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Topnotchers of July 2010 Nursing Board Exams
Out of 91,008 examinees this recent board, around 37,000 passed and out of those 37,000 here are the best among the best who took the exams! These people are an inspiration to all nursing students who are to take and excel in next year’s nursing licensure examinations!
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Released! July 2010 Nursing Board Exams with Search Function
Here are the results! Out of 91,008 board passers 37, 679 passed this July’s nursing board exams! Board exams topnotchers and top performing schools will be posted later. Search for your names now! Congratulations to all!
Use the search function! Click on the search box right just below the iPaper. Congratulations More >
Caregiver Abuses an Old Helpless Man
A caregiver abuses his old, weak, and helpless patient, very much contrary to the field of caring. Throughout the video you want see the caregiver is slapping and hitting the old man. This is very wrong right? Tell us your insights about the video. And these situations are not uncommon. More >
Educational Requirement For the Different Levels of Practice Nursing
Nurses are very important, as they work to perform many needful tasks; promoting health, preventing diseases and assisting persons in dealing with their ailments from day to day. Their job can involve anything from providing basic health care to helping surgeons to conduct critical and complex procedures. For persons desirous More >
Career training institutions and career American Medical Schools …
Often, graduates and students active in the classes of higher vocational nursing courses are offered free to review to prepare for NCLEX-PN examination. After passing the licensing exam, graduates can gain employment as professional nurse license. A California licensed professional … nursing schools also offer training for other successful career in the health sector, More >
How Often Can I Take the NCLEX-RN Exam? | Surviving Nursing School …
What you need to familiarize yourself with, however, is the basics of nursing that you learned while you were in nursing school. Along with that, you should make sure that you take good care of your health, eat properly and drink plenty …
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Nursing and Technology: A Solution for Jobless Nurses
Ivan John Uy the new chief of Commission on Information Communications Technology (CICT) proposed a solution to half a million jobless nursing graduates int he country by retooling their skills to become IT-enabled medical transcriptionists.
There is a “mismatch” between the number of new graduate nurses and current jobs available.
“Hundreds of More >
July 2010 Nursing Board Exams Results
Get the results fast! Get the Nursing Board Exams results here at NursesLabs! They are due this last week of August or the first week of September. Let’s keep our fingers crossed and offer everything to the God.
Let us all hope that there would be more nurses who will pass More >
The Best Hospital in the Philippines? Who Wants to Work Here?
This is by far the best hospital I have ever seen (and probably yours too)! This series of pictures would keep you scratching your heads and at the same time make you say wow for a plenty of times. Try to guess what hospital is this.
Welcome to the Lobby. This hospital More >
Goodluck!
For all those who would be taking their test this coming July to become Registered Nurses…
On the other hand you could check our quizzes:
5 Benign Febrile Convulsions Nursing Care Plans
A febrile seizure is a convulsion in a child triggered by a fever. Such convulsions occur without any underlying brain or spinal cord infection or other neurological cause. According to studies, about 3-5% of otherwise healthy children between the ages of 9 months and 5 years will have a seizure More >
6 More Bronchopneumonia Nursing Care Plans
Pneumonia is the inflammation of the lung caused by bacteria in which the air sacs become filled with inflammatory cells and the lung becomes solid. The symptoms include those of any infection (fever, malaise, headache, etc.,) together with cough and chest pain.
It is estimated that, worldwide, some 4 million children More >
Escitalopram
Generic Name: escitalopram oxalate
Brand Name: Lexapro
Other Info: Pregnancy Category C
Drug classes: Antidepressant, SSRI
Therapeutic actionsPotentiates serotonergic activitity in the CNS by inhibiting reuptake of serotonin resulting in antidepressant effect with little effect on norepinephrine or dopamine; an isomer of citalopram.
Indications- Treatment of major depressive disorder
- Maintenance treatment for patients with major depressive disorder
- Treatment of generalized anxiety disorder
- Unlabeled use: Panic disorder
