Nursing Job Candidate Shortage Spurs Launch of Unique New Nursing Employment Website

Nursing Job Candidate Shortage Spurs Launch of Unique New Nursing Employment Website

Dramatic shortage of nurses generates surprisingly high interest in new website dedicated to helping health care organizations recruit qualified nurses. Unlike other websites in the nursing staffing industry, this website is completely free for both nursing job seekers and nursing employers.

Arlington, VA (PRWEB) February 16, 2006

Nursing Job Finder launches with unique take on medical staffing.

On February 1 the Nursing Job Finder (NJF) located at http://www. nursing-job-finder. com (http://www. nursing-job-finder. com), a new website and resource for the nursing and health care industry, officially launched its unique take on recruiting for the nursing industry.

And this couldn't come at a more critical time: according to the latest projections from the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than 1,000,000 new and replacement nurses will be needed by 2012, making registered nursing the top occupation in terms of job growth through the year 2012.

Unfortunately, that demand isn't being met by supply of available nurses:

44 states are expected to have nursing shortages by year 2020.

There 100,000 vacant nursing position in long-term care facilities.

According to Health Affairs, over 80% of doctors and surveyed claimed to have nursing shortages where they worked.

Offering extensive but simple to use tools and features for both the job seeker and employer free of charge, NJF is designed to fill the growing demand for nursing and medical professional around the globe.

“Our goal is simple, to allow job seekers and employers to find each other quickly, efficiently and without breaking the bank or wasting time” says Rich Phillips, VP, Customer Relations.

The Nursing Job Finder is a unique initiative because it was designed to maximize the employers’ efforts and minimize their costs of recruiting qualified candidates with a simple to use interface backed by smart recruiting technology.

Mr. Phillips describes just some of the features of NJF that are offered to both employers and job seekers:

“We wanted to make it easy for employers and recruiters to register and post a job so we created the One Step registration process. One Step enables the job poster to get started and get their first job listed in less than 2 minutes. Something that also separates us from other job boards is our multipost feature. This smart technology pushes jobs posted on NJF to third party job aggregator sites for maximum exposure. Finally, what could be better than unlimited free job postings and resume sourcing allowing employers to maximize their recruiting efforts at NO COST?

For the Job seeker we have created the same conveniences and simple to use tools. The One Step resume upload and one step resume builder allows job seekers to apply to jobs instantly by either creating a resume on the NJF site or simply uploading their current resume. Job seekers have the option to perform a quick search or an advanced search which lets them drill down into specific geographical areas and types of jobs.”

The Nursing Job Finder is a resource for the Nursing industry that makes it incredibly easy for both the job seeker and employer to find what they need - from resume building, to job posting, to resume sourcing. “The NJF team has made it easy for the Nursing community because that’s the way we feel it should be”, says Mr. Phillips.

To learn more about the Nursing Job Finder and it's suite of easy-to-use features and tools visit http://www. nursing-job-finder. com (http://www. nursing-job-finder. com)

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Roundtable Conference Showcases New Monetization Options

Roundtable Conference Showcases New Monetization Options

The April 19 'Emerging Trends, Emerging Companies' session at the Domain Roundtable conference highlights opportunities to improve domain portfolio performance. Register now to participate and discuss methods to increase earning potential.

Seattle, WA (PRWEB) April 9, 2008

The domain industry consistently improves adapting to latest trends, technologies and changes. This is evidenced in the relentless emergence of new companies with improved products and fresh perspectives and existing companies enhancing platform and tool offerings to better serve their customer. The Domain Roundtable conference recognizes this with a special session. The session will highlight new companies in the domain space and existing that offer tools for improving domain performance.

The four companies presenting in the panel are Domain Strategies, EVOLanding, Mpire and Sendori. Each has a unique proposition of how to improve the monetization of domain value and performance.

Domain Strategies (www. domainstrategies. com) develops high value, category defining businesses on premium domains by applying progressive business planning, visionary entrepreneurs and smart capital. By partnering with domain owners to create a new business entity, staffing it with a world class CEO and development team, Domain Strategies looks worldwide for partnership opportunities and capitalize the enterprise with the seed money required to launch and grow to a higher valuation. Each domain is category defining and each business is unique. Healthcare. com, Alerts. com, Patents. com and WiFi. com are all examples of this model.

A new company founded in October 2007, EVOLanding (www. evolanding. com) is a next-generation domain monetization platform built around its ability to rapidly develop topic-relevant, media-rich websites. EVO's proprietary technology is a web-based software and methodology that harnesses the power of the semantic web. Using a modular-based architecture, every site managed through EVO Landing is updated dynamically, daily, and automatically with relevant, rich-media (articles, listings, products, photos, videos, downloads). With this platform, domain owners are able to turn static web sites into online investments as they enjoy the added monetary benefits of multiple ad-network integration, multiple affiliate program integration, and exclusive partnerships.

