Do You Want to Become a Nurse or Do You Want to Become a Doctor? - What is the Difference? - Careers

If you want to become a nurse you may have already heard this comment from others:

"Why don't you go to school for a few more years and become a doctor?"

Sadly this comment is directed at a lot of nursing students or even high school students preparing for their chosen career in health care. The question itself suggests the asker does not understand the definition of nursing or how the nursing profession and the medical profession differ.

There is a much larger difference between nursing practice and medical practice than the number of years spent in post secondary education. Although many people do view nurses as "junior doctors" or even as the "doctor's assistant" or worse yet the "doctor's handmaiden" these references to the nursing profession are very dated and do not reflect the reality of nursing in Canadian health care system today.

Nursing practice and medical practice share a common knowledge base but approach their professional practice from different perspectives.

If you think you want to become a doctor you should know that doctors give their attention first to the patient's diagnosis.

The diagnosis provides the direction for the medical care plan. If a patient is not yet diagnosed a physician does tests and diagnostic studies to rule out all the possible things that might be wrong and get to the specific diagnosis. This is called "ruling out".

A doctor starts with identifying a number of things that might be wrong and then conducts tests and examinations to rule out all the possibilities until there is only one diagnosis that is plausible from the test results and the patient' symptoms.

In order to do this, doctors must spend a lot of time with information such as test results, health care records, consult reports from other doctors, and even textbooks, journals and other reference material.

If you think you want to become a nurse you should know that nursing practice is wholly concerned with the response of the client. Nurses seek to gather more and more information about a client in order to better understand the interaction of the physical, environmental, social, and emotional factors contributing to the client's response.

The patient's diagnosis is information that informs nursing practice but is not necessarily the most important information that the nurse needs in order to care for the client. In order to provide care, the nurse needs to spend a lot of time with the patient and the patient's family gathering information about the patient's own individual needs and how the patient is responding to the health challenge they are experiencing.

A doctor focuses on the diagnosis that the patient has. A nurse focuses on the patient that has a diagnosis.

Nurses also provide nursing to people who have no medical diagnosis because health promotion is a huge part of any nursing practice.

So what is the bottom line in choosing between becoming a nurse and becoming a doctor?

Think of it this way...

You will want to become a doctor if you prefer to spend most of your time with information.

You will want to become a nurse if you prefer to spend most of your time with people.

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Compusive Hoarding, Cluttering and Collecting - Pathology vs Pride in the Accumulation Of Stuff - Health - Wellness

Compulsive hoarding is not collecting. A person with a hoarding disorder is often unable to perceive their mess in the same way that outsiders do.

There is no logical reason for hoarding behaviour. It is almost certainly a sign of a mental illness or at the very least an indication that there is altered brain function.

Research into obsessive compulsive hoarding disorder is starting to reveal that there may be specific brain alterations in people who hoard. Interpretation of this evidence suggests that the parts of the brain that regulate the ability to focus attention for prolonged periods and make decisions is damaged or not fully functioning in the compulsive hoarder.

In the extreme, an obsessive compulsive hoarding disorder can be defined as a psychiatric condition that compels a person to accumulate goods and disables them from getting rid of these same objects.

So how can you tell the difference between an enthusiastic collector, a clutterer, and a person with a hoarding disorder?

The answer lies in the reasons for the accumulation of stuff, the effect that the behaviour has on the person's life, and the amount of control that the individual has over the behaviour.

The Compulsive Hoarder

-compelled to constantly accumulate stuff.-the material goods accumulated appear to others be useless or of limited value.-unable to get rid of clutter. Trying to declutter creates dramatic emotional responses that the hoarder finds unpleasant and wants to avoid.-the accumulation of stuff creates cluttered living spaces that prevent the space from being used for its normal activities.-there is significant impairment in the ability to live a normal life.-does not perceive clutter to be annoying and may in fact find comfort in it.-social isolation often results from the hoarding disorder.-the hoarding behaviour continues despite the negative social, emotional, and physical consequences that result.

