Nursing Education Loan Repayment

NELRP is a competitive program that repays 60 percent of the qualifying loan balance of registered nurses selected for funding in exchange for 2 years of service at a critical shortage facility. Participants may be eligible to work a third year and receive an additional 25 percent of the qualifying loan balance.

Authorized by Section 846 of the Public Health Service Act, as amended, the purpose of the NELRP is to assist in the recruitment and retention of professional nurses dedicated to providing health care to underserved populations.

You may be eligible to apply if you meet all of the following requirements by the next application due date:

• Have received a baccalaureate or associate degree in nursing (or an equivalent degree), a diploma in nursing or a graduate degree in nursing from an accredited school of nursing in a State
• Have outstanding qualifying loans obtained for nursing education leading to a degree or diploma in nursing as specified above
• Have completed the nursing education program for which the loan balance applies
• Are a U.S. citizen, U.S. national or a lawful permanent resident of the U.S.
• Are employed full time (32 hours or more per week) at a critical shortage facility
• Are employed at a non-profit facility (effective October 1, 2007)
• Have a current permanent unrestricted license as an RN in the State in which you intends to practice or be authorized to practice in that State pursuant to the Nurse Licensure Compact (not a U.S. Government Web site) and
• Have submitted a complete NELRP Application, a signed NELRP Contract, supplemental forms and all required documentation by the NELRP application deadline

If you are interested in read more, better visit this : http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/nursing/loanrepay.htm

Asperger Syndrome

Asperger Syndrome or (Asperger's Disorder) is a neurobiological disorder named for a Viennese physician, Hans Asperger, who in 1944 published a paper which described a pattern of behaviors in several young boys who had normal intelligence and language development, but who also exhibited autistic-like behaviors and marked deficiencies in social and communication skills.

Individuals with AS can exhibit a variety of characteristics and the disorder can range from mild to severe. Persons with AS show marked deficiencies in social skills, have difficulties with transitions or changes and prefer sameness. They often have obsessive routines and may be preoccupied with a particular subject of interest. They have a great deal of difficulty reading nonverbal cues (body language) and very often the individual with AS has difficulty determining proper body space. Often overly sensitive to sounds, tastes, smells, and sights, the person with AS may prefer soft clothing, certain foods, and be bothered by sounds or lights no one else seems to hear or see. It's important to remember that the person with AS perceives the world very differently. Therefore, many behaviors that seem odd or unusual are due to those neurological differences and not the result of intentional rudeness or bad behavior, and most certainly not the result of "improper parenting".

The major behavioral characteristics of Asperger's syndrome are:

1. impairment in social interaction and communication
2. repetitive or obsessive behaviors
3. preoccupation with particular subjects or interests
4. good (sometimes superior) grammar and vocabulary
5. normal cognitive development
6. normal or above average intelligence.

Although the behavioral symptoms of Asperger's syndrome are well established, very little is known about the disorder's neurobiological roots. Some studies have shown that people diagnosed with autism have abnormalities in the frontal and parietal lobes of their brains.

The researchers found that Asperger's subjects had a significantly higher prefrontal lobe concentrations of all metabolites measured. Also, the concentration of one of the metabolites (N-acetylaspartate) was positively correlated with obsessive behavior. The concentration of another metabolite (choline) was positively correlated with social impairment. In other words, the higher the concentration of these chemicals in the subject's prefrontal lobe, the more likely the person was to have a high score on the Yale-Brown or Autism Diagnostic tests. People with highly abnormal prefrontal metabolite concentrations were likely to have highly severe Asperger's symptoms. No differences were found in metabolite concentrations in the parietal lobe.

This article is taken from :
http://faculty.washington.edu
http://www.udel.edu

Registered Nurse Clinical Transition Program for the Beginning Practitioner

Mater Private Hospital Brisbane offers a Registered Nurse Clinical Transition Program, which assists beginning Nurse Practitioners to consolidate their theoretical knowledge and clinical practice.

The aim of the program is to offer beginning Nurse Practitioners a supportive and caring environment where they can

* gain clinical nursing experience in a variety of specialties, and
* acquire a broad understanding of the acute health care system.

Program Outline

* Orientation to the hospital and patient care units.
* 12 months rotation through patient care units.
* Night duty will be included in the rotations through the patient care units.
* Debriefing sessions will be held on predetermined dates throughout the duration of the program.
* Each nurse is expected to attend continuing education throughout the program.

On completion of the 12 month rotation Transition Program, the Registered Nurse will receive a certificate of achievement.

Should there be a suitable vacancy at the time of completion a permanent position at Mater Private Hospital Brisbane may be offered.
Entry Requirements

The applicant must hold current registration with the Nurse Registration Board of Queensland at the time of commencement.

This article is taken from www.mater.org.au

Real Factors About Temper Tantrum

There are many real factors which makes child became temper tantrum, such as :

1. A child is too tired, so that easy for them to feel annoyed and than difficult to control their emotion.
2. A child is failed while doing something, so that they become mad or angry and difficult to control it. This situation could be worsed when they felt that his parent always compare him with another child or his parent has highly demand for his child.
3. If a child has a desire, always be rejected and been angry with. Otherwise the parent force him to do something while he is playing a game. For example : order to eat. Maybe they never think that it could be a problem for their child in the future or next day. A child will think that he lost his ability and afraid of fight his parent’s demand. In the other side, he had to obey his parent’s order or command. This conflict will broken his emotion and someday it will blow up.
4. Child with mentally development disorder, oftenly happened a temper tantrum. Especially, when he felt giving up to tell or express his desire to his environment.
5. The most oftenly happened is a child adopt his parent’s deviate action while releasing their anger. If you care about your child development, better check your attitude and character as good parent.

With those many factors, hopely we as a parent know how to face it. When we really face it, we know what we could do.

The next article, I’ll try to give you a few thing that parent could do to face a temper tantrum. So see you on the next article.

TEMPERTANTRUM

A parent with children under 5 years old may have an experience while their child having strong desire, no matter buy or just have it. And when his desire didn’t obeyed, suddenly he cried so loudly and rolling on the floor. This condition makes you feel annoyed but his crying became mad.

It is called Temper Tantrum (expressing great anger to get what he wants). It is an explosion of child’s anger which oftenly happened in 2 till 4 years old when he tried to express his self-government and negativism. It is followed by other attitudes that increasing your annoyance, such as crying loudly, rolling on the floor, screaming, throwing things, beating, kicking, etc. And in younger child, it could be followed by vomiting or urinating in his pant.

Why is it happened ? It is caused of the children couldn’t control their emotion and how express their emotion correctly. This situation could be worsed if the parents didn’t understand what’s going on exactly with their children. And also couldn’t control their emotion because of feel shame, annoyed, etc.

What are the real factors which makes child became temper tantrum ? There are many real factors caused temper tantrum. If you wanna know, just wait for the second article !