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Mary Ruff-King is a 15-year veteran medical transcriptionist who loves to write articles about medical transcription, nursing, forensics, the health field in general, and other topics of interest.
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- Medical Transcription From Home - What You Need to Excel and Succeed
[Home-Based-Business] Medical transcription from home may or may not be for you. A 15-year veteran MT tells you what you should know about yourself before you even consider medical transcription from home.
- Stop Your Sleep Apnea With These No-Cost Solutions
[Health-and-Fitness:Sleep-Snoring] If you suffer from and need to stop sleep apnea, this article is something you should read now, right now. Here's why.
- Sleep Apnea in Truckers - Hidden Danger on the Highways
[Health-and-Fitness:Sleep-Snoring] Sleep apnea in truckers is at epidemic levels. It should certainly not be ignored or viewed as a stigma. This is a serious problem that affects us all, either directly or indirectly, and needs to be addressed immediately. New solutions to the testing, diagnosis and treatment of patients suffering from sleep apnea, whose occupation puts them on the road every day, needs to be implemented across the country.
- Two Surgical Sleep Apnea Solution Options
[Health-and-Fitness:Sleep-Snoring] Millions of people are desperate to find a sleep apnea solution, even if it involves surgery. Two such surgical options, the Pillar Procedure, and Genial Bone Advancement Trephine (GBAT) are described in this article. Considering that people who have sleep apnea have a higher mortality rate than those who do not, this is important information to read.
- Sleep Apnea and the Heart - What's Blood Got to Do With It?
[Health-and-Fitness:Sleep-Snoring] Sleep apnea and the heart are related in a delicate, biological dance that affects the quality and length of our lives. It behooves all of us to pay attention to this relationship so that if we ever develop sleep apnea symptoms we can quickly address the problem and remedy it.
- Sleep Apnea CPAP Machines Suck!
[Health-and-Fitness:Sleep-Snoring] Although a great antidote for sleep apnea for some, sleep apnea CPAP machines are not for everyone. There are major drawbacks users discover, much to their dismay, when they first start using these machines. Read this article to discover for yourself just how problematic sleep apnea CPAP machines are to use and maintain.
- Accelerated Nursing Programs - It's a Sign of the Changing Times
[Reference-and-Education:College-University] Accelerated nursing programs are being offered at universities to deal with the dramatically increased need for nurses. Currently there is a shortage of experienced, skilled nurses that is expected to increase within the next few years, a result of the aging population of Americans, which also includes nursing staff. This problem is not unique to America; it is a global problem which many people now recognize as widespread and dangerous to the overall healthcare system.
- Medical Transcription Training on a Budget
[Business:Careers-Employment] Medical transcription training can be obtained in many ways. It does not have to be expensive. With a little creativity on your part, you can get the majority of your MT training for little to no money. This article presents some ways for you to get this training on the cheap.
- Medical Transcription Jobs - An MT Sounds Off About Outsourcing MT Jobs
[Business:Outsourcing] Medical transcription jobs are on the rise and will continue to be for the next decade, largely due to the aging baby-boomer population and the special medical treatment and care they will require. Couple that with the fact that the average age of medical transcriptionists is now 55, one can see that a shortage of medical transcriptionists will soon become a critical issue. But wait: It is no secret that a lot of medical transcription work is being outsourced, sent overseas to India and the Phillipines.
- Medical Transcription Rates - The Good, the Bad, and the Downright Ugly
[Business:Careers-Employment] Medical transcription rates vary and can include being paid by the hour, page or line, depending on where you work and what type of medical transcription work you are doing. This article offers insight into the different medical transcription rates and the factors influencing them.
- Medical Transcription Salary Tips to Dramatically Increase Your Income
[Business:Careers-Employment] Your medical transcription salary will be directly proportionate to what you know and are able to do in the medical field. Here are some pointers that should help you increase your knowledge and vastly improve your income throughout your medical transcription career, whether you work at home or in an office.
- Medical Transcription Employment - How to Let Other MTs Discover and Promote You
[Business:Careers-Employment] Finding medical transcription employment may be challenging, but landing that MT job--whether it is your first or tenth--is not that difficult if you have a plan, implement it, and work at it on a regular basis. This article outlines some creative ways to get your foot in the door, whether you are a newbie MT or a veteran MT.