A third company participating in the panel is Mpire (www. mpire. com). Mpire starts as an online shopping site then developed WidgetBucks, a pay-per-click shopping widgets, using MerchSense, a proprietary contextual technology, to help publishers earn more money from their advertising space. Mpire provides domainers shopping specific template sites customizable for specific products or categories. Using the proprietary technology providing rich interactive sites, domainers are able to engage their trafficked audience to higher conversions and a 5-10% return frequency from their traffic. Mpire makes creating shopping type sites a simple and scalable process without needing to manage feeds or API's and building custom templates

Sendori (www. sendori. com) provides innovative monetization solutions to large domainers. The solutions are based on a portfolio of pending-patents. Initial solutions include the Zero-Click service which monetizes domains using redirects, and the Qualified Click solution which monetizes category clicks on parked pages. Traffic from domains is efficiently routed to leading online advertisers and to ad networks. Sendori provides advertisers with APIs that allow automated updating of keywords and bids.

These companies plus more are available to discuss tactics to improve portfolios. The latest agenda for the Domain Roundtable with details of this session and more can be found on the conference website. The conference, being held in San Francisco April 18-21, is selling fast!  Conference registration for attendance is available at www. domainroundtable. com.

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UTest To Host "Battle Of The Browsers" Bug Contest

UTest To Host "Battle Of The Browsers" Bug Contest

Company Challenges Community of Testers to Unearth Bugs in IE8, Firefox 3.1 (Alpha 2) and Chrome

Boston, MA (PRWEB) November 3, 2008

uTest today announced its first ever software testing contest, which will run from November 5-12, 2008. The Battle of the Browsers contest will challenge uTest's global community of testers to uncover bugs in IE8, Firefox 3.1 (Alpha 2) and Chrome. Winners have the opportunity to be rewarded with more than $1,000 in prize money.

UTest's Cloud Testing marketplace for software application testing provides software companies with on-demand testing services by a global community of professional software testers. Throughout the duration of the contest, testers will evaluate either one or all browsers to determine how well they work, their overall performance and usability. To be eligible, a bug must be new, unknown and the first to be submitted related to a particular subject. Therefore, repeat bugs will be excluded.

Prizes for $200 will be awarded for each program tested and will be based on the clarity of reports and the depth of testing. Specifically, uTest will be looking to find winners in each of the following categories:

O Top Tester -- the tester who reports the most valuable bugs and feedback

O Top Novice -- the beginner tester who shows the most promise in software testing.

O Top Bug -- the best bug in terms of accuracy, creativity and/or severity.

O Best Feedback -- the best feedback provided during the usability survey

"This is a contest among uTesters, not a software competition," said Doron Reuveni, chief executive officer and co-founder, uTest. "At uTest, we believe strongly in the intrinsic value of healthy competition. The goal is to identify the best tester in our community and gather information surrounding potential browser vulnerabilities. This contest will utilize the wisdom of our uTester crowd and, in doing so; will provide additional information beneficial to the software development and testing communities."

UTest will provide a final report for each application and the results from the contest will be posted in the uTester community. That summary will emphasize actionable learning items for each application and not an overall comparison of all of applications. Additionally, all the bugs found will be reported back to the teams at Microsoft, Google and Mozilla. Please note that proper credit will be given to the tester who found each particular bug.

The uTest model represents an evolution in traditional software application testing. By offering virtual on-demand software testing services and a Pay-for-Performance business model, uTest provides its clientele a tremendous resource, with flexibility regarding platform, environment, geographic location and budget.

UTest's global community of testers, which recently reached a milestone of over 10,000 testers in more than 140 countries, provide on-demand software application testing services to organizations across industries. uTest's Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform made its GA launch in mid-August and has since experienced an explosive period of growth within their testing community.

For more information on the contest and eligibility, please visit http://www. utest. com/bug_battle/ (http://www. utest. com/bug_battle/).

About uTest. Inc.
UTest™, headquartered in Massachusetts, is the Cloud Testing marketplace for software application testing -- providing software companies with on-demand testing services by a global community of professional testers. Coupled with its unique pay-for-performance business model, uTest delivers a powerful "real-world" cost-effective solution providing a full range of testing services -- functional, usability, load, and performance testing throughout the product development life cycle. For more information about uTest, please visit http://www. utest. com (http://www. utest. com).

