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Phlebotomy jobs can become your way to help people and earn money
November 15th, 2011
A career in phlebotomy field is easy to start, but there are some strict requirements for workers in this profession. The occupation is rather controversial and it is due to the workload usually associated with this type of activity. Choosing phlebotomy jobs consider if you have skills required for the continued focus and self-control in the process of communication with patients, while acting in sampler.
Drawing blood appears to be easy, but only qualified specialists can do it in a relatively painless way. It is a common fact that many people have concerns with regard to blood in general and the process of blood collecting in particular. One of the main tasks of the phlebotomy technician’s position is to ensure that the patient is calm and ready for the procedure.
Young professionals in this area should be remembered that the performance of their duties must be on the highest level of confidence. The patient must be very sure that you have the required skills and are reliable in it.
Recently most health facilities have begun to require certification for phlebotomists to support the highest level of competence among practitioners. A certified phlebotomist has an adequate level of knowledge and experience for this position.
After graduation, you have to pass the comprehensive examination provided by the NPA or The National Phlebotomy Association. These exams will test your knowledge and skills in phlebotomy and other related topics. Phlebotomist classes you wish to attend will affect your job, prospects, and wage.
The education program consists of theory and practical exercises. Students in these programs would learn about various aspects of phlebotomy, including basic anatomy, psychology, biology, handling with tools, venipuncture, micro sampling, safety means and treatment of complications, among others.
Of course, the profession of a phlebotomist is named one of the most advantageous. Usually, a calendar of part-time work is very convenient for those seeking extra income or whether you want to have a little free time. It serves as one of the reasons why young people choose this way of starting their medical careers. It allows both learning the profession and earning the phlebotomy salary.
Phlebotomist average earnings may be at a competitive level compared to salaries for other jobs, however, there may be a good investment to the future profession. Your chances of getting a job are always higher when you apply for phlebotomy certification. Today, almost all medical institutions offer phlebotomy positions.
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AAA blog: Creek streak’s at 40
November 7th, 2011
While one historic streak lives, another is snuffed out. Sandy Creek won its 40th straight game, beating Butler 55-12 in the first round of the state playoffs in a game that wasn’t that close. Sandy Creek led 55-0 at the half and the second half was played with a running clock. It’s the fourth-longest streak ins tate history behind Buford (47 wins from 2001 to 2004), Parkview (46, 2000-2003) and Lincoln County (44, 1989-1991). To move up on the list, Sandy Creek would have to complete the run to its third straight state championship.
For a look at results and second-round pairings, click here.
> Meanwhile, Dalton’s chain of 51 straight winning seasons fell by the wayside in Gainesville, where the Catamounts couldn’t overcome Gainesville QB Deshaun Watson. Watson accounted for 415 total yards (275 passing, 140 rushing) and six touchdowns (four passing, two rushing) in the Red Elephants’ 47-28 win. Dalton, which forfeited four games it won on the field, finishes 4-7, likely the first seven-loss season in the history of the program, which dates back to the 1920s.
> Kudos to Region 4: In addition to Sandy Creek’s win, 4-AAA second seed Stockbridge beat Washington County 26-17 behind four touchdowns from Evan Jones and Henry County benefitted from a band is on the field! moment while beating Thomson 28-7, perhaps the most shocking result of the first round.
> Burke County flexes: Upstart Drew had seen plenty of playoff teams up close, even throttling one of them (a 31-7 win over Stockbridge). But the Titans never really had a chance against No. 4-ranked Burke County, which rolled up 532 total yards, including 179 rushing yards and three touchdowns by Donquell Green and 99 yards and two touchdowns by Montres Kitchens.
> No one has stopped Miles Jones: The Allatoona running back ran for 256 yards against Franklin County to go over 1,900 for the year and scored TDs number 24 and 25 in a game the Buccaneers trailed at halftime. The next challenger on the halt Miles tour is Mary Persons a blowout winner over Americus-Sumter Friday night.
> No passing zone: Really old-school coaches love to point out that when you pass the ball, three things can happen, and only one of them is positive. So when you’re rushing for 460 yards, as St. Pius did in its win Friday night over Shaw, why throw? QB Trey White ran for 137 yards for the Golden Lions,
> Woodward rolls: Score comparisons indicated that LaGrange had a chance to pull off a road upset Friday night, but Woodward was having none of it, rolling a 24-0 halftime lead and fending off a comeback attempt by the Grangers.
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U.S. Withdraws Support from UNESCO, Again
November 1st, 2011
The vote on Oct. 31 by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization to admit Palestine prompted the United States to announce that it is effectively withdrawing support for UNESCO.
The United States technically will remain a member of UNESCO, which works on worldwide education issues among other activities, but won’t be paying its dues, the State Department announced on Monday.
“The United States remains steadfast in its support for the establishment of an independent and sovereign Palestinian state, but such a state can only be realized through direct negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians,” State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said in the statement. “Palestinian membership as a state in UNESCO triggers longstanding legislative restrictions which will compel the United States to refrain from making contributions to UNESCO.”
The loss of an estimated $80 million a year from the U.S. to UNESCO threatens the work of the organization, which helps promote literacy programs worldwide and has worked to develop competitive media in Iraq and Egypt, among other projects, according to a statement from the Paris-based organization.
And so the tortured relationship between the U.S. and UNESCO continues.