- Six Naked Truths About Home Based Medical Transcription
[Home-Based-Business] Do you love the thought of having a home based medical transcription business? Then get the naked truth about this subject from a veteran MT who has been in the trenches and has worked both in-house and at home. This is one article you will definitely want to read.
- Forensic Nursing Sub Specialties
[Business:Careers-Employment] Forensic nursing, a relatively new specialty in the nursing field, encompasses the tasks of providing care to crime victims, collecting forensic evidence that may be significant in trials, and providing health care services to our country's prison population. The International Association of Forensic Nurses, the professional organization for this field, develops, promotes, and distributes information relative to forensic nursing science. There are many sub specialties within this field which are examined in this article.
- Medical Transcription - Can The MT Shortage Be Averted With An Apprenticeship Program?
[Business:Careers-Employment] In March 2007, the Department of Labor took an unprecedented step toward getting more people to pursue a career in medical transcription: it declared this field to be an apprenticeable profession which is the first step in establishing a national medical transcription apprenticeship program. Creating an environment in which MTs can learn, prosper, thrive, and accelerate the learning curve so they can make the decent salary they richly deserve, all the while providing an essential service-specifically to the employer and to the community at large--is the reason behind the development of the medical transcription apprenticeship program.
- Legal Nurse Consultant - Advocate For Victims
[Business:Consulting] Legal nurse consultants are a special breed of nurses. These healthcare professionals bridge the gap between the medical and legal fields, advocating for victims of abuse and/or crimes. Their expertise in medicine is highly sought after by defense attorneys who need their expert testimony to provide insight into the legal dramas that play out in courtrooms day after day in both civil and criminal cases.
- Medical Transcription and Military Spouses - Strange Bedfellows?
[News-and-Society:Military] Medical transcription is not only a great field in the healthcare industry, it is now being seen as a way to provide military spouses a means of income while traveling with their servicemen and women as they are transferred from post to post every 18-24 months. The Departments of Defense and Labor, in conjunction with companies in the private sector, have teamed up to provide military spouses a way of pursuing a career that is as mobile as the military assignments given to their mates.
- Why Every Medical Transcriptionist Should Use Word Expander Software
[Computers-and-Technology:Software] People who do not work in the medical transcription field have no clue how much technology we use or how many software programs we must use and master to become proficient enough to earn a decent living as MTs. One such tool that helps us to speed up our production without jeopardizing the quality of our work is word expander software. Thank God for this tool. It not only helps us be more productive, it also may lengthen our careers as medical transcriptionists.
- Medical Transcription - How To Deal With Lousy Dictators and Cheap Doctors
[Business:Careers-Employment] Medical transcription takes a particular mindset; I've said it before and I am saying it again because it is that important. There are several challenges each of us face in the medical field when transcribing dictated reports for doctors, physical therapists, psychiatrists, nurses, and other ancillary personnel. This article points out some of the pitfalls all medical transcriptionists will face at some point in time in their careers.
- Compassion Fatigue in Nursing
[Business:Careers-Employment] Compassion fatigue in nursing is prevalent, due to the ever increasing patient loads caused by managed care, the nursing shortage, and administrators who are required to maintain budgets which may not be in the best interest of patients or hospital personnel. Learn the warning signs of compassion fatigue and what you can do to avoid it.
- Where Are The Men In Nursing?
[Reference-and-Education] Men in nursing face a challenge that most men in other professions do not: discrimination and a negative bias that can severely limit their ability to do their jobs and chance for advancement in their nursing career. Even some doctors feel uncomfortable with male nurses, especially those who wish to work in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Labor and Delivery, and maternity wards. Many men find out that working as a nurse is an unwelcome reversal of the old saying, "It's a Man's World."
- Medical Transcription Scams
[Business:Careers-Employment] Like all other industries on the Internet, medical transcription is prone to the anonymous hucksters who would like to take advantage of those who have an interest in this type of work. Promises of autonomy, self-sufficiency, and money abound. Overblown hype, half-truths, and outright lies are pervasive in the sales pitch.