You can view uTest's blog at http://blog. utest. com/ (http://blog. utest. com/).

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Baptist Using Therapeutic Hypothermia to Save Heart Attack Patients

Baptist Using Therapeutic Hypothermia to Save Heart Attack Patients

On October 19, 2009, Baptist Medical Center's Emergency Department will begin using a new procedure, called therapeutic hypothermia, to increase a patient's chances of survival after their heart has stopped (cardiac arrest).

Ferndale, WA (Vocus) October 3, 2009

On October 19, 2009, Baptist Medical Center's Emergency Department will begin using a new procedure, called therapeutic hypothermia, to increase a patient's chances of survival after their heart has stopped (cardiac arrest).

The new procedure involves decreasing the core body temperature to 89ºF after the patient's heart has been restarted. Cooling may be started by paramedics if they have been able to restart the heart prior to getting the patient to the hospital. This involves injecting a patient with chilled intravenous (IV) fluids. Portable iceboxes (coolers) will be on ambulances to cool down the IV fluids. Upon further stabilization at Baptist's emergency room, the patient then undergoes placement of a specialized cooling catheter into a large vein in the chest and abdomen, which safely cools them down to 89º.

Baptist Emergency Department Medical Director Eric Zoog, MD said, "The American Heart Association has recommended therapeutic hypothermia following resuscitation from cardiac arrest, because the treatment has been shown to significantly improve a patient's chances of survival without brain damage."

He added that Baptist has already used this technique on one patient utilizing chilled water blankets in direct contact with the patient's skin, which enabled the patient to return to the same quality of life he had prior to his heart attack. "This treatment allows us to reduce the impact of a heart attack on a patient's body and increase their chance of survival once they get to the hospital."

Brain injury, heart dysfunction, systemic inflammation and the underlying disease that caused the cardiac arrest all contribute to the high death rate of patients who initially have their pulse re-started. Collectively, these symptoms are known as post-cardiac arrest syndrome.

This treatment method is able to increase not only a patient's chances of survival, but survival with normal or nearly normal brain function by a factor of 2.5. In fact, every sixth time a cardiac arrest patient is treated with therapeutic hypothermia, physicians can rescue one life.

Baptist and its ER physicians will make a donation of iceboxes (coolers) to American Medical Response on October 5, 2009, at 2:00 pm in the Baptist Cardiovascular Center.

"This is the only therapy that nearly triples the rate of survival after cardiac arrest," Dr. Zoog said. " Strides like this have not been made with cardiac arrest in over 30 years - since the invention of CPR."

Baptist is the only hospital in the Metro Jackson area with Chest Pain Accreditation from the Society of Chest Pain Centers.

For more information, please visit www. mbhs. org or follow on twitter at www. twitter. com/baptistmednews (http://www. twitter. com/baptistmednews)

Contact: Robby Channell 601-968-5135

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Ebates. com Announces Summer Savings with Double Dollars on Health & Beauty

Ebates. com Announces Summer Savings with Double Dollars on Health & Beauty

Buy Smart and Look Hot and with Up to 12% Cash Back

San Francisco, CA (Vocus) June 23, 2009

Ebates. com, the savvy consumer's destination for cash-back shopping, announced summer savings today of up to 12% on the Web's hottest health and beauty products. During this special summer promotion, Ebates will pay members 12% cash back on their online purchases at Lancôme and Crabtree & Evelyn, and from 6% to 10% on purchases at HSN. com, Sephora, ULTA, Gaiam, Puritan's Pride, Vitamin World, Beauty. com and Walgreens.

Ebates' Health & Beauty promotion is running now through Sunday, July 5, 2009.

"We expect Ebates shoppers to earn over $1 million in cash back during our health and beauty double dollars promotion," said Ebates CEO Kevin Johnson. "Our 8 million members make smart purchases all year long so we're happy to give them double cash back so they can pamper themselves some this summer."

Ebates shoppers always access the best coupons and lowest prices when they shop online, and now they will be able to stock up on sunscreen and other skin-care products, cosmetics, fragrances, vitamins and supplements, hair-care products, and more as they head into the summer while earning double cash back. Ebates, the pioneer in cash back shopping, features over 1,100 stores on its online shopping site, and pays its members cash back on all purchases they make on apparel, electronics, computers, home appliances and furnishings and more at these stores via Ebates. com.

