and The Have Nots, and Love Thy Neighbor. Although the shows received highly-rated debuts, some critics want the show ...
Posted Friday, October 11th 2013 at 12:56AM
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(October 7, 2013) -- The 2015 Diversity Immigrant Visa (DV-2015) program is a United States congressionally mandated lottery program for receiving a United States Permanent Resident Card ("Green Card"). The entry submission period for DV-2015 is fro ...
Posted Friday, October 11th 2013 at 12:51AM
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October 9, 2013 In 2005, the American Association of Suicidology reported that suicide was the third leading cause of death among African American youth. In that year, 1,992 suicide were committed by African Americans. Included in that number were 1 ...
Posted Friday, October 11th 2013 at 12:22AM
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October 1, 2013 The U.S. nursing industry projects that some 1 million nurses will be needed by 2016. Between now and then, hospitals nationwide will be under the gun to provide value-based healthcare through cost-effective means, while addressing si ...
Posted Thursday, October 10th 2013 at 10:45PM
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The Republican Party's approval rating has fallen to its lowest level in 21 years, says a new Gallup survey released on Wednesday. The Gallup poll of 1,028 adults, conducted Oct. 3-6, found that Republicans were viewed favorably by only 28 percent o ...
Posted Thursday, October 10th 2013 at 10:27PM
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The father of a 9-year-old boy who evaded security to stow away on a flight from Minneapolis to Las Vegas told reporters Wednesday he’s been frustrated in his efforts to get help for his troubled son. The father spoke at a new ...
Posted Thursday, October 10th 2013 at 10:00PM
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This weekend, my husband told our son and daughter about an experience he'd had at church camp as a kid. The story was very personal and described his walk w Christ. My daughter's response: "You had to go to church camp?" I can relate. My greatest ...
Posted Thursday, October 10th 2013 at 8:55PM
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Cathy and Jim had been married for almost 20 years. At the beginning of their marriage, neither of them took their Christian faith too seriously. An occasional visit to church was enough. Through the challenges of raising children, health scares and ...
Posted Thursday, October 10th 2013 at 4:11PM
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AYG chats with Dr. Monica Coleman, PhD about our her own battle with mental illness and how the faith community can and should respond. Monica, who lives with depression, is a mental health advocate who is dedicated to educating the public about th ...
Posted Thursday, October 10th 2013 at 3:33PM
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Question: What is the only U.S. state to allow its residents to cast absentee ballots from outer space?
A) Florida
B) California
C) New York
D) Texas
The answer may shock you but it doesn't surprise me though. Answer: Thanks to a 1997 l ...
Posted Wednesday, October 9th 2013 at 7:11PM
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Preceptor Conflict
Yet again, nurses have been chosen as America’s most trusted profession. Increasingly, nurses are depicted as honest, trustworthy, and compassionate. Notably, Johnson and Johnson’s campaign for nursing advertisements tug on ...
Posted Tuesday, October 8th 2013 at 4:29PM
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Just weeks after the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee made scathing remarks about IRS targeting conservative groups in their report, a high-profile instance of potential, individual targeting has come to light. Dr. Ben Carson, world-r ...
Posted Tuesday, October 8th 2013 at 4:16PM
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Former President Jimmy Carter said Monday that the income gap in the United States has increased to the point where members of the middle class resemble the Americans who lived in poverty when he occupied the White House. "The disparity between rich ...
Posted Tuesday, October 8th 2013 at 3:50PM
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This headline caught my eye: "Christians consume fewer drugs than atheists." A Swiss National Science Foundation research team found that young Swiss men who say they believe in God are less likely to smoke cigarettes or pot or take ecstasy pills tha ...
Posted Monday, October 7th 2013 at 10:46AM
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Some hospitals are not hiring new nurses, while others have reduced or eliminated the use of temporary or traveling nurses who once helped with the area's nursing shortage.
Caulk is one of the lucky ones. He is among 70 entry-level nurses hired by ...
Posted Monday, October 7th 2013 at 10:37AM
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Why Nurses’ Job Satisfaction Matters to Patients
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Posted Monday, October 7th 2013 at 10:33AM
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A new report shows that physical and sexual abuse cases are down in the United States. But, troubling statistics show that child psychological and emotional abuse cases are on the rise.
The report, which was issued on Sept. 12, was completed by th ...
Posted Sunday, October 6th 2013 at 3:17PM
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Working a 12-hour shift is challenging in any field, and nurses specifically must deal with physical, emotional and relational stressors that can deplete their energy more than many other workers.
A number of factors can also determine how taxin ...
Posted Sunday, October 6th 2013 at 3:13PM
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