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Staffing Nursing Shortage Threatens Health Care
By
Molly M. Ginty
In Denver, 78-year-old Mary Heidenreich
died when a nurse who had flunked a medication competency test accidentally gave her a fatal dose of intravenous drugs.
In Wichita, Kan., 38-year-old Deedra Tolson
bled to death after an emergency hysterectomy when her nurse, busy caring for 12 other patients, failed to hear her feeble
cries for help.
In Alliance, Ohio, 30-year-old Lisa Vitale
was waiting to give birth when she felt searing pain rip through her abdomen. An overworked nurse misread Vitale's fetal
monitoring strip and failed to notice that her baby was in serious distress. Born hours after an emergency cesarean section
could have saved his health, Vitale's son suffered severe brain damage that left him unable to drink from a bottle and
required round-the-clock medical care.
All three of these tragedies struck within the past decade--and all three have been attributed to problems with nursing, a
field where 94 percent of the nation's 2.7 million workers are female.
Some 126,000 nursing positions in the United States are unfilled and ........
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 How to Have
Happy Holidays
By Coach Rinatta Paries
Here come the holidays. How are they going to be for you this
year? Will you end up stressed, tired, and overextended, emotionally and financially? Or will you end the holidays and start
the new year joyful, rested, relaxed, fulfilled, and happy? Will you spend the holidays bemoaning the fact that you are
single or that your relationship is not working or that you wish it was better, or will you use the holidays to improve your
relationship situation?
Here is my advice for a sweet, calm, nourishing holiday
season, for both singles and people in relationships.
* It's not going to be perfect................
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 Housework Gap
Closes for Dual-Earner Couples
by Caryl Rivers
and Rosalind C. Barnett
For a treat after the Thanksgiving
meal, our commentators Caryl Rivers
and Rosalind C. Barnett serve up a feast of statistics about men in
dual-earner couples. Not only are these guys doing a lot more work around
the house, they're even thinking up things to do with the kids.
(WOMENSENEWS)--The U.S. Department of
Labor has a news flash for
American women--a message they definitely did not count among their reasons
for Thanksgiving yesterday. A recent department survey tells us that the average working woman
spends about twice as much time as the average working man on household
chores and the care of children.
This is the same picture that has
been painted for a long time, of
exhausted women on the "second shift" and couch-potato men not pulling
their weight. But is it accurate? Are women really getting lazy husbands
for the holidays?
Not really.
Other findings paint a different picture........
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 Ahead-of-the-Pack
Resumes
by
Marty Nemko
These resume tips have helped my
clients find good work:
An employer usually decides whether to dump a resume within 15 seconds, so those first moments with your resume better be
good.
Make it easy to read. The busy employer is relieved to see a resume that looks easy to read: mostly bullets with just a few
words next to each, and plenty of white space.
After you’ve drafted your resume ask yourself:
· Except for any necessary jargon, could a high school student understand it?
· Even if not paying full attention, will the reader still understand what I wrote and be motivated to interview
me?..........
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