In 2003, the U.S. rejoined UNESCO after a nearly 20-year absence. According to this EdWeek story, the United States dropped out of UNESCO in 1984 amid allegations of mismanagement at the organization, complaints about its perceived anti-democratic agenda, and criticism of the agency’s plan to monitor the press corps around the world.
Then-President Ronald Reagan, through a formal administration statement, accused UNESCO of “politiciz[ing] every subject it deals with,” and exhibiting “a hostility toward the basic institutions of a free society.”
Britain and Singapore also pulled out of UNESCO in the 1980s, and Britain returned in 1998.
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Report: Tuition up more slowly in Conn.
October 30th, 2011
A report says public university students and their parents in Connecticut can find some consolation that pricey tuition and fees are rising more slowly than elsewhere in the U.S.
The Hartford Courant reports the College Board said Wednesday that tuition and fees at Connecticut’s four-year public universities for the current school year rose about 2.5 percent. It’s among the smallest increases in the country.
Nationally, the average price for tuition and fees at public four-year colleges for in-state students increased 8.3 percent, to $8,244.
Tuition and fees of $10,670 for in-state students at the University of Connecticut is higher than the national average.
At the state’s four smaller state universities — Central, Southern, Western and Eastern — the charge for in-state students ranges from $8,055 to $8,555.
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Universities need Pepys as much as Newton
October 19th, 2011
For more than 800 years, the University of Cambridge has been a crucible of knowledge and culture. Our students and scholars – from Wordsworth, Wittgenstein and Pepys to Newton, Darwin and Crick – have contributed to society across the centuries. We value, in the widest sense, creativity and research across all disciplines.
Yet the current economic climate is encouraging many outside academia to assess universities’ impact in narrow, utilitarian terms, concentrating only on economic benefit or benefit to individual graduates and their employability. I believe that as global political and economic uncertainty increases, so does the danger of this viewpoint.
Cambridge is rightly celebrated for its innovation in science and technology – from the structure of the atom to the structure of DNA – and the university has more Nobel Prize winners than any other higher education institution in the world, in literature, economics and peace, as well as chemistry, physics and medicine. This reminds us that a university is not defined solely by science and technology but by the breadth of its mission.
And so it is essential that the full range of universities’ contributions is valued appropriately by the society we serve. The arts and humanities – which my colleague Professor Stefan Collini describes as “a series of disciplined attempts to extend and deepen understanding of human activity in its greatest richness and diversity, across times and cultures” – are an indispensable part of that contribution.
I am not alone in my concern. Reflecting on Cardinal Newman’s ideas on the role of the university, my predecessor as vice-chancellor, Professor Dame Alison Richard, observed: “The dichotomy between ‘useful’ and ‘not useful’ is itself increasingly ‘not useful’.” With an anthropologist’s view of the benefits of biodiversity, she made a powerful case for its academic equivalent: “The case for breadth centres on the proposition that the greatest challenges facing the world today are of huge complexity and global scope, best tackled by people whose education enables them to integrate different fields of knowledge and work across conventional academic boundaries.”
As we face the aftermath of one recession and struggle to avoid another, governments are, reasonably, focused on short-term financial perspectives. But as an 800-year-old academic institution and one of the world’s leading universities, Cambridge has a responsibility to take the long – as well as the broad – view.
Recent debates on higher education have focused on undergraduate teaching, obscuring the true scope and nature of universities by neglecting their research role – even though the benefit to students of being taught by those with active research careers is transformative.
To address complex questions of critical importance requires research across many disciplines and over the long term. Cancer prevention offers a good example, not least because the disease presents a complex challenge: the core problem cannot be addressed by science alone.
I trained as a doctor and spent most of my career in academic clinical medicine, studying cervical cancer. A UK-wide vaccination programme has been under way since 2008 and take-up has been excellent. But just as a safe and effective vaccine depends on the best clinical research, in a society that exercises free choice, successful take-up depends on a programme whose acceptability to patients must be informed by rigorous social science research that complements and completes the medical science.
This is not to argue that humanities and social science research exists only to serve science, technology and medicine. Understanding the causes and consequences of human behaviour is an end in itself, and there are many examples of arts and humanities research at Cambridge that bring social benefit or help illuminate pressing global concerns.
Migration and multiculturalism are two of those concerns, and in March this year, Cambridge launched a collaboration with two German universities using the latest research on German history to shed new light on immigration and guest workers.
Given that declining populations mean Western Europe as a whole must face up to a need for immigration, we should welcome the fact that historical scholarship can help inform this debate.
Closer to home, academics from the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics recently set up the Cambridge Bilingualism Network. Working in local primary schools where pupils speak dozens of languages, the Network is bringing the latest linguistic research into the classroom to help parents and teachers nurture the gift of bilingualism.
In economic hard times, who will look to the long term? Governments will not; stockmarkets cannot; businesses dare not. Instead, we must look to our universities, which by virtue of their autonomy can build the disciplinary breadth and long-term vision to discharge that responsibility.
Over 800 years we have discharged it to the benefit of Britain and the world, and we discharge it best by remaining committed to the arts and humanities. Cambridge this week is celebrating these disciplines and how they enrich all our lives, in the third annual Festival of Ideas – a showcase for Collini’s description of richness and diversity, across times and cultures.
Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz is vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge
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