- The Challenges and Rewards of Medical Transcription
[Business:Careers-Employment] The field of medical transcription is very attractive to most people because it does allow the opportunity to work from home and make a decent to good income. However, most individuals getting into this field do not know the challenges they will face once they decide to pursue this field.
- Medical Transcription Certification - Does It Lead To A Better Paying MT Job?
[Business:Careers-Employment] Medical transcription certification can accelerate your earnings as a medical transcriptionist. Find out what it takes to get medical transcription certification and how it may help you get a better paying medical transcription job.
- 10 Romantic Date Ideas That Don't Cost A Dime
[Relationships:Dating] Romantic date ideas that don't cost anything are fun and easy to create. Dates with your partner or spouse don't have to cost anything. It's the quality time that you spend together with your mate that counts. Here are 10 ideas to do just that.
- Menopause, Mental Pause, Monstral Pause
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] Menopause is a lot like puberty but in reverse. Instead of hormones raging wild, they are slowly ebbing away and shutting down. But not before driving us women slowly out of our ever-loving minds. Actually, there are times when it should be called mental-pause because of the wild oscillations of emotions and the scatterbrained thought patterns that run rampant through our once logical female brains.
- Medical Transcription Credibility Kit - An Essential Job Interview Tool
[Business:Resumes-Cover-Letters] A medical transcription credibility kit contains documentation vital to setting yourself apart from other medical transcriptionists vying for the same medical transcription job. It is a tool that you use to establish credibility in the field and helps you to run rings around your competition. If you are not using a medical transcription credibility kit, you are not getting all the job interviews and offers you should be getting.
- Medical Transcription - How Hard Can It Be?
[Business:Careers-Employment] Medical transcription is the process of listening to dictated text and converting it into a properly formatted medical report. The dictation is done by medical specialists such as doctors; physician assistants; physical, respiratory, and occupational therapists; hospital administrators, and nurses. So how hard can medical transcription be?
- Online Medical Transcription Schools - The Ease of At-Home Learning
[Business:Careers-Employment] Online medical transcription schools offer a tremendous time savings and the flexibility to tailor your school schedule around your busy professional and personal life. If you want to enter the medical transcription field, you may need the flexibility to study and learn at your own pace. Thanks to technology if you wish to pursue a career in medical transcription, you can do so now via online medical transcription schools.
- Online Medical Transcription Courses - A Good Thing or Buyer Beware?
[Business:Careers-Employment] Online medical transcription courses provide people who want to enter the medical transcription field the flexibility to study and learn at their own pace, something which appeals to many people today who have busy lives and hectic schedules. Besides the time savings offered by this educational option, one must consider many other factors when evaluating online medical transcription courses.
- Medical Transcription Salaries - How To Compare And Evaluate Them
[Business:Careers-Employment] Medical transcription salaries are as varied as there are medical transcriptionists and the type of medical transcription work they perform. Many factors have to be taken into account when considering how much a medical transcriptionist makes hourly or yearly. Here are some tips to help you make some fair comparisons to get accurate data.
- Medical Transcription Job Opportunities Via Volunteering
[Health-and-Fitness:Medicine] New medical transcriptionists (MTs) always want to know how to find medical transcription job opportunities. One way to do this is to take a long-term approach and do volunteer work. It is an often overlooked entry point into the medical transcription field.
- Medical Transcription Job Opportunities For New MTs
[Business:Careers-Employment] After completing the basic medical transcription courses, there may be times when you wonder if you will ever find medical transcription job opportunities. Just keep broadening your search, and with a little luck and focused effort, you will be in the right place at the right time when a transcription job becomes available.
- What Does A Home IV Therapy Nurse Do?
[Health-and-Fitness:Home-Health-Care] A home IV Therapy nurse is instrumental in taking care of patients at home who require medical and nursing care. As most people know, IV is short for intravenous, consequently, most people think that all a home IV therapy nurse does is to administer intravenous medications to a patient at home. However, there are many duties carried out by a home IV therapy nurse.