The Clutterer

-accumulates things almost unintentionally. "I have no idea how it got like this."-lacks organizing skills or does not apply them consistently.-may have difficulty with setting priorities.-lacks assertiveness skills such as saying "no"-does not make timely decisions.-cannot categorize and sort items in a meaningful way.-may be motivated to get rid of clutter but unsure of how or where to begin. In other words the clutterer can "see" the clutter but is overwhelmed by it.-may experience shame at their inability to control and create order in their physical space.-often has emotional attachments to accumulated objects and will use rationalizations or excuses as to why it should be kept.-may have underlying emotional issues such as depression and anxiety.

The Collector

- engages in accumulating specific objects.- regularly attains and disposes of the collected items through sale or trade, sometimes for monetary gain.- socializes with others who place similar value on the collected items.- continues with collecting because it adds value, interest, and meaning to life.- displays collected items with pride.- is often able to categorize and sort collected items with precise categories and labeling.

Clearly there are differences between collecting, cluttering, and compulsive hoarding that show the differences in the pride and pathology that can be both the cause and effect of accumulating stuff.

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Cell Phones for Kids - A Boon or Bust for Family Communication and Self Reliance - Family - Parenting

Cell phones for kids are becoming a social norm, but are you helping or hindering family communication and independence in your child when you purchase a cell phone for their own personal use?

There are many marketing messages that are used to promote the notion that cell phones for kids will improve your family life. Each message can be countered with the argument that having a cell phone may interfere rather than help your family communication and building of capacity for independence in your child.

Message #1 - keeping in touch with your children is a way to promote family communication.

The importance of communication in establishing a health family life cannot be underestimated but is talking to each other a lot the way to do this?

In actual fact cell phones for kids do nothing to improve family communication because talking a lot does not necessarily result in good communication. If you want to establish good family communication a lot more than technology is required.

What is communication exactly? Communication is about making sure you are understood and that you understand others. It has nothing to do with being able to talk to somebody whenever you like. Good communication is established by how you listen to and talk to your children, not by how often you talk.

What children really need, and want, is to be heard and understood. They need to be certain that you think they are so important that you are willing to take the time to sit down and listen to them.

Message #2 - You can feel closer and more connected as a family.

Creating meaningful relationships is actually better accomplished through face to face contact. Non verbal communication and connection with other people is extremely important in establishing true rapport and understanding.

You need to actually be in the presence of someone else to get all the nuances of what they are saying.

Message #3 Cell phones for kids help to build independence because you can let them do more things on their own and still keep track of them.

Being able to be in contact with parents all the time may actually interfere with self reliance and personal problem solving capacity. Instead of having to rely on the consequences of personal decisions your child has a constant lifeline for help, so why not use it?

Cell phones for kids act as a umbilical cord that may prevent the independent spirit and skills that are needed to be away from you.

If you are wondering if cell phones for your kids is a good idea, you might want to balance this decision with some of these negatives that come from having you instantly available to your children through the modern technology of wireless communication.

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How To Design A Website With Effective Copy - Business - ECommerce

The Jones Company was founded at the turn of the last century. Unfortunately for them, their website looks like it was written at the same time. Being in business for decades is a testament to good business practices. However, The Jones Company needs to remember it's a new century and their website should reflect that.

Writing effective web copy isn't easy. But good copy is essential to ensuring that your visitors can understand how your website works and what it can do for them.

People don't read websites the same way they read print material. There are three key characteristics that affect how web users react to online content.

Web users are active, not passive: One click and they're gone. If they don't see a reason to stay on your site, they'll leave - in as little as 15 seconds after they get there.

The longer the text, the less likely they are to read it: and the faster they'll skim it, if they bother to skim it at all.

They don't believe hype. If you want a web user to believe what you say, you have to back it up.

To be effective, your web copy must take these characteristics into account.

There are four basic questions a user has that you must answer on every page: "What am I doing here," "How do I do it," "What's in it for me," and "Where can I go next?". If your site's navigation and design doesn't make the answers obvious to even a first-time visitor, then you should use copy to explain them.

