Category: Associate of Occupational Science – Vocational Nursing (LVN)

Discover LVN career guides, nursing school resources, licensure information, and healthcare education articles to help you explore vocational nursing pathways.

Stanbridge College REACHes Out to Serve the Homeless at Lighthouse Ministries

On Saturday May 21, the Stanbridge community gathered at the Lighthouse Outreach Ministries, the local outreach ministry of Mariners Church in Irvine, California, to help serve our homeless with lunch. In addition to volunteering time and effort, Stanbridge College provided funds to host the event as well as one-day bus passes to the people in […]

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The care and feeding of digital certificates

In a recent article, Help Net Security defines the uses of digital certificates and the need to manage certificates in the Enterprise.  Starting with an easy to understand explanation of how certificates prove identity of servers and enable encryption, originally for the Secure Sockets Layer of HTTPS, but now expanded to other servers, email between […]

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Nurses are key to patient safety initiatives

The health industry  celebrates National Patient Safety Awareness Week the first week of March, and nurses play a key role in patient-safety initiatives. Nurses use tools such as checklists, electronic health records and bar code scanners to improve patient safety and also rely on their knowledge and daily patient surveillance to assess and care for […]

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vSphere 4.1 ESKi Virtualization – IT Alumni Workshop

vSphere 4.1 ESKi Virtualization - IT Alumni Workshop

DESIGNING A HIGHLY AVAILABLE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT This lecture and guided demonstration will review the technologies that should be considered when designing a highly available virtual solution based on VMWare vSphere. COURSE TOPICS INCLUDE: - Product Overview, including licensing – Physical Server Architecture – Storage Implementations – DAS, iSCSI, FC – Memory Considerations – Networking (including […]

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Expert Tips to Combat Compassion Fatigue

Nurses are called upon to care for and show compassion to patients day after day. All of this giving and all these emotional ups and downs can be draining. As nurses care for others without taking time to care for themselves they often will experience compassion fatigue. Compassion fatigue can be an insidious thing. You […]

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Is there any reason for not encrypting removable storage?

eWeek news reports another Health Care data breach, this one involving a USB flash drive, adding to previous incidents listed in the article, involving USB drives and lost laptops.  While no encryption is unbreakable, if any removable device is likely to contain Personally Identifiable Information (PII), why not make it extremely difficult to access or […]

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Innovative Safety Programs Protecting Nurses, Staff and Patients

Hospital staff members across the country are focusing on safety in the day-to-day operation of their facilities. Safety is a broad subject, because the possibility of dangerous people coming into hospitals is often considered to be a big city problem. Below are examples of three hospitals who have implemented three diverse safety measurements. Communications Badges […]

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Network Vulnerability Scanners

What should you look for in a Vulnerability Scanner for your business?  What factors will influence your decision?  What capabilities should you look for?  An article by Cristian Florian of GFI LANguard in Help Net Security provides some answers to those questions, but also points out that knowledge of the IT staff is an additional […]

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New Resources Available to Improve Patient Safety and Combat Abuse in Long-term Care Facilities

To combat abuse and neglect in  long-term care facilities of elderly patients, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded more than $13 million to six states to design comprehensive criminal background check programs for jobs applicants involving direct patient care. “Elder abuse and neglect is tragic and intolerable,” said HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. […]

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