ANSI Accreditation Helps to Bolster American Workforce
As part of its ongoing commitment to strengthen America’s workforce, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) was a sponsor of the U.S. Department of Education’s (DoE) recent Sustainability Education Summit.
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Dreyfuss honored in NY for education initiative
Oscar winner Richard Dreyfuss is receiving the 2010 Empire State Archives and History Award for his efforts to improve civics education in America’s schools.
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www.wgu.edu – As a young boy in Africa, Wilfrid Ky always dreamed of getting a degree in computer science. Originally from Burkina Faso, West Africa, Wil came to America in 1999 on a student visa, speaking only French. “I soon would find out the true meaning of learning to survive in America,” said Wil. “Not only had I been just recently been exposed to a whole new language and culture but now I had to contend with learning a whole new career and a future way of life for me in computer science.” He spent long nights learning English with help from his wife. Wil graduated with his associate’s degree in computer science in 2003. “I finally felt a bit of relief knowing that my dream was possible,” said Wil. “I knew that the sky was the limit and that doors would start opening for me.” At that time Wil was working full time as a network engineer, but was determined to further his education. He enrolled at WGU to work on his bachelor’s degree in information technology concentrating in networks design and management. Working full-time, Wil needed something that was flexible and affordable. He completed everything he needed in just under a year. Wil currently lives in Seattle with his wife, Belinda. He works at Microscan as a network administrator and is in charge of maintaining close to 40 servers. Headquarters and employees worldwide rely on these servers to perform their day-to-day job duties. WGU is the only accredited university in the US offering online competency-based …
This is a Backgrounder On Homeland Security
Abstract: A homeland security enterprise that can meet the threats and challenges of the 21st century requires the assistance and commitment of America’s educational system.
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I just enroled at the University of Phoenix to finish my degree in business administration. I own a small business and am getting the degree for myslf but was wondering if at some point if I decided to get a job somewhere else if it would matter so much where I got the degree. How is the University of Phoenix business program different from a State University or other business schools. How is online education viewed by corporate america.
Glenn Wilson Appointed Dean Of Ecotech Institute
Denver, Colorado – June 9, 2010 – Ecotech Institute (www.ecotechinstitute.com), the first and only college focused entirely on preparing America’s workforce for careers in renewable energy and sustainable design , today announced that Glenn Wilson will serve as the school’s dean of students.
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American College of Education Partners With the Department of Veterans Affairs to Increase Access to Online Accredited …
Veterans who have chosen to serve this country again in America’s classrooms are now assured access to online accredited affordable master’s degrees in education and online programs that can be fully reimbursed by the Post 9-11 GI Bill. American College of Education has been designated a Yellow Ribbon school by the Department of Veterans Affairs. The Yellow Ribbon program was created with the …
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Midwifery is the term traditionally used to describe the art of assisting a woman through the process of childbirth. In the modern context, this term is used to describe the activities of these health care providers who are experts in women’s health care, which includes giving prenatal care to expecting mothers. They attend the birth of the infant and provide postpartum care to the infant and mother. Practitioners of midwifery are known as midwives, constituting a small but visible minority of the health care field.
Midwives are autonomous practitioners who are specialists in matters regarding normal pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum. They generally work to ensure that women under their care have a healthy pregnancy and natural birth experience. Recognized by most of the field as primary care givers, midwives are trained to recognize and deal with deviations from the norm. Obstetricians, on the other hand, are specialists in illnesses related to childbearing. The two professions can be complementary, but are often at odds with each other, since obstetricians are taught to actively manage labor, while midwives are taught not to intervene unless necessary.
Midwives refer a patient to an obstetrician when a woman requires care beyond her area of expertise. In many jurisdictions, these professions work together to provide care to childbearing women, while in others only the midwife is available to provide care. Midwives are trained to handle just a few situations that are considered abnormal, including breech birth and posterior position, using non-invasive techniques. In many areas of the world, traditional midwives, called “traditional birth attendants” by the World Health Organization (WHO), are the only available providers for childbearing women. In the United States, they are divided into nurse midwives and direct-entry midwives.
A nurse midwife is a midwife who enters midwifery after first completing a full accredited nursing education program. All nurse midwives have their Bachelor’s degree, and the great majority have Master’s degrees as well. Nurse midwives deliver about ten percent of the births in the United States, and a slightly greater percentage in most other Westernized countries. Most operate only out of hospitals, since they are prevented by malpractice insurance rules and other concerns from performing home deliveries. Many would prefer to have the option of also being allowed to work outside the hospital.
American nurse midwifery originated during the Great Depression as a service for poor families in rural areas with little access to physicians. They gradually shifted their focus to the inner city, which was becoming the locus of much of the poverty and poor medical care in America of that era. At first, nurse midwives were considered marginal members of the medical community at best, which considered delivering babies to be the exclusive domain of obstetricians. With years of lobbying and shifting cultural mores, they have gradually become accepted as full partners in the medical field. With this acceptance has come limitations; there are requirements that nurse midwives practice under the supervision of an obstetrician and meet restrictive insurance requirements preventing them from having the freedom in their practices that many would prefer.
Direct-entry midwives are a separate category. These are midwives who have entered the practice of midwifery directly, without first passing through nursing training. In the Western nations, direct-entry midwives handle only two percent of all births, with the exception of a few European countries where the number is closer to twenty-five percent. Modern direct-entry midwives have their origins in the lay midwifery movement of the 1970s, but as they gradually professionalized and gained a body of experience, many came to prefer the term direct-entry as a profession in it’s own right.