Don't count on your site's visitors to figure things out for themselves, half of them won't bother to try, and half the rest won't succeed.

Unless a visitor arrives at a particular page on your site expecting to find something to read, he or she probably won't read more than one or two lines of text. And the longer the text, the less likely he is to read any of it. Don't add long copy to any page where your visitors aren't looking for it.

The complexity of your copy matters as much as its length. Make sure visitors can understand short copy on its first reading, without stopping to think about it.

Think local. Imagine you are ready to buy something. It could be a car, a bicycle or simply a good cup of coffee. You do a Google search and realize that there is a store that sells exactly the item you want. There's one problem though...it's in another state.

This is the problem that your customers run into when they are searching for you! Local Listings solve this problem because they are only displayed to local customers - people who are searching in your own zip code or city.

Increase visibility. Consider the fact that mobile web usage has increased almost 500% from last year. You can bet most of these users are looking for services or products that are nearby. The same is true for regular computer users. If you aren't optimizing for Local Search you may be missing on a tremendous opportunity and thousands of dollars in sales.

Most SEO companies will optimize your website for your local address (if they don't, drop them and call another SEO company), but most likely they are only optimizing for the 'natural listings' and not for Local Listings. Trace Media can optimize your local listings to give you increased exposure on Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc. Traffic = Increased Conversion Rates

If you really want to take advantage of users looking for local businesses, you need to be submitted to as many local directories as possible. This will not only give you increased visibility across the web, but will also help improve your local Google ranking

So whether you have been in business for a century, a decade or a week, don't be one of those companies whose website looks like it is gasping its final breath. Instead be pro-active and give it frequent check-ups so it remains healthy and thriving.

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Stricker absent Phoenix Open - Sports - Golf

Steve Stricker, the world's second player from the United States, decided not to attend this week's Phoenix Open recently. His next game will be the WGC-CA Championship. This means that people will not see his shadow in the greens of Honda Classic next week.

Steve Stricker is the champion of this year's Northern Trust Open. It was by virtue of this victory that he surpassed Mickelson in the world rankings and became the world No.2. But in last week's Accenture World Match Play Championship, he was swept out of the green by Ross McGowan, the British player in the 64th place at the first round. Thus, he became the second top player who was beaten by the lowest ranked player. The first one is Woods beaten by Peter O'Malley from Australia in 2002.

Stricker's name had been earlier on the list announced by Phoenix Open, but finally he decided to return to Wisconsin home for two weeks' relax. The reason for which Stricker changed his idea might be that he had played in the TPC Scottsdale (TPC Scottsdale) Golf Club course 12 times. However, he squeezed into the top 10 only once and it was in 2001. Stricker did not participate in this race in the past two years. In addition, it seems that Stricker was seriously hurt by his quickly lost to McGowan in the first round last week. McGovern's entering into the top 64 might be attributed to the absentness of Woods and Mickelson. In the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club, the British managed into the 30-foot par putt in the 19th hole and permitted into the top 64 while Stricker became the seed eliminated in the 1st round.

Padraig Harrington made the same decision as Stricker. He will also rest for two weeks and then return to the United States to participate in another World Championship - CA Championship. Coincidentally, Harrington was eliminated in the first round last week's World Match Play Championship. He lost to Jeev Milkha Singh from India by 3 and 1.

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Leeds Festival 2009 Line up - Arctic Monkeys - Entertainment - Music

Arctic Monkeys Leeds Festival Tickets are an English alternative rock band from High Green, a suburb of Sheffield, England. Formed in 2002, the band currently consists of Alex Turner (lead vocals, guitar), Jamie Cook (guitar), Nick O'Malley (bass guitar, backing vocals), Matt Helders (drums, backing vocals) and John Ashton as a touring member (keyboard, guitar, backing vocals). Former members include Andy Nicholson (bass guitar, backing vocals) and Glyn Jones (lead vocals, guitar).

