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Nurse Practitioner Job in Georgia
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LastReply: Luckie
Great career opportunity for a Nurse Practitioner
in south central Georgia. Join 2 OB/Gyn physicians and 2 Nurse
Practitioners in working a 4 day work week. 10 hour days. No deliveries.
Will help round at the hospital. Clinic has also opened a Wellness Center
incorporating anti-aging and weight management programs. Negotiable salary
and nice benefit package is being offered. If you are interested in this
opportunity, please email your inquiries and CV or fax to 1-877-878-1970
attn: Jill, Please reference Job# JS8213
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Last Activity Jun 02 2011
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Started By ICUgirl
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Random thought about nurses and marriage
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I was sitting around tonight talking with the other nurses working tonight, and it struck me again how often nurses seem to be divorced, or getting divorced. Is this similar to most places? I've worked in 4 different places and everywhere I go it seems that nurses seem to have alot of trouble in their marriages. I'm in a relationship that seems to be heading towards marriage but it makes me nervous when I see these women that I know are amazing, faltering when it comes to making mariage work.
It can be nurses married only a few years to those married 15 years? Is it the stress of the job? Too little nurturing left over for the husband/family, or is it unsupportive husband/family? Makes me curious. I know it prob differs from situation to situation, but there is a high incidence of divorce.
Any way, it's almost the end of my shift and i'm on an interventional unit with two walkie talkie patients so i have the luxury of posting this  have a good day!
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Last Activity May 20 2011
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ANCC or AANP Certification
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LastReply: BoardMgr
OK, I'm sure this has been discussed before but I'm
looking for some more recent updates. I am completing an ANP program in May
and its time to decide what certification exam to take. Of
course the school is pushing the ANCC because that's what their ciriculum
is based on. I've heard th exam content is similar. What are the
advantages/disadvantages of one or the other. I know there's some
difference of how you sign credentials (APRN-BC versus ANP-C) but what
else? Thank you for you input.
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Pediatrics/RNs $60/Hour Reg $90/Hour Ovt
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The most vulnerable patients depend on you and you deliver. At FASTAFF we
understand that highly specialized Pediatrics or PICU RNs should be earning
the best pay available. That's why we offer the best pay and assignments to
the best nurses, just like you. FASTAFF offers Peds and PICU travel nursing
opportunities at some of the most challenging facilities across the country
where you will learn n... View Full Job
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job posted Nov 12
2009
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PART TIME RN
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Part- time RNs needed at Lakehaven Nursing Home.
Position benefits including Health Insurance, Vision, Dental, 401k and
competitive salary. Apply at Lakehaven Nursing, 410 E. Northside Dr.,
Valdosta, Ga. 229-242-7368
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Last Activity Nov 17 2009
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Giving babies Tylenol may blunt vaccines' effect
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Just something to think about: From Yahoo News
Giving babies Tylenol to prevent fever when they get childhood
vaccinations may backfire and make the shots a little less effective,
surprising new research suggests.
It is the first major
study to tie reduced immunity to the use of fever-lowering medicines.
Although the effect was small and the vast majority of kids still got
enough protection from vaccines, the results make "a compelling case"
against routinely giving Tylenol right after vaccination, say doctors from
the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
They wrote an
editorial accompanying the study, published in Friday's issue of the
British medical journal, Lancet.
The study only looked at
preventive use of Tylenol — not whether it is OK to use after a fever
develops.
Tylenol or its generic twin, acetaminophen, is
widely recommended as a painkiller for babies. Many parents give it right
before or after a shot to prevent fever and fussiness, and some doctors
recommend this. The CDC's vaccine advisory panel says it is a reasonable
thing to do for children at high risk of seizures, which can be triggered
by fevers.
However, fever after a vaccine isn't
necessarily bad — it's a natural part of the body's response. Curbing
fever, especially the first time a baby gets a vaccine, also seems to curb
the immune response and the amount of protective antibodies that are made,
the new study found.
It was led by military and
government scientists in the Czech Republic and was done at 10 medical
centers in that Eastern European country. It involved 459 healthy infants,
9 to 16 weeks old, who were getting vaccines against polio, pneumonia,
meningitis, whooping cough, tetanus, hepatitis and other childhood
diseases.
Half were given three doses of Calpol, or
paracetamol — a Tylenol-like brand sold in Europe — during the first day
after vaccination. The others were given nothing besides the vaccines.
Babies given the painkiller were significantly less likely
to develop a fever — 42 percent versus 66 percent of the others — and very
few in either group developed a high one.
However, lower
rates of protective antibody levels from several vaccines were seen in the
group given the drug. Levels remained significantly lower in this group
after booster vaccines, given when the babies were 12 to 15 months old.
Next, the researchers looked at 10 other vaccine studies and
found some supporting evidence that using Tylenol to prevent fevers at the
time of vaccination may curb immune system response rates. The same may
not be true of using the drug to treat fevers after they develop.
The research was sponsored by Belgium-based GlaxoSmithKline
Biologicals, which makes all the vaccines used in the study. Some authors
have financial ties to the company, including owning stock in it, and
Glaxo had a role in reporting the results.
Even with the
fever-lowering drugs, more than 90 percent of children in the Czech study
achieved protection from the various vaccines after the booster dose, so
the effect of lower levels of antibodies on any individual might be small,
Dr. Robert Chen and two other CDC doctors wrote in an editorial.
Yet the consistency of findings from other studies makes "a
compelling case against" routine use of fever-lowering medicines during
immunization, they write.
It's not known if Tylenol or
other painkillers might reduce vaccine response in adults, but they are
less likely to develop a fever after vaccination or to be so bothered by
it, said Dr. John Treanor, a vaccine specialist at the University of
Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, N.Y., who had no role in the
study.
Tylenol is the only member of the family of
over-the-counter pain relievers that is not a nonsteroidal
anti-inflammatory drug, or NSAID.
"There's been
speculation for a long time that the use of NSAIDs might have an effect"
on antibody production after vaccination, but this is far from proved,
Treanor said.
Given that so few children develop high
fevers after vaccines, skipping the meds unless fever develops "may be the
way to go," he said.
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