I agree that reform is needed even though it may be uncomfortable for some practitioners.
in reference to: New health-care law might make your doctor more informed, efficient, responsive (view on Google Sidewiki)
Hello I'm a male Registered Nurse (RN) and I'm currently in school at University of Hawaii at Manoa for my masters in Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP). I love technology. This blog is more of a personal one with some others. Which is to blog about my life, tech related stuff, and health related issues. I will try to be as accurate as I can with the health related issues and be prudent enough to use evidence-based practice.
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Wrong update! Pakistani AF chief's son.
Nevermind, wrongly read, he's the Pakistani's Air Force chief's son.
in reference to: Car bomb suspect who slipped under radar is son of air force chief - Times Online (view on Google Sidewiki)ARE YOU SERIOUS?!
What is this world coming to?! The Air force Chief's son is the car bomb suspect?
in reference to: Car bomb suspect who slipped under radar is son of air force chief - Times Online (view on Google Sidewiki)Tuesday, May 4, 2010
My facebook page
I really like the way facebook and google is going good together!
in reference to: Facebook | Yusharn Wang (view on Google Sidewiki)Monday, January 18, 2010
Military Duty as a Registered Nurse
Aloha,
I'm in the process of joining the military as a nurse. Particularly a family nurse practitioner. Anybody has any advice or anything to say about military nursing as a family nurse practitioner? Not too many. I've been told by the navy recruiter that I am able to join now as a Navy reservist and obtain a commission as a Ensign, an equivalent to a 2nd Lieutenant in the Air Force. Yes the navy has different names for their ranks by tradition. Then, I could get active duty recall when it's within 6 months of my graduation from my masters FNP program and get a Lieutenant Junior Grade rank (1st Lieutenant) since I would have my masters in nursing. Experience in the military, will definitely give me the experience I would never get in the civilian sector. So I feel special.
While in the navy reserves, the recruiter would get me into the Medical In Training (MIT) program. This will allow me to continue school full-time and get a monthly salary of reservist pay (about $750 a month as a Ensign in the navy reserves). All military branches pay the same base salary because it's all about what rank you are and years of experience. This program will also entitle me to other extra pay I believe. I would go to officers training for only 2 weeks in Rhode Island to learn about the military, navy, and how to put on a uniform basically. No bootcamp since I'm not going to be enlisted, I'm going to be an officer in the Nurse Navy Corp. Two hospital ships: Comfort & Mercy. One is based for the Pacific fleet in San Diego and the other is the Atlantic fleet based in Portsmith in the east coast. I chose the Pacific Fleet to stay on the west coast.
After getting active duty recall, I would have a 4-year commitment and get paid well actually. Alright, all this sounds great. Just one barrier. I lost my proof of citizenship in the December 2008 house flood while I was away in New York City! :( Now I have to cough up $380 for a replacement. I guess since I absolutely need it, I will have to get it and pay big for it. I'm glad my girlfriend is alright with all this military joining and stuff. She'll support me all the way! Whoohoo! I believe that is also important in making decisions like this. After 4-6 years of active duty, I may come back to Hawaii to work as a nurse practitioner and go back to the Navy reserves to be based at Pearl Harbor. Cool huh?
I'm in the process of joining the military as a nurse. Particularly a family nurse practitioner. Anybody has any advice or anything to say about military nursing as a family nurse practitioner? Not too many. I've been told by the navy recruiter that I am able to join now as a Navy reservist and obtain a commission as a Ensign, an equivalent to a 2nd Lieutenant in the Air Force. Yes the navy has different names for their ranks by tradition. Then, I could get active duty recall when it's within 6 months of my graduation from my masters FNP program and get a Lieutenant Junior Grade rank (1st Lieutenant) since I would have my masters in nursing. Experience in the military, will definitely give me the experience I would never get in the civilian sector. So I feel special.
While in the navy reserves, the recruiter would get me into the Medical In Training (MIT) program. This will allow me to continue school full-time and get a monthly salary of reservist pay (about $750 a month as a Ensign in the navy reserves). All military branches pay the same base salary because it's all about what rank you are and years of experience. This program will also entitle me to other extra pay I believe. I would go to officers training for only 2 weeks in Rhode Island to learn about the military, navy, and how to put on a uniform basically. No bootcamp since I'm not going to be enlisted, I'm going to be an officer in the Nurse Navy Corp. Two hospital ships: Comfort & Mercy. One is based for the Pacific fleet in San Diego and the other is the Atlantic fleet based in Portsmith in the east coast. I chose the Pacific Fleet to stay on the west coast.
After getting active duty recall, I would have a 4-year commitment and get paid well actually. Alright, all this sounds great. Just one barrier. I lost my proof of citizenship in the December 2008 house flood while I was away in New York City! :( Now I have to cough up $380 for a replacement. I guess since I absolutely need it, I will have to get it and pay big for it. I'm glad my girlfriend is alright with all this military joining and stuff. She'll support me all the way! Whoohoo! I believe that is also important in making decisions like this. After 4-6 years of active duty, I may come back to Hawaii to work as a nurse practitioner and go back to the Navy reserves to be based at Pearl Harbor. Cool huh?
A man, a student, a nurse, a tech lover.
Aloha everyone,
Well it's imminent that the fast pace of growing technology now days is ever so, well...FAST. Is it me or is the cell phone industry growing more popular because of the availability of "smartphones" able to do nearly everything a laptop can do wirelessly? Well it seems the health care industry is also shifting gears to get ready for the tentative date of 2015s requirement that all medical records need to be in electronic form, including outpatient small clinics. This my friends, is not only cool, but more efficient, secure, available, green, and easier to use in the health care setting. However, I've heard about long time nurses, doctors, pharmacists, and other health care workers hating the new system and it's requirements. That's got to change! Now days everything is on the internet, including journals and news. So I believe we healthcare workers must be willing to make efficient use of the available and future technologies.