Their debut album Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, released in early 2006, became the fastest-selling debut album in British music history, surpassing Oasis's Definitely Maybe and remains the fastest-selling debut album for a band in the UK. Since then the band have released two more albums: Favourite Worst Nightmare (2007) and Humbug (2009).Arctic Monkeys Leeds Festival Tickets are heralded as one of the first acts to come to the public attention via the Internet (fan-based sites rather than from the band), with commentators suggesting they represented the possibility of a change in the way in which new bands are promoted and marketed.

In 2001, neighbours Alex Turner and Jamie Cook learned how to play the guitar, later the two boys received guitars as Christmas presents, the pair formed a band with Turner's schoolmates Andy Nicholson and Matt Helders. Nicholson already played bass guitar, so Helders ended up playing drums - "that was all that were left... they all had guitars so I bought a kit after a bit." According to an interview with Blender magazine, Turner was not the original singer of the band, but instead, Glyn Jones, another attendee of Stocksbridge High School, used to be the frontman. Jones said that he and Turner "were bored [after our GCSE exams] so we started writing a song about a geek in our year...", and that he left the band because he "did not have the dedication to take it any further... to me we were just a gang of kids messing around because we were bored."

Although reports suggested they named themselves after Helders' uncle's (or even father's) band, Helders later admitted that "so many people asking us that in the UK, so we just started making stories up", and that he just didn't have the heart to tell the original reporter he'd been lying.

They began rehearsing at Yellow Arch Studios in Neepsend, and played their first gig on 13 June 2003 at The Grapes in Sheffield city-centre.

After a few performances in 2003 the band began to record demos and burn them into CDs to give away at gigs, which were promptly file-shared amongst fans. The group did not mind, saying "we never made those demos to make money or anything. We were giving them away free anyway - that was a better way for people to hear them. And it made the gigs better, because people knew the words and came and sang along." admitting that they did not even know how to get their songs onto the Internet.

When asked about the popularity of the band's MySpace site in an interview with Prefix Magazine, the band said that they were unaware what it was, and that the site had originally been created by their fans. "[When we went number one in England] we were on the news and radio about how MySpace has helped us.

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Hillary Clinton Pretends to Berate Israel and Benjamin Netan Yahoo! - Spirituality - Religion

We are watching the Washington Jerusalem two step. Only the excruciatingly feeble minded would believe that Hillary Clinton is actually and truthfully berating Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu. The glaringly obvious orchestration of this week's Middle East events is being conducted by Leonard Bernstein and Itzhak Perlman. It is to throw the Arab Street a bone.

Those familiar with search engine optimization know the importance of keywords on Google, Yahoo! and Bing Crosby, aka Father Chuck O'Malley. The important keyword in this story is "1600". 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is The White House, the home of change we can believe in. A black President, the son of a Muslim, in the middle of the war on terror, is certainly change. Imagine Ayatollah Khamenei appointing Pee Wee Herman President of Iran. How about Dr. Dolittle?

Last week Joe Biden went to Israel to make peace in the Middle East.

While he was there, Israel approved 1,600 new housing units in East Jerusalem. There are already 500,000 Jews living there and in the suburbs. Israeli and Palestinian leaders haven't spoken in a year. Recently, Israeli and Palestinian leaders had agreed to hold indirect proximity talks. If you have no idea what that means join the club. Benjamin Netanyahu said that he had no idea that the 1600 houses were being approved in East Jerusalem. There is nothing on the face of this story that is remotely believable, and yet it has sent the Palestinians, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and the Quartet into absolute shpilkus mode. It is possible that it was a practical joke by a member of the Shas Party, a Jewish affiliate of the Tea Party.

In law, it is not only important that justice be done; it is equally important that justice be seen to be done. In "As You Like It", written in the sauna, William Shakespeare said, "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages... then a soldier full of strange oaths..jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, seeking the bubble reputation, even in the cannon's mouth; and then the justice, full of wise saws and modern instances, and so he plays his part; a world too wide for his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice, turning again to childish treble, pipes and whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, that ends this strange eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion, sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans (without) everything."

