Posts Tagged ‘nurses’

7 Things You Can Do to Stay Calm Working in the ER

January 12th, 2010

Any medical job you may uphold is going to come with some level of stress. However, working in the Emergency Room holds a particularly high headache probability because of the high paced nature of the work and the variance of tasks involved. It is quite logical for you to lose your mind working there, but before you do that and turn into a patient yourself, try some of the tips below to help yourself stay calm.

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50 Nurses You Can Follow on Twitter

October 15th, 2009

Twitter has hit the scene so hard in recent years, and a bunch of different groups have formed because of that. #RNChat is a great place to find a lot of nurses to talk to, but there are countless groups on Twitter that are beneficial for the nursing community. As people use their 140 characters to talk about their day, many nurses discuss medical issues and unique solutions that they’ve discovered in their career. Here is a list of 50 different nurses on Twitter that you can follow to potentially get some insight on their medical lives.

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Google Android Applications for the Medical Field

October 5th, 2009

In a world that has been tremendously influenced by changes in various sectors of our environment, people world-wide are living in the midst of a technological revolution. These changes are intended to contribute to the betterment of our lives, as well as the ease of access to information. Information still remains as one of the most exchanged commodities that we use one a daily basis, and it will continue to be so for years to come. Gadgets such as mobile phones and the recent upgrades of them known as Smartphones have emerged lately, providing the end-user with friendly interfaces to keep the communication flowing.

Google Android, a mobile operating system handset introduced in 2007 by Google, provides a ton of handy applications for people of this century. Among the applications are some made available for Smartphone users in the medical field. Thus medical doctors, nurses or pharmacists, students and other healthcare experts could be kept up to date with the most reliable clinical applications on the market today. Tabers Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary and Drug Guide by Daviss are some of the more popular resources available, but there are plenty of others. Most of these are available for download on the internet with newer versions popping out here and there.

Listed below are some of the medical applications accessible via Smartphones running the Google Android platform.

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