Direct-entry midwives mostly deliver children in the home of the patient or in birth centers where they run their practices. Most direct-entry midwives are still not allowed hospital privileges at all, and their practice remains totally illegal in nine states in America, where they are liable to be arrested for practicing medicine without a license.
Direct-entry midwifery began as an organic response to the many counter-culture movements in the late 1960s and 1970s, based on a distrust of traditional procedure and unnecessary technology, and also the feminist call for a more woman-centered worldview. Direct-entry midwife centers sprang up independently in several different regions of the country, most notably in Santa Cruz, California, Vermont, and the commune known as “The Farm” in Tennessee, which was the home of founding mother Ina May Gaskin. At that time it was mostly an internal way of dealing with birth for drop-outs who had left most of the institutions of traditional society behind them to join the commune environment, but as those drop-outs began reintegrating themselves with mainstream culture in the 1980s and settling for the jobs and house in the suburbs after all, they took the practice of midwifery with them, and thus began a long process of making midwifery a profession all on it’s own.
The controversy between nurse midwives and direct-entry midwives has been pretty stormy. Nurse-midwives feel that their direct-entry counterparts undermine the years of work they have done to have midwifery be accepted as a fully legitimate and scientific enterprise, and they tend to be suspicious of direct-entry midwives’ lack of formal college-level training. Direct-entry midwives, from their side of the issue, criticize nurse-entry midwives as having abandoned the values which make midwifery distinct from obstetric practice. They also fear and resent the efforts which some nurse midwives have made to make the practice of midwifery without nurse’s training illegal.
Nobody has said the word “monopoly” yet, but it’s clear that midwives and particularly direct-entry midwives might feel that this is just what the child-birthing industry suffers under. In the United States, midwifery is still seen as a dodgy practice, and obstetricians range from acceptance to hot protest. Considering that there are many fields in medicine, such as physician’s assistants, where practice is also not allowed without direct supervision by a more educated overseer, many have asked what would be the harm in nurse midwives practicing under supervision as they have been doing. This controversy may yet reveal deep-seated animosity between political camps of health care workers before it plays out.
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Test Drive College Online Offers Revolutionary Way to Test Online Education
HOBOKEN, NJ (MAY 5, 2010) – EducationDynamics, higher education’s leading marketing services company, today announced the launch of Test Drive College Online . The revolutionary program solves the retention challenges facing America’s higher education institutions by testing prospective students’ college readiness before they commit to an online degree program and pay tuition.
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Ever thought of Nursing as your occupation? Taking care of the elderly, playing with children, consoling a sick person, being there for someone when they’re on their death bed? These are some of the things that you would do being a nurse. The bond that builds up between the patient and his caretaker – the nurse, is something to be cherished. The patient becomes dependent on you, and as long as he is under your care, you become his guardian angel.
Many people also go for nursing as their second career. To become a qualified nurse, you have to take nursing education from any recognized nursing school or nursing college. Nurse education is just like any other education, where you would be taught and prepared for nursing care. The students will be given lessons on various health education and medicines by qualified doctors, experienced nurses, and educators. Almost everywhere around the world the basic courses are similar; like general nursing, mental health nursing, and taking care of sick children. The courses are usually three years long.
Nursing is taught in nursing schools. You can also get a post graduate qualification in any specialist subject within nursing from a reputed nursing college. In the past, the emphasis was more only on the practical part, but now all nursing schools are focused both on the theoretical as well as the practical part, as nurses have to deal with so many types of patients. They have to know what to do and what not to, incase the doctor is not around. They are given basic education on medicine as well. Nurses today are not just a helper of the doctor concerned, but they are trained so that they would be able to contribute equally to the team.
Nursing education:
The first nursing school was set by Florence Nightingale at St Thomas’ Hospital, London. The curriculum in those days was just focused on hygienic factor and task competence. Nursing at that time was mainly adopted by girls, often taken in religious orders, but now we find many male nurses in all the hospitals, especially in mental health services. So many nursing schools and colleges have come up with the increasing need of nurses all over the world. It is recorded that in America itself there are about 45,000 nursing schools.
A lot of arguments still surround nursing education. Some believe that practical knowledge is what is most important, but some argue that with so many advancements coming in the medical world, these nursing schools should be able to teach them to manage health care and also to see the “future picture”. So to meet all these needs, nursing schools aim to train nurses who can be nurtured and trained to be life long learners, so as to meet any changes in both theory and practical parts of nursing.
Things to remember:
There are some points that you should remember when going for a nursing education:
• Decide on what program you want to take, and then decide on a school that matches.
• Look out for the featured schools around your area.
• Some people want the close attention of a small school, while others prefer the intellectual stimulation of a large institution.
• Make enquiries about the school, and the school’s reputation.
• It is better to take a school where the ratio of the students and the faculty is good. It is better to be in a small class size so that each student will be given equal attention.
• See that the school meets the standards of education set by a national accrediting organization.
To become a nurse you would need to dedicate your time and care whenever there is a need. Remember you can be a nurse at any age. If you are in your thirties or forties, this doesn’t mean you are not eligible. As long as you are ready to dedicate your life into this profession, you can become a nurse.
Stefan Rockhaus is a contributing author for Health Info Spot For further info visit Nursing School and Nursing School Online
