Posted by Samantha Reno on May 28, 2010
If you are a nurse or if you have earned a degree in hospital administration, or if you simply want to find a hospital career, where would you look? Hospital job sites are great places to start, but you might want to look at some hospital career pages as well — sometimes you can learn more about available jobs and what is entailed in those hospital careers through the latter sites. We’ve compiled a list of 25 hospital jobs sites that includes both options, and each link leads directly to a page where you can begin your job search. [click to continue…]
Posted by William Lim on May 10, 2010
- FitRoid
Fitroid helps you plan, organize, and chart your workouts and nutrition schedules in very detailed ways. Workouts can be configured by muscle using the extensive database of exercises and how-to pictures. The nutrition database has over 7500 foods, making it easy to track what you’re eating.
- FatSecret Calorie Counter
The Calorie Counter Android app by FatSecret is also a food and exercise diary. There’s a quick search for calorie and nutrition information about foods, a barcode scanner for nutrition labels, and a food and exercise diary to help you keep track of intake and calories burned.
- Absolute Fitness
The Absolute Fitness app is another food and exercise tracking program with a calorie counter, food diary and exercise diary. But, unlike the other nutrition apps, it takes into account factors other than calories eaten versus calories burned through exercise. You can track workouts and other physical activities as well as the amount of sleep you’ve had and the amount of water you’ve consumed.
- CarbsControl Carb Tracker
For those counting carbs rather than calories, the CarbsControl Carb Tracker is the perfect app. Containing carb counts and nutrition information for 80,000 items, including fast food places and restaurants, this tracker makes low-carb diets easy.
- Easy Diet App
With a name like Easy Diet App, you know you want it. In 3 days you are guaranteed to lose weight if you do what your cell phone tells you to do. The app not only gives you a diet plan, but a shopping list telling you exactly what you need. There’s also a Twitter part to the app so you can tell your friends exactly how much weight you’re losing.
- Weight Points Calculator
Some of us don’t count calories or carbs – we count points. And to help us do that, there is the Weight Points Calculator which takes into account calories, fat and fiber, and spits out point numbers that are compatible with Weight Watchers. How many points have you had today?
Posted by Samantha Reno on April 23, 2010
A career as a hospital administrator is exciting, fulfilling and demanding. The hospital administrator, like the doctor or nurse, plays a huge role in saving people’s lives, but the administrator doesn’t need a scalpel. You might discover from the current blogs listed below that hospital administrators assist their medical staffs, have a hand in local publicity, technical issues and usually has a broad knowledge about health care business, policy and law. These top 50 health administration blogs provide resources for those topics. [click to continue…]
Posted by Katie Charleson on April 20, 2010
One of the important things to understand when working in hospital administration is the importance of information technology. There are a number of healthcare IT professionals that help keep things running smoothly in hospitals and health systems all over the country.
If you are a healthcare IT professional, or hospital administrator looking for a little more information about IT, you can take open courseware classes to help you stay up to date. Here are 50 great open courseware classes for healthcare IT professionals.
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Posted by admin on February 26, 2010
Finding the right hospital for you is linked to finding the best treatment option for you. The right hospital would ideally be one that not only has a good record in successfully treating conditions but doing so at reasonable costs; and if such a hospital is close to where you stay, then you should consider yourself lucky. Of course, if you were truly lucky you wouldn’t be getting admitted to a hospital in the first place. Looking up a good hospital is an activity best done when you’re not pressed to make a quick decision. In other words, do it now when your condition is under control or you are relatively healthy. If a situation arises, you will not be in a position to take a rational decision giving due consideration to all factors.
Here we discuss five ways you can find a hospital that is right for you –
1. The first thing to keep in mind is that it is not only about finding the right hospital; you have to decide whether you actually should be going there. For example, in an emergency situation such as a premature birth or a stroke you cannot waste time traveling to a better-known facility that is further away as compared to the clinic that may not be that well-known, but given the situation that is where you will go. Finding the right hospital is a lot about finding a good hospital near you.
2. Finding the right hospital basically entails asking a lot of questions. Know the right questions to ask. The questions need to revolve on your condition, the hospital’s record in treating the condition, costs involved, if your insurance company covers the costs, and if there is any travel involved. The hospital’s environment, cleanliness, fee structure, patient access to information should be considered. You should look up information on specialist doctors that will be in charge of your case. The internet is a great repository for answers to these and other similar questions. A hospital’s website will also have an FAQ section, if your query is not answered there, you should email them or get in touch with them telephonically.
3. As mentioned earlier, the hospital has to be a good fit for your condition. Special situations such as various forms of cancer and childbirth are two very good examples of situations in which people are most likely to look for the best care and treatment possible. Nursing homes and hospitals have made great advances in making labor as smooth as possible and cancer is now eminently curable; several hospitals specialize in treating this once-dreaded condition. Non-profit organizations such as Consumers Checkbook and government resources such as Hospital Quality Compare inform you on quality of hospitals and also let you compare hospitals on various parameters.
4. Listen to advice. Every once is a while it happens with a family that the treatment of a loved one does not progress as it should. It is sufficient to distract everyone in the family. At such times, you should have a frank talk with the concerned physician and more importantly with your family doctor. These two people are best placed to advice you on whether to continue treatment at the present location or move to another hospital; with their professional knowledge, they will even be able to tell you about the best hospital to go to, given the patient’s condition and financial situation.
5. The hospital association of a state can answer a lot of questions that you may have. In America, the Joint Commission accredits hospitals; in many states the accreditation offered is a pre-condition for licensure. It is thus a badge of quality and you can expect the hospital to be up-to-date with policies, procedures, and standards related to healthcare.