Articles

Chiropractic Care - its types
Chiropractic treatment is not just restricted to improving back and the neck pain. Chiropractic care has many different forms. This treatment is concerned with the general well being of the whole body. As a result you can visit a chiropractor as often as you like to keep up your health... (more)
Dental Hygiene - A Profession in Demand
Dental hygiene is an important profession in the dental health care field. The dental hygienist is the preventive oral health-care specialist who uses her/his knowledge and clinical skills to prevent, detect, and treat diseases of the oral cavity... (more)
Quick Tips on Dental Hygiene
The importance of good oral health is a major concern for the average American. Good oral health involves the removal of plaque from the teeth and the gingiva to prevent tooth decay and gingivitis... (more)
Career Advice for Healthcare Administrators
Career opportunities for healthcare administrators are not as abundant as they are for clinicians or other medical professionals. In planning a careful career move, healthcare executives or administrators are advised to adopt a multi-pronged approach to investigate appropriate opportunities and increase their overall marketability... (more)
The Changing Face of Nursing
With people living longer today than 20 years ago, the nursing profession is struggling to keep pace with an increasingly older U.S. population. The average nurse is 43-years-old and long-term care facilities are finding it difficult to employ enough nurses to care for the elderly... (more)
Become an e-Administrator
Health services administration is a complex profession covering multiple areas of healthcare delivery. Forward-thinking healthcare leaders are constantly faced with acquiring skills that allow them to guide their institutions to higher quality care... (more)
Roads less traveled: A tour of some of the uncommon career paths in nursing
In 20-plus years of nursing, Donna Doetsch, RN, has been a traveling nurse, a home care nurse, a dialysis nurse, a burn unit nurse, an intensive care nurse and a wound care specialist. But when the Grosse Pointe, Mich., resident began feeling "burned out," she decided to revisit home care. Now, Doetsch is happily employed as co-director of an assisted living program, where she does everything from counseling families to picking out paint colors... (more)
Brave new world: In the future, nurses will need a very large tool belt
In, let’s say, 2060, give or take 30 years, a 95-year-old retired nurse ambles into the waiting area of a local nurse-run clinic. She feels terrible, she tells the receptionist. "I want to talk to a real person, not a face on a computer." He scans her medical history from a band on her wrist, then summons a nurse... (more)
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University of Phoenix
With convenient class locations as well as online learning, University of Phoenix makes quality higher education highly accessible. Whether you’re seeking an associate’s, bachelor’s, master’s or doctoral degree, we can help you reach your goal while you work—and much sooner than you might expect.
Sanford-Brown Institute - Multiple Locations
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