IT research firm Gartner has released the results of an international survey taken last year indicating nearly half of the companies polled have implemented OSS (Open Source Software) in their organization. 22% indicated company-wide adoption of open source software and 46% used open source in specific departments or for individual projects. Only a third of […]
More hospitals and medical businesses in many states are adopting strict policies that make smoking a reason to turn away job applicants because they want to “increase worker productivity, reduce health care costs and encourage healthier living”. The new rules essentially treat cigarettes like an illegal narcotic. Applications now explicitly warn of “tobacco-free hiring”, job […]
New PCs from the large OEMs often are shipped with trial versions of applications not needed or desired by the purchaser. PCDecrapifier is a tool to allow users of new machines to easily remove the unnecessary (and potentially harmful) software, with the ability to choose to retain some, if desired. As it runs one time, […]
Home health nursing is a specialty that is expected to rapidly expand within the next decade! The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the employment of nurses in home health is projected to grow 33 percent from 2008 to 2018. “I feel home health care is what nursing was meant to be,” says Eileen […]
eWeek News is reporting that the new Bureau of Labor Statistics data is showing growth for IT hiring (except for data processing positions) for the previous year, including 8 straight months of increasing hiring. While not spectacular growth, only 21 job catagories are tracked by the BLS, so the relatively small number is jobs added […]
Hospitals are going green! It’s now standard for hospitals to recycle everything from paper products and beverage bottles to less common items like blue wrap, saline containers, electronics and batteries. As the largest contingent of the health care workforce, nurses must learn to recycle, according to eco-friendly health advocates. They handle at least 95 percent […]
The first in a series of four planned articles, this Ars Technica article is an introduction to the use of VMWare in an enterprise environment. Leading to the details in a later article, Ars writer Sam Webb describes the advantages of virtualization with the capabilities of live migration, “high availability” and fault tolerance. High availability […]
A new study shows that naps should be encouraged for nurses who work long shifts. The study found that without naps, the demands of patient care places the nurses at risk for sleep deprivation, which in turn can threaten their own health and safety, and the safety of their patients. “When nurses got a nap […]
Tech Republic runs down the list of patches released by Microsoft for their monthly Tuesday patch release, with short descriptions of the vulnerablity each patch repairs, and a prioritization recommendation for the fixes. Some are critical and should be implemented immediately, while others can wait until testing is complete.
Kathy L. Rush, PhD, RN, at the University of British Columbia Okanagan in Canada, is doing research on whether or not nurses should be role models for healthy practices. Her work challenges the notion that nurses should follow healthy behaviors to be effective role models. “Whether we believe patients should or should not view nurses as […]