- The Field of Nursing Is In Critical Condition
[Health-and-Fitness:Medicine] As the United States continues to face a severe nursing shortage, a shortage that has lasted the longest in decades, hospital administrators and staff are scrambling to find solutions to the problem. However, the tactics currently being employed in the field of nursing may not only jeopardize patient care, but hurt us all in the long run.
- Realistic Job Outlook and Income for Entry-Level Medical Transcriptionists
[Business:Careers-Employment] Don't you just 'love' those Internet ads for medical transcription training that say, 'Earn up to $40,000 per year as a medical transcriptionist. Enroll Now!' To all medical transcription newbies: This is bunk. Disregard these ads as overblown hype. On the other hand, don't let that hype stop you from pursuing this career if you are passionate about it and committed to it. Medical transcription is a wonderful field that this author dearly loves and hopes you will too once you become engaged in learning and mastering it.
- The Nursing Shortage and Catman Cohen - An Artist Memorializes The US Nursing Shortage Plight
[Business:Careers-Employment] The nursing shortage and Catman Cohen: What do these two have to do with each other? The answer is this: The nursing shortage in America has been memorialized in song and video by an unlikely hero named Catman Cohen whose body of work has struck a raw nerve in this country. The seriousness of the nursing shortage and aging workforce are recognized by this artist who prefers not to call attention to himself but instead wants Americans to address the dire future that awaits this country if the nursing shortage crisis in our health care system is not addressed soon.
- Medical Transcriptionists - Protect Your Ears!
[Business:Careers-Employment] If you are a new medical transcriptionist, it won't be long before someone screams in your ears. Not literally, of course. However, it is a given that sooner or later you will be listening to a tape or a digital recording and someone in the background will be screaming or some other awful noise will accost your ears. This can actually be painful and quite startling.
- Travel Nurse Agencies - Providing The Ultimate Nursing Experience
[Travel-and-Leisure] Working for travel nurse agencies is a wonderful way to make a difference in the healthcare system while enjoying the adventure of traveling around the country. For nurses who love to travel, travel nurse agencies do provide the ultimate nursing experience because of the limitless professional and personal experiences they offer.
- Is The Nurse Educator Shortage In America Endangering Only Our Healthcare System?
[News-and-Society] The nurse educator shortage in America is, ironically, akin to a virulent epidemic that is silently eroding away at the systems that keep our healthcare industry functionally healthy and intact. Insidiously, stealthily, the erosion continues to spread as fewer and fewer nurse educators are available to train, lead and mentor other nurses. The effect of this shortage of nurse educators may be felt in this country for decades.
- The Learn and Earn Nursing Degree Model
[Reference-and-Education:College-University] The type of nursing degree a nursing student wants to earn depends on how much education he or she wishes to pursue and the time frame in which he or she wishes to accomplish it. Here is a synopsis of the various types of nursing degrees and the general amount of time it takes to obtain them.
- Nursing Degree By Distance In Southern Africa - An Innovative Necessity
[Business:Careers-Employment] Getting a nursing degree by distance in Southern Africa is a necessity based on the unique situation in South Africa. The HIV/AIDS crisis in which 10% of the people who populate this region, yet comprise only 1% of the world's population, has had a staggering impact on the ratio of nurses to patients. The AIDS pandemic has decimated and will continue to decimate the ranks of nurses and doctors for years to come. A health care job is indeed risky business in this area of the world.
- Associate Nursing Degree - Your Entry Point Into the Nursing Field
[Reference-and-Education:College-University] An Associate Nursing Degree (ADN) or an Associate Science in Nursing Degree (ASN) is usually a two-year program consisting of core course requirements in general education, general medical, and nursing education. This article details the type of courses required to obtain an ADN or ASN degree.
- Nursing Medical Care - Where Have All The Nurses Gone?
[Health-and-Fitness:Medicine] As the average age of Americans continues to rise, the shortage of quality nursing care continues to become more critical than ever before. Consequently, the healthcare system in American is in critical condition.
- So Few Nurses, So Many Patients
[Health-and-Fitness:Medicine] It is a commonly known fact that baby boomers, who represent a large segment of our population, are reaching the age where they require more medical and nursing care. As a consequence of the graying of America, quality nursing is reaching a crisis of near epidemic proportions.
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