Career Advice Category
Top BLOG Post 2-23-2009
Here is our Top Blog Post for today, brought to you by MedReader:
- It Only Takes A Second
When you think about how many bits of personal information hospitals and other healthcare providers gather on every patient or client who comes through their doors, it’s amazing most are able to keep those bits private. A thoughtless moment is all it can take to cross that HIPAA line into uncharted and unintended territory.
So what do you do when you’re on the other side of that line?
This blog discusses an incidence where HIPPA lines are crossed and what one employee did to rectify it.
Top BLOG Post 1-27-2009
Here is our Top Blog Post for today, brought to you by MedReader:
- Sobering
That was how my week ended. My patients were doing well, fluffed and buffed, but elsewhere on the unit, there was a cloud.
No, not the “happy cloud” the instructors told people to go to in the class some of our cohorts took, but a pall of the doom you know is coming.
One patient came in and within a couple of hours got his first order of vitamin K and some more elaborate diagnostic tests. Someone was drinking a little more than they let on…
Top BLOG Post 12-4-2008
Here is our Top Blog Post for today, brought to you by MedReader:
- Unhappy Doctors Provide Roadmap for Recruiting, Retention
A just-released and comprehensive survey from The Physicians’ Foundation of more than 12,000 primary care physicians in the United States found some troubling—but not entirely surprising—results. America’s primary care physicians are very, very unhappy.
Anyone in the physician recruiting business would be advised to take a look at the survey, which was compiled this summer, because it provides a good roadmap for recruiting and retaining.
It’s about time someone wrote this blog. If we do not pay attention to what is bothering our doctors now, we may not have doctors to be bothered later. More will leave their practices, cut down on their caseload, stop seeing Medicaid/Medicare patients or will just plain find another field.
Top BLOG Post 11-18-2008
Here is our Top News Post for today, brought to you by MedReader:
- Osteoporosis Drugs May Prevent Future Bone Growth
Paul Levy (CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and health care transparency champion and CEO blogger): “Shouldn’t there be some correlation between what you get paid for doing something and the quality of what you do?”
Recruiting The Retiring Professional: Are We Missing Out?
As a healthcare recruiter, my job is to find qualified and quality persons to place as candidates in the jobs we have been requested to fill. The goal of all recruiters, in all agencies and facilities, is to complete these tasks in a timely and responsible manner.
We, as recruiters, frequently fail to consider the older persons in our professions. Nursing is an area in which the older persons need to be considered, not only for new hires, but also in retention of qualified personnel. Age should not be a factor if the candidate is both mentally and physically capable of performing the job as outlined in the job descriptions.
Nursing as a mid-career change.
A butcher, a baker, a candle stick maker, and finally into nursing we shall go, or at least for some of us that are board, frustrated, or need a change from our current line of work. The Boston Globe has a brief article regarding mid-career changes that many are looking into. Several articles about switching careers for nursing have peppered that media in recent months outlining people’s concerns with the growing poor economy and general dissatisfaction in their work. The news of the continued nursing shortage and availability of steady stable employment has been somewhat magnetizing.
Nursing: Many opportunities, but recession proof may be stretching it.
Nursing: the recession-proof job market lies across an article from CNNMoney.com. A brief bit about the opportunities in nursing and how other career professionals that are experiencing layoffs and troubled times in their present career field are now jumping ship and entering nursing.
What is the difference between Dietitian and Nutritionist? (part 2)
Again, it is based on whether there is licensure, the type of education and recognition received and, in some cases, personal preference. While a dietitian works in many capacities – in education, in public health, in hospitals, foodservice organizations and management, a nutritionist frequently uses the term to qualify his/her practice as one dealing only with the public, their diet and supplements.
Are all Dietitian’s registered?
With such a great emphasis being placed on the importance of food and nutrition in our society today, it is only natural that consumers may be confused and have questions about our titles and what we do to obtain them. There are three titles that have been queried recently: dietitian, nutritionist and Registered Dietitian. Let’s take a look at some of these questions individually. This is the first part of a three part series.