For more interview requests and more information contact Becca Glover at Becca (at) 3dogagency (dot) com or (202) 250 3647

About Ebates
Over 1,000 online stores have joined the roster of retailers (http://www. ebates. com/stores/all/index. htm? navigation_id=18568) that offer cash back, special deals and coupons to members of Ebates. com. The free membership (http://www. ebates. com/help/how_ebates_works. htm) allows consumers to shop online at their favorite retailers while earning a percentage of every purchase they make; paid quarterly in the form of a "Big Fat Check" or through PayPal. From niceties to necessities, members of Ebates benefit from incentives at top-name merchants for everything from furniture to fashion and appliances to airfare. Because shopping with Ebates is hassle-free: no rebate forms to fill out and no points or miles to redeem, the site supports a strong community of savvy shoppers across the country and around the world.

Contact:
Becca Glover
Account Director
3 Dog Agency
Http://www.3DogAgency. com (http://www.3DogAgency. com)
(O) +1 202 250 3647
(M) +1 703 626 6028

1728 Connecticut Ave NW
Suite 2B
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Franchising and the Environment

Franchising and the Environment

The environment is becoming an increasingly important issue for consumers the world over and franchises could be capitalising on this growing trend and substantial customer base.

(PRWEB) June 29, 2006

The environment is becoming an increasingly important issue for consumers the world over and franchises could be capitalising on this growing trend and substantial customer base.

Potential franchising opportunities range from useful services for business to providing the public with cleaner homes and items.

A major service to all kinds of businesses is energy efficiency, which can save them thousands of pounds in the long-term. This can be achieved through installing better appliances and even by simple measures such as switching off electrical products when they are not being used.

Over the last 30 years, franchisers such as Energy Automation Systems have provided solutions to improve the energy efficiency of facilities and therefore reduce electricity bills.

They train franchisees to be able to record all the required factual, testing and historical data. This data is then transferred to staff members with expertise in electronics and engineering who can analyse it and identify problem areas.

Therefore, energy saving proposals can be made quickly and effectively and as long as the suggestions are accurate, both parties will greatly benefit.

Moving to residential properties, removing germs and improving air quality is considered "very important" by 82 per cent of homeowners in the US, according to a survey by the Illinois-based Chelsea Group.

Recent studies by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) revealed that indoor pollutant levels are in many cases between two and five times bigger than outdoor levels. 

Bad air quality has been shown to be a factor in conditions such as asthma, with the EPA stating that air quality is a factor in around 50 illnesses.

As a result, air purification franchises for homes and businesses have developed and the EPA estimates that the market is worth about $2 billion.

Similarly, people have been demanding services to filtrate water so they can drink healthier. More than 700 franchised units in the US alone serve this ever growing market, with services including filtering problem water, conditioning hard water, delivering water to homes and turning ordinary tap water into healthier drinking water.

Franchises in other sectors could benefit from having an environmental policy, which would promise that the company works to specific standards and targets such as using a certain amount of renewable energy or replanting trees for any cut down.

This could help to make the mind up of potential franchisees who will look into the ethical practices of firms when deciding whether they should become a part of a company.

Copyright Adfero Ltd 2006

Http://www. franchisedirect. com (http://www. franchisedirect. com)

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Bicycle Your Way to Health and Happiness

Bicycle Your Way to Health and Happiness

Bicycling is an enjoyable way to build strength and endurance without a high risk of placing stress on your ankles, shins, knees or hips (which is a major concern with jogging and other forms of high-impact exercise.) A recently created website, BicyleBest. com provides excellent advice on all aspects of biking. From finding the right bike to information about bike safety courses and bike tours, this site has it all.

(PRWEB) July 26, 2005

Bicycle riding is one of the most rewarding forms of cardiovascular exercise. Whether your bicycling sport of choice is mountain biking, free ride, downhill, dual slalom or cross-country you know you'll be getting a great workout while having a fun time. The number one tip is to make sure your bike fits your body properly, just like your clothes or your shoes.

The frame size of your bicycle is most important since it can not easily be changed. For maximum comfort the correct frame for you should have 1 or 2 inches of "standover." The seat, or "saddle," should be at a height that leaves you with a slight bend in the knee with your feet on the pedals. The front and back of the saddle should be horizontal, with a slight dip in the middle. And handlebar height also affects your ride and comfort. Lower handlebars equate to greater performance, while higher handlebars provide greater comfort.

Whether you're a newcomer, a part-time enthusiast, a recreational rider, or an old pro, you can get just about everything you want out of bicycle riding if you have the right knowledge and the correct equipment.

Whichever type of bicycle riding you do, your equipment needs will differ, so use the Internet, do some research and find the gear that is right for you. http://www. BicyleBest. com (http://www. BicyleBest. com), designed exclusively to provide valuable and reliable information and resources for bicycle riders, is a good place to start.

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