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In one corner: certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs). In the other corner: anesthesiologists.

This seems an unlikely fight, since nurse anesthetists and anesthesiologists are more natural allies than enemies. After all, both groups give anesthesia to patients in the same ways in order to enable surgery and other medical procedures to be performed successfully. But an ongoing debate between these two professional groups recently became a full-blown legal battle. The issue? The decision by certain states to opt-out of a Medicare […]

A few decades ago, the thought of students using anything other than paper, pencil and a thick textbook to learn in a traditional classroom was the stuff of dreams. By the late 1990s, computer laptops in the classroom had become the norm. Today, the iPad is showing up everywhere from elementary school to college campuses.

How has the iPad changed the way we learn?

Tablet learning has been touted as the ultimate synthesis of computing with mobile communication, including a keyboard, mouse, […]

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With over a million words, the English language can be hard to navigate. If you tried to use all of them, your resume would be 2,000 pages long. So rather than focus on all of the words you could use, let’s take a look at which ones you shouldn’t.

1) “Responsible For” - Unless you are referring to your dog-sitting skills, stay away from this phrase. If you think about it carefully, you’ll realize that […]

The University of California system made a lot of news in 2010 for rising tuition and fees, among other budgetary troubles. According to a November 2010 University of California (UC) press release, the system approved an 8 percent increase in tuition and fees for the 2011-2012 school year. While UC lumps these costs together, budget-savvy students should separate them out. Because students pay different levels of tuition and fees depending on whether they are in-state residents or out-of-state students, undergraduate […]

Military nurses have served the nation since the beginning of the 20^th Century. Before that time, as early as the Civil War, the armed forces were treated by civilian nurses. The U.S. Army and Navy each had a corps comprised of nurses recruited from the ranks of civilians by 1908, while the Air Force created its nursing corps upon that branch's separation from the Army in 1947. Today, nurses in the military hold ranks and ratings and serve in hospitals […]

In 2002, there were 1 billion mobile subscriptions worldwide, by the end of 2008, there were 4.1B subscribers, and 5B by the end of 2010. The mobile technology "craze" has quickly become the way we do business.

Mobile technology: the tsunami of the future

Mobile technology has gone way beyond "wave of the future" to a veritable tsunami poised to overtake every aspect of our lives--business, personal, education, medical, entertainment. And, those who aren't already planning and implementing their mobile strategies could […]

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If you are preparing for a career in finance or just want to learn more about the stock market you may have noticed the enormous amount of material on the internet and at bookstores. Most of this information is not worth the paper it’s printed on.

Save yourself some time and focus on the best books. The following are ten excellent books on finance, economics, and investing. The list contains a mixture of textbooks, humorous […]

According to the American Gaming Association (AGA), 2009 commercial casino revenue topped $30 billion, reflecting the tremendous (and growing) popularity of gaming in the United States. Given the positive growth outlook for the cagaming industry as a whole, now is a great time to consider careers in casino management. For example, you might become a gaming supervisor or gaming manager. Gaming supervisors are usually assigned a particular area of the casino in which they organize and instruct the staff […]