9/11 was the prelude to Iraq and Afghanistan. "1600" is the prelude to Iran. Our leaders have almost turned America into Weimar Germany, victims of depression, poverty, willing to fight, to go for broke. "1600" was planned for years, at Annapolis. It gives the United States the opportunity to appear even handed to the Arab League, our allies against Iran. Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton on behalf of Barack Obama are scathingly scolding Israel and Benjamin Netan Yahoo! "How dare you Jews build houses in East Jerusalem! We haven't even had time to slice the mortgages into derivatives yet! What were you thinking?!"

Oil and water don't mix. The United States, Europe, Russia and China run on oil and gasoline. Hillary Clinton has not been sleeping for the past year, but it has been hard to hear her above the drone of Health Care Reform aka The Insurance Company and Pharmaceutical Company bailout. Peace is hard to see because it is invisible. The papers don't print, "Chicago wasn't nuked today!" However, behind the scenes, (if you call winning the Nobel Peace Prize behind the scenes), President Obama, Vice President Biden, and Secretary Clinton have made incredible steps towards world peace in one short year.

In the Old Testament, the Holy Scripture of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, God said to the founder of Judaism, Abraham, "I Am the Lord who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess...Know this for certain, that your offspring (the Jewish People) shall be aliens in a land that is not theirs, and shall be slaves there, and they shall be oppressed for four hundred years; but I will bring judgment on the nations that they serve, and afterwards they will come out with great possessions. On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abraham saying, "To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt (the Nile) to the great river, the River Euphrates (the Green Zone), the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, the Hittites, (Mo the Hittite hit.239 in 1939 for the Dusseldorf Braves), the Perezzites (founders of great hotels), the Rephaim, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebbushusites." (Genesis 15: 7-21).

Nuclear scientists will tell you that nuclear world war III will be followed by nuclear winter then ultraviolet summer and the extinction of life on Earth forever. This is why the U.S. and the Soviet Union never attacked each other with nuclear weapons, because of MAD, mutually assured destruction. The problem today is that this concept has been too hard for Ayatollah Khamenei to grasp.

President Obama is about to come from behind and win like Zenyatta. Dial back a year. John McCain was saying, "Whenever I see Vladimir Putin I think of only three letter: K, G and B." John McCain was singing "Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran at town hall meetings. This was understandable given the disaster of a nuclear armed Iran. The problem was that John McCain and the Bimbo Sarah Palin were planning to attack Russia for its incursion into its own states in Georgia. Then President Obama got elected and pulled out George Bush's missiles in Poland and the Czech Republic, President Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin turned on Iran, and President Obama and President Medvedev became best friends. Prime Minister Netanyahu has been shuttling back and forth between Moscow and Jerusalem.

President Obama gave Ayatollah Khamanei every chance but he was rebuffed. Ayatollah Khamenei spit in President Putin's face. Today the bunker busters are being delivered to Israel. Hillary Clinton has been saying for a year, "I cannot believe how now all of the major players are now on the same page on Iran."

The Middle East Quartet was formed to solve the Israel Palestine problem. Right now Iran (Hamas) controls Palestine. Iran is the head of the snake controlling Palestine (Hamas), Lebanon (Hezbollah) and Iran is threatening to take all the Middle East oil. The Quartet is a foursome of Russia, the European Union, the United Nations and Tiger Woods. The quartet slammed the 1600 homes (a Tiger Slam). Two days ago Jordan's King Abdullah (one of our teammates) met in Moscow with President Medvedev. This week on Friday March 19 the Quartet, Ban Ki Moon, Hillary Clinton, Catherine Ashton, and President Medvedev are meeting in Moscow, to discuss how to divide up the Middle East Oil after Iran has been taken care of, and Israel finally has a true partner for peace - the world. Either that or we all go up in smoke. It's one or the other. Do not ever underestimate President Obama - he comes from behind like Zenyatta.

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