Planning Your Successful Career:

Not Happy With Your Nursing Career or Need to Start One? Travel Nurses are in Great Demand!


Author: EFFIONG EKPO


If you are a nurse or plan to be one you may want to check out travel nurses. The benefits are huge and the demand for nurses in the United States is in dire need.

In the United States the number of young people entering the nursing field has declined, so much so, that it is feared that when the baby boomer nurses, who will soon retire, will put an immense strain on the medical profession.

With this great demand come many incentives to entice nurses to relocate, for example:

1) If you are coming from another country, you can be sponsored to obtain visa green cards and a social security number that will allow you to start work immediately. If you have a husband and children, they also can get green cards so they can remain with you and live and work in the States.

2) The agency can assist you with moving expenses and help find a suitable lodging for you and your family.

3) Free dental, health and life insurance are often offered as an incentive,

4) 401Ks with company matches may be offered to you.

5) License and NCLEX reimbursements may be offered to you.

6) Great pay!

It helps greatly to have experience in your field because if you do become a travel nurse you can be placed in a new hospital or facility and work in your specialized field immediately.

If you are not an experienced nurse then you may want to get that under your belt. Some hospitals want you to contract with them, but if you have any desire to relocate then you may want to pass that up and continue to train for that much needed experience. Some agencies will also place therapists and technicians.

If you are the adventurous type of person and want to experience many different facilities then you can be placed for 8 to 13 weeks at a particular place where your accommodations are taken care of for you. If you provide your own accommodations then you can get a generous subsidy for it. You can discuss what type of assignment you want and how long you want to do it and how many facilities you would like to work at. When your assignment is done you may want to consider a permanent residence or you may decide to resume a new assignment at a later date.

Planning Your Successful Career:

Doing a good job is one of the most important ways to move up the ladder", says Dr. Don Bagin, Professor of Communications at Glassbro State College.

If you are one of the many people who do a good job consistently but are not noticed by top management, here are some suggestions to help you get on the fast track:

Smiling: Research has shown that people who smile are perceived to be more intelligent than those who don't.

Prioritizing: Avoid spending a great deal of time on things that aren't important just because you are good at them. The person who gets ahead is the person who establishes priorities and sets aside time for them accordingly.

Walking: Choose to walk rather than drive as often as possible. And when you do, walk at least ten to fifteen percent faster than you normally would. Somehow this faster pace communicates to others that you are a person with a mission who is eager to get the job done.

Speaking actively: Use the active voice when speaking or writing. Listen to the difference: "I prepared and delivered the reports promptly." Compare it to "The report was promptly prepared and delivered." Although the second one told you something, many more questions were left unanswered.

Knowing your boss: Get to understand your boss' personality and when to approach him or her. If your boss is a morning person, be sure that you come up with your suggestions and proposals in the morning while he is most receptive.

Volunteering: While being careful not to overdo it, volunteer for special projects and responsibilities outside of your working hours and job description.

Expressing gratitude: Develop the habit of sending brief notes of thanks to anyone who has made your day easier.

Positively speaking: Look for positive things to say about people, especially your co-workers.

Being approachable: Make yourself approachable. Let people know when and how to reach you.

Following-up: After a task-assigning meeting, follow-up immediately on those assignments that were given to you.

Spotting trends: Learn to spot trends that affect your company or agency. Be the first person to alert those in a position to capitalize on them.

Presenting effectively: Be certain that you speak clearly and precisely when making presentations. Speak with confidence and admit honestly when you don't know, but promise to return with an answer promptly.

Reading the trades: Determine which publications top management is reading, then get a copy of them so that you, too, can become knowledgeable of relevant matters.

Making contact: Establish a contact person in all your referral sources. Make it a point to meet with that person so that you can get to know each other. It will help make your future contacts easier for both of you.

Remembering your manners: Never forget to be polite or to follow the proper protocol. It lets people know that you mean business, that you take your business relationships seriously.

Put these fifteen ideas into practice, and I guarantee you that you will see yourself progressing faster and farther than you think.

Remember: When you maximize your potential, everyone wins. When you don't, we all lose.

Etienne A. Gibbs, MSW

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If you had a pen that was high-tech, yet baby-easy to use that in twenty (20) minutes of training could help you read-and-remember three (3) books, articles and reports in the time it takes others to finish one (1) would you need to know more?

Back in 1942 (World War 2) - the U. S. Air Force was having trouble teaching their pilots to quickly identify enemy planes. They created a training-tool called a tach-is-to-scope (Greek: meaning swift) that flashed visual-images on-a-screen - to improve the speed-of-viewing, together with extending long-term memory.

Did it really work?

The U.S. Air Force experts tested the tachistoscope on their crews and concluded it improved sightings 85%. It was declared mandatory-training for all pilots, co-pilots and navigators and hidden-away as Top-Secret for the duration of the war.

So?

After the U.S. and their allies won the war educators in New York adapted the governments tachistoscope for training students to read faster. It worked great students read faster, understood more, and remembered text much longer.

But there was a serious problem using this speed reading tachistoscope it was way- too-big and once the reader did not have their tool they reverted back to snailing slowly reading one-word-at-a-time. But all the PhDs agreed this speed reading thing - was a valuable contribution to reading once they figured it out.

Evelyn Wood

A Utah school teacher decided to forget about this expensive and cumbersome tachistoscope - yet keep the benefits of speed reading. She substituted the fingers-of the-hand to pace the students eyes and found her method could help students ace their studies and tests.

Starting in 1959 Evelyn Wood (my partner), graduated two-million, together with the White House staffs of four (4) U. S. Presidents Kennedy Johnson Nixon Carter.

Whats New?

In the year 2000 (Evelyn passed-on in 1995), we finished ten-years of research on an advanced speed reading program for students and executives who required the competitive edge to live on the Fast Track.

The big-improvement was the RasterMaster, a handheld laser-pen (no ink), that offered all the benefits of the tachistoscope but was easy-as-pie, had you speed learning in twenty-minutes, and best-of-all was portable.

After testing it on kids from 8th grade to high school, college, graduate-school, and executives and professionals we began to offer it at colleges and universities in the U.S.

Speed Reading 100 helps students and executives quickly add 300% to their reading speed, and up to 40% to their knowledge-skills. It helps students ace their courses, exams and degrees.

Companies and organizations use it to improve the productivity of their top-guns up to 41% - a significant amount and discovered graduates were more creative, and communicated better. These results often transferred to an improved corporate balance sheet. Money talks.

In subsequent company-research executives also showed up to 28% improvement in long-term memory in speed learning trade-books, articles, reports and memos.

Directors of Human Resources in the U.S. and internationally added Speed Reading 100 to their training programs.

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Is speed reading 100 for everybody?

Sure we recommend our twelve (12) hour live workshops for most students attending high-school, college and grad-schools (law, medical, business). The people who take it have a stubborn-streak and a burning-desire to show the world exactly how brilliant they are.

Speed Reading 100 is not everything it is only a valuable-skill that permits you to bring out your slumbering natural gifts-and-talents in learning.

Picture Speed Reading 100 as a boot-camp for folks who want to be top-of-the-heap, and have the competitive-edge. If you can imagine getting As on your exams, and receiving important promotions and raises you might consider our program.

Like all the major decisions in your life, self-improvement is a choice.

Is speed reading 100 a competition?

We all have a different pace for learning some are geniuses and pick up everything in-a-second, others (like me), are late-bloomers, and need practice and prodding from an inspired instructor - to make new strategies jell in our mind.

The only competition is reaching your personal-best.