Let me give you an example. The Apple's iPhone 3GS is the best smartphone from Apple that is capable of doing nearly everything you need: calls, media entertainment, web browsing, texting, tweeting, facebook, myspace, medical resource applications, etc. Now the rumored Apple tablet is supposedly imminent this month and it is suspected that new gadgets will be revealed at the January 27 event that apple is holding called "Latest Creation". Wow, I'm very excited actually. Just recently in Fall 2009, I bought my very first mac, then Macbook Pro 15" with the "middle specs" of 2.66GHZ at the student price with the free ipod touch. Then it was like a gateway drug that led to other Apple stuff. I needed a bigger monitor to read my PDF files and do research and papers, all at home. I found a solution. A refurbished 24" Apple cinema display to connect to my macbook pro. Then it led to getting a apple tv which I love to watch movies and other media. I used handbrake to rip my purchased DVDs and store it on the Apple TV. Then it led to a mac mini that I got as a gift, the latest 2.53GHZ mac mini that syncs well with my MBP since I won a subscription to Apple's MobileMe. Along with this, I switched from T-Mobile to AT&T to get the iPhone 3GS. All this seems like a lot but hey, I actually make good use of all these things nearly every single day.
Now they're coming out with a Apple Tablet that would be good as a laptop as it can do new iWork touch processing. Sort of like a large iPod touch but with 3G capability rumored to be on Verizon's network. This is also attractive to my technology enjoyment. As I try to keep up with the technological advancements, I'm able to do homework on the computer and internet with ease and I am always up-to-date with future developments that could possibly help me in my future work as a Family Nurse Practitioner. Also, it's entertaining to see all these cool new gadgets come out. :) I realized now though, since I have many of the new gadgets, I must calm down and stop obtaining these cool things such as new computers. I thought to myself though, that getting a new cell phone if I could afford it isn't that bad. Hence, Google's Android phones are coming out fast and better than ever. Especially their new Nexus One sold only on the Google online store. They're coming out with a version for Verizon's network but that's later in the earlier half in Spring 2010. This phone may actually urge me to switch form AT&T to Verizon because of these cool Google phones that can do a lot more things freely. Also, the network may be better as Verizon is known to be and it's good too that my girlfriend has Verizon and she wants to stay on that network so we can get a family plan!
Well it's imminent that the fast pace of growing technology now days is ever so, well...FAST. Is it me or is the cell phone industry growing more popular because of the availability of "smartphones" able to do nearly everything a laptop can do wirelessly? Well it seems the health care industry is also shifting gears to get ready for the tentative date of 2015s requirement that all medical records need to be in electronic form, including outpatient small clinics. This my friends, is not only cool, but more efficient, secure, available, green, and easier to use in the health care setting. However, I've heard about long time nurses, doctors, pharmacists, and other health care workers hating the new system and it's requirements. That's got to change! Now days everything is on the internet, including journals and news. So I believe we healthcare workers must be willing to make efficient use of the available and future technologies.
Let me give you an example. The Apple's iPhone 3GS is the best smartphone from Apple that is capable of doing nearly everything you need: calls, media entertainment, web browsing, texting, tweeting, facebook, myspace, medical resource applications, etc. Now the rumored Apple tablet is supposedly imminent this month and it is suspected that new gadgets will be revealed at the January 27 event that apple is holding called "Latest Creation". Wow, I'm very excited actually. Just recently in Fall 2009, I bought my very first mac, then Macbook Pro 15" with the "middle specs" of 2.66GHZ at the student price with the free ipod touch. Then it was like a gateway drug that led to other Apple stuff. I needed a bigger monitor to read my PDF files and do research and papers, all at home. I found a solution. A refurbished 24" Apple cinema display to connect to my macbook pro. Then it led to getting a apple tv which I love to watch movies and other media. I used handbrake to rip my purchased DVDs and store it on the Apple TV. Then it led to a mac mini that I got as a gift, the latest 2.53GHZ mac mini that syncs well with my MBP since I won a subscription to Apple's MobileMe. Along with this, I switched from T-Mobile to AT&T to get the iPhone 3GS. All this seems like a lot but hey, I actually make good use of all these things nearly every single day.
Now they're coming out with a Apple Tablet that would be good as a laptop as it can do new iWork touch processing. Sort of like a large iPod touch but with 3G capability rumored to be on Verizon's network. This is also attractive to my technology enjoyment. As I try to keep up with the technological advancements, I'm able to do homework on the computer and internet with ease and I am always up-to-date with future developments that could possibly help me in my future work as a Family Nurse Practitioner. Also, it's entertaining to see all these cool new gadgets come out. :) I realized now though, since I have many of the new gadgets, I must calm down and stop obtaining these cool things such as new computers. I thought to myself though, that getting a new cell phone if I could afford it isn't that bad. Hence, Google's Android phones are coming out fast and better than ever. Especially their new Nexus One sold only on the Google online store. They're coming out with a version for Verizon's network but that's later in the earlier half in Spring 2010. This phone may actually urge me to switch form AT&T to Verizon because of these cool Google phones that can do a lot more things freely. Also, the network may be better as Verizon is known to be and it's good too that my girlfriend has Verizon and she wants to stay on that network so we can get a family plan!
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