Planning on celebrating the July 4th holidays with fireworks? Follow these tips and you’ll be fine. Please share with your friends and co-workers.
Firework Safety Tips [INFOGRAPHIC]
Mon, Jun 29, 2015 @ 04:19 PM
Topics: safety, infographic, fireworks, july 4th, dangerous
Tips to Surviving The Night Shift Life [Infographic]
Wed, Jun 24, 2015 @ 11:59 AM
Infographic Design: Erica Bettencourt
The night shift can take a toll on you. We wanted to share some tips from other nurses on how to survive the night shift.
Topics: nursing, infographic, night shift
A Young Person's Disease
Thu, Jun 04, 2015 @ 11:57 AM
We think this video and infographic are important to get out there to anyone you know, especially the young people in your life. It’s about melanoma and the fact that it strikes young people. It’s the 2nd most common cancer in children and teenagers! Some great information and tips. Please share it.
Topics: public health, infographic, skin cancer, melanoma
A Look At The Impact Of IT In Nursing
Fri, May 29, 2015 @ 09:35 AM
The Nursing profession is in dire need of an IT upgrade. The way the nursing profession currently handles information is costing time, money, patient health and more importantly, lives. Creating an integrated health IT system will address these costs, as well as reducing errors among hospital staff and mistakes with prescriptions both when they are written and when patients obtain them.
To learn more checkout the following infographic, created by the Adventist University of Health Sciences Online RN to BSN program, that illustrates the need, benefit and impact of Health IT in nursing.
Topics: BSN, nursing, health, healthcare, RN, nurse, health care, hospital, infographic, IT, health IT, medical staff
CDC Publish Map Of 'Distinctive' Deaths By State
Mon, May 18, 2015 @ 11:31 AM
Written by David McNamee
A new, first-of-its-kind infographic published in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Preventing Chronic Disease journal maps the most 'distinctive' causes of deaths across all states in the US.
The map presents 2001-10 data on causes of death within individual states that were statistically more significant than the national averages, drawn from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) own "Underlying Cause of Death" file, which is accessible through the WONDER (Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research) website.
The largest number of deaths in the map from a single condition were the 37,292 deaths from atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in Michigan. The fewest were 11 deaths from "acute and rapidly progressive nephritic and nephrotic syndrome" in Montana.
The numbers of death from discrete illnesses varied across states. For example, 15,000 HIV-related deaths were recorded in Florida during the study period, 679 deaths from tuberculosis in Texas, and 22 people died from syphilis in Louisiana.
The most distinctive causes of death in New York were from gonorrhea and chlamydia, and the state also had the highest number of deaths from infection of female reproductive organs - mostly as a result of untreated sexually transmitted diseases.
According to the researchers behind the map, some of the findings make "intuitive sense," such as the high numbers of death from influenza in northern states, or pneumoconiosis (black lung disease) in states where coal is mined. However, some of the other findings are less easily explained, such as the deaths from septicemia in New Jersey.
What are the strengths and limitations of the map?
The map only presents one distinctive cause of death for each state, all of which were significantly higher than the national rate. However, many other causes of death that were also significantly higher than national rates were not mapped.
Another limitation of the map is that it has a predisposition toward exhibiting rare causes of death. For instance, in 22 of the states, the total number of deaths mapped was under 100.
"These limitations are characteristic of maps generally and are why these maps are best regarded as snapshots and not comprehensive statistical summaries," explain the researchers, Francis P. Boscoe, of the New York State Cancer Registry, and Eva Pradhan, of the New York State Department of Health.
Boscoe and Pradhan say that the map has been "a robust conversation starter" - generating hypotheses that they consider would not have occurred had the data been formatted in "an equivalent tabular representation." They add:
"Although chronic disease prevention efforts should continue to emphasize the most common conditions, an outlier map such as this one should also be of interest to public health professionals, particularly insofar as it highlights nonstandard cause-of-death certification practices within and between states that can potentially be addressed through education and training."
Topics: illness, health, healthcare, CDC, population, medical, patients, death, infographic, map, causes of death, states
Implementing Electronic Health Records at Healthcare Organizations
Mon, Apr 13, 2015 @ 11:26 AM
Topics: EHR, health, healthcare, medical, infographic, electronic health records
The Interspersing of Nursing: A Geographical Look at the Demand for Nurses
Thu, Jan 29, 2015 @ 02:09 PM
Nurses are an important part of the medical workforce. They provide crucial supplementary services and are primary caregivers in a lot of industries. As such, the demand for nurses is high, though there are variations according to different states. As the country’s population and access to medicine continues to grow, the demand for nurses does as well.
Source: http://online.adu.edu
Topics: jobs, demand, Workforce, nursing, health, healthcare, nurse, nurses, health care, medical, medicine, treatment, career, infographic
Men in Nursing: 5 Facts about Male Nurses – Infographic
Fri, Nov 21, 2014 @ 12:33 PM
That’s right—there are men in nursing, too! It’s time to rid ourselves of outdated stereotypes. We don’t live in a society where boys only like blue and girls only like pink. Where boys can only play with legos and girls can only play with dolls. There’s too much variety in this world to limit ourselves to what we think is expected of us. There are women in engineering and mathematics, and there are men in nursing and healthcare.
Population Growing for Men in Nursing
Nursing is a fantastic career. In fact, the number of men in nursing is growing, with the percentage of male nurses increasing almost every year. In addition, there are more men in nursing schools, making up 13% of nursing school students. Find out more facts about male nurses by reading the men in nursing infographic below.
Source: www.collegeamerica.edu
Topics: jobs, male nurse, nursing, healthcare, medical, hospitals, care, infographic
Career Paths for RNs [Infographic]
Wed, Nov 19, 2014 @ 02:58 PM
By Carly Dell
In the Future of Nursing report published by the Institute of Medicine, it is recommended that health care facilities throughout the United States increase the proportion of nurses with a BSN to 80 percent and double the number of nurses with a DNP by the year 2020. Research shows that nurses who are prepared at baccalaureate and graduate degree levels are linked to lower readmission rates, shorter lengths of patient stay, and lower mortality rates in health care facilities.
What does the job market look like for RNs who are looking to advance their careers?
We tackle this question in our latest infographic, “Career Paths for RNs,” where we look in-depth at the three higher education paths RNs can choose from to advance their careers — Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Master of Science in Nursing, and Doctor of Nursing Practice.
For each career path, we outline the various in-demand specialties, salaries, and job outlook.
Source: onlinenursing.simmons.edu
Topics: nursing, health, healthcare, RN, nurses, medicine, infographic, careers
Super Food Super Guide for Super Seniors!
Wed, Sep 24, 2014 @ 11:11 AM
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Topics: mental health, physical health, foods, nutrients, health, seniors, infographic