Eating a Big Breakfast Fights Obesity and Disease

Whether you hope to lose weight or just stay healthy, what you eat is a crucial factor. The right nutrients can not only trim your waistline, but also provide energy, improve your mood, and stave off disease. Now a Tel Aviv University researcher has found that it’s not just what you eat — but when.
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What Motivates me in Nursing (interview)

I recently conducted two interviews for occupations in nursing and teaching and what keeps them motivated in their job and how to get experience in this certain field. Here are the interviews:
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Raise A Voice Against Psychological Abuse In The Nursing Homes

A number of nursing home residents tend to face acute psychological abuse on a day to day basis. Surprised? If you’re faced with the same dilemma, what kind of thoughts would run through your mind?

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More Consumers Turn to Social Media for Health Care Information

Turns out Facebook is more than just a tool to help keep in touch with old friends and keep everyone posted on your latest whereabouts. Increasingly people are using the social network to gather information about their health care, according to a study by National Research a health care research firm
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Providing information to patients improves outcomes and reduces costs

Providing information to patients and their carers improves outcomes, reduces costs and give people a better experience of care, according to a new research report.

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Getting Knowledgeable with the Wage of a Certified Nursing Assistan

CNAs (certified nursing assistants) are now in popular demand in the field of medical and healthcare. Study shows how the trend is anticipated to appear like in upcoming years bearing in mind many people are wishing to get into the career. 

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Clinical Nursing Skills Learned in Nursing School

Registered nurses (RN) must be able to perform a wide variety of nursing skills at their job. These nursing skills are usually learned while in nursing school. However, some more advanced nursing skills will be learned by the nurse while working at their nursing job. Nursing school teaches the nursing student basic nursing skills..                    
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The new old age: Two Blogs worth reading

This week, let me pass along some of the more absorbing blogs and Web sites I’ve come across recently, other corners of the online world where people are talking about aging and caregiving from very different perspectives. 

I find a blog called Watching the Lights Go Out particularly compelling. Much of what we read and hear about dementia comes from family members; a firsthand account of life with Alzheimer’s disease is much rarer....

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Easy steps limit antibiotic-resistant infections in hospitals

A low-tech approach that deters antibiotic-resistant bacteria from infesting hospital patients appears to prevent infection better than screening them for the troublesome microbes and isolating those patients, scientists report May 29 in the New England Journal of Medicine

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Nurses offered deal on premium pay rates

Working week would increase from 37.5 to 39 hours, with less pay for new nurses

Health service management have offered nurses a deal which would restore double-time premium rates for Sundays and public holidays in return for a longer working week. Under the deal the working week would increase from 37.5 to 39 hours.

New nurse graduates would be offered 85 per cent of the staff nurse pay rate in their first year and 90 per cent in the second year, under the proposal emerging from talks at the Labour Relations Commission. However, this would be on the basis of a 39-hour week.

Source: Irish Times 14th May 2013

Research Beyond Google: 119 Authoritative, Invisible, and Comprehensive Resources

Google, the largest search database on the planet, currently has around 50 billion web pages indexed. That’s a lot of information. But it’s nothing compared to what else is out there. Google can only index the visible web, or searchable web. But the invisible web, or deep web, is estimated to be 500 times bigger than the searchable web. The invisible web comprises databases and results of specialty search engines that the popular search engines simply are not able to index.

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Biomedical literature search and recommendation tool: Pubchase 

As the user saves articles to his or her library, PubChase recommends newly-published articles that are relevant to the individual. This is a free service, available on the web, iOS, or Android devices.


The heart of PubChase is not simply a pretty mobile interface to the published literature. With over 100,000 biomedical articles published each month, our hope is to enable scientists to discover new research important to them, no matter where it is published (as opposed to simply scanning tables of contents of high-impact journals, as many of us commonly do now).

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