Month: June 2011

Staying in Shape While Working as a Nurse Poses Challenges

Staying in Shape While Working as a Nurse Poses Challenges

Nurses, along with being busy with their work, families, and other commitments, are encouraged to be role models for healthy living to their patients. So how can a nurse fit exercise into a packed daily routine? Read on for helpful tips! Gary Scholar, the author of Fit Nurse: Your Total Plan for Getting Fit and […]

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Stanbridge Nursing Students Improve Patient Care By Breaking Down Language Barriers

Stanbridge Nursing Students Improve Patient Care By Breaking Down Language Barriers

For the Vocational Nursing students at Stanbridge College, learning proper communication is a major emphasis in their curriculum. When the nursing students of cohort FTQ ran into a challenging situation communicating with a non-English speaking patient their solution was to go beyond the textbook and demonstrate their personal dedication to ensure the highest level of […]

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Cutting the Power Cord: Recharging your smartphone on your desk lamp and beyond

Cutting the Power Cord: Recharging your smartphone on your desk lamp and beyond

Tom’s Hardware Guide takes a look at the current state of Wireless Power and potential future incarnations of powering devices without cords or cables.  Today, Powermat is available in the Chevy Volt, and Qualcomm is in discussions with auto manufacturers to incorporate their solution into vehicles.  Bosch is working with Qi wireless power to recharge […]

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Jumping on the USB 3.0 bandwagon

Jumping on the USB 3.0 bandwagon

Tech Report is out with an update on the state of USB 3.0 for those not lucky enough to have recently purchased a motherboard or system with built-in USB 3.0, and answers the question “is it that much better than USB 2.0?”.  Transfers of mixed files sizes (both reads and writes) took about half the […]

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Stanbridge College Sponsors Foster Youth Graduation at Orangewood

Stanbridge College Sponsors Foster Youth Graduation at Orangewood

Stanbridge College was pleased to be a supporter of the graduation ceremony of twenty eight students of the Orangewood Children’s Foundation, an organization in Orange County, California that works to successfully transition emancipated foster youth, support children in foster care, strengthen at risk families and break the cycle of child abuse. Stanbridge College supports a […]

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Nurses Meet the Challenge of Mass Causalities

Nurses Meet the Challenge of Mass Causalities

Nurses working at busy hospitals need to keep their composure at all times, but receiving a large number of critically injured patients at once requires nurses to use all of their skills and training. When a gunman shot innocent bystanders at an event for Congresswomen Gabrielle Giffords outside a grocery store in Tucson, Arizona, the […]

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Stanbridge College hosts Allied Health and Vocational Nursing Career Fair

Stanbridge College hosts Allied Health and Vocational Nursing Career Fair

On June 7, 2011 Stanbridge College hosted their biannual Allied Health and Vocational Nursing Career Fair. Stanbridge College’s Vocational Nursing and Occupational Therapy students were able to network with over 30 southern California health care organizations. The students were able to explore new career opportunities and gather advice on what employers are looking for in […]

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Serving the Orange County Needy with a Warm Meal and a Smile

Serving the Orange County Needy with a Warm Meal and a Smile

On Saturday June 11, the Stanbridge community once again gathered at the Lighthouse Ministries Church in Costa Mesa to serve the homeless of Orange County. Upon arrival, over 300 adults and children were greeted by a receiving line of the volunteers ready to welcome and invite them in for a warm meal. The needy were […]

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The Internet Revolution: World Tests IPv6

The Internet Revolution: World Tests IPv6

Wednesday, June 8 was World IPv6 Day, a large scale 24 hour experiment aimed at indentifying problems associated with IPv6, an upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol IPv4, reported an article on NetworkWorld. Over 400 organizations, including Google, Facebook, AT&T, Cisco and Microsoft all participated along with other businesses, universities and government agencies enabling […]

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Favorite Charity Contest to Support the Joplin Tornado Disaster

Favorite Charity Contest to Support the Joplin Tornado Disaster

Standbridge College announces the quarterly Favorite Charity Contest where students, faculty and staff are encouraged to submit their favorite charity and why the Stanbridge community should contribute to its mission. This quarter, Stanbridge College would like to support the town of Joplin, Missouri as it recovers from the devastating tornado hits in May. Please post […]

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