Internet Classes for Home Schooled High Schoolers

In the past, home schooled children were academically separated from public school's vast curriculum choices. A current trend is to offer the same courses in the public school, via the Internet, to home schooled children. http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2001/06/06/loc_computer-based.html

Present Police Baton

A great self-defense weapon! Police and security guards around the world use these high quality solid steel batons. They expand to 16", 21" or 26" with just a flick of the wrist. They are effective at stopping attackers in many dangerous situations. Since criminals understand how an expandable baton works and the power they can hold, they usually back down when one is shown.

Present Police Vehicles

Lt. Joseph M. Panus demonstrates wide range of enforcement features that mobile computer terminals will provide in all 200 patrol cars in Buffalo, giving instant access to crime data, as well as tracking of police vehicles.
Harry Scull Jr./Buffalo News

Mobile computers give police instant information on motorists. A mere swipe of the bar code on your driver’s license and up pops your prior traffic convictions for officers to view on their mobile computer terminal.
Electronic eyeballs, fixed to the patrol car hood, can read five license plates a second and interact with Albany’s computers to let the officer know whether your wheels are a “steal.” In addition, all 200 of the Buffalo Police Department’s patrol cars will soon be equipped with “pucks” that beam signals to global positioning satellites, which track patrol car locations at all times. Police administrators are looking into a combination of state and local funds to help pay for the changes.

By turning patrol cars into rolling desktops with increased connectivity to the Internet, crime and accident reports can be filed directly from the scene, rather than waiting until a civilian report technician can enter the information into the computer system, said systems support analyst Jim Kaufmann.
Elimination of the paper reports also can mean quicker review by police supervisors and crime analysts who can identify and address crime hot spots and trends with stepped-up enforcement.

Present Law Enforcement Firearm

Glock GmbH (trademarked as GLOCK) is a weapons manufacturer headquartered in Deutsch-Wagram, Austria. Glock was named after its founder, Gaston Glock. The company is best known for its line of striker-fired polymer-framed pistols. Glock also currently produces equipment such as field knives and entrenching tools as well as sponsor a competitive shooting team that travels around the world promoting the company.
The Glock handguns are in use by a majority of US and international law enforcement agencies and military personnel. Glock handguns are also very popular with civilians, especially for personal protection and practical shooting. Glock currently produces 35 models of handguns. The US-led Multi National Force-Iraq has equipped the Iraqi military and the Iraqi National Police with Glock sidearms.

Present Fingerprinting Technology

EMBs using Automatic Finger Identification Systems (AFIS)

Automated fingerprint identification is the process of automatically matching one or many unknown fingerprints against a database of known and unknown prints. Automated fingerprint identification systems are primarily used by law enforcement agencies for criminal identification initiatives, the most important of which include identifying a person suspected of committing a crime or linking a suspect to other unsolved crimes.
Automated fingerprint verification is a closely-related technique used in applications such as attendance and access control systems. On a technical level, verification systems verify a claimed identity (a user might claim to be John by presenting his PIN or ID card and verify his identity using his fingerprint), whereas identification systems determine identity based solely on fingerprints.
With greater frequency in recent years, automated fingerprint identification systems have been used in large scale civil identification projects. The chief purpose of a civil fingerprint identifications system is to prevent multiple enrollments in an electoral, welfare, driver licensing, or similar system. Another benefit of a civil fingerprint identifications system is its use in background checks for job applicants for highly sensitive posts and educational personnel who have close contact with children.

The Biggest Issues in Accounting

As per the article you are about to read it talks about the biggest issues in accounting. What can it be you ask? Well is good, high, trusted, competent, and skilled people. Click on the follwoing link to read more.

www.allbusiness.com/company-activities-management/company-structures-ownership/8907452-1.html

Accounting Machines and Programs

No More Manual

The calculators, excel program, accounting calculators for smart phones, financial accounting software like Top Accounting, Solar Accounting, Tax GST, Delata 60, Easy as, USB Accounting, Quick Use Accounting, and much more are now being uses in accounting. An most of the accounting projects are being done with little or no paper. Go to the link below and read about the 12 advancement that have revolutionized the art of accounting. Very interesting.

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Accounting Firms Going Green

AN ACCOUNTING FIRM IN BEVERLY HILLS, CA, announces that as of January 2008, the firm took their final steps toward becoming paperless.

According to a July 2007 survey of accounting firms 45% of firms now
use electronic document management systems, and 32% have paperless engagements. Those numbers are certain to rise when more accounting firms realize the immense and varied benefits of going green. The latest growing trend in accounting is to become a "paperless" business.

Their goal is to utilize technology to its fullest extent. Converting their office from a paper-based system to a digital format. It benefits their clients, their firms and the environment. The Document system not only stores files in an electronic format, it helps create a uniform convention in the filing system. Given that nothing can be filed in the system without end-users giving pre-defined parameters, it helps people to search for documents the way they never could before, which will increase efficiency overall. Many firms have already taken the step in going green, this transition helps them
make the process even easier and readily available to all their users.

Web-based Infection Control Tool Helps Protect Patients

By Suzi Birz, principal, HiQ Analytics, LLC

In hospitals alone, health-care associated infections (HAIs) account for an estimated 2 million infections, 90,000 deaths and $4.5 billion in excess health care costs annually. In an effort to lower these statistics, SafetySurveillor™, a new Web-based solution from Premier, Inc., provides electronic surveillance to infection control professionals and clinical pharmacists.
“Infection prevention professionals use SafetySurveillor to quickly detect and facilitate timely interventions with actionable alerts, analysis and reports through automatic data collection and analytical routines that integrate patient, laboratory, surgery and pharmacy data,” said Angela Bivens, MSN, a senior clinical consultant with Premier.
“The interventions from the alerts affect not only patient safety, but the safety of hospital staff and visitors,” added Burns. “Additionally, the alerts and ad hoc reporting allow rapid detection of clusters and outbreaks.”
“Being open to this new technology allows infection control practitioners and clinical pharmacists do their job better by taking advantage of the timeliness and organization of the alerts,” noted Burns.

Full Article: http://www.nursezone.com/Nursing-News-Events/devices-and-technology.aspx?ID=18768&Tab=1

Automated Prescription Dispenser

A physician electronically enters a prescription into a Web-based processing system, which ties in with the InstyMeds computer and gives the patient an access code. If the patient chooses to fill the prescription before leaving the hospital, he or she enters the code at the vending machine, which knows the co-pay or deductible and will charge accordingly. InstyMeds accepts cash, and credit or debit cards. InstyMeds also dispenses patient education materials about the medication.
“It’s very helpful for rural facilities without 24-hour pharmacies in the area,” said Shelley Simkins, RN, BSN, emergency department nurse manager at Buffalo Hospital in Buffalo, Minnesota. “The nurses like it as an alternative to a regular prescription. It has decreased the number of prescriptions nurses have to call into pharmacies.”
If the patient cannot afford the medication, the hospital can direct the machine to dispense it and bill the facility for the drug. Patients experiencing difficulty operating the machine can call a 24-hour help line, staffed by a pharmacist, for assistance. Operators can look at cameras within the unit and eliminate most jams remotely.
The hospital decides what medications to stock in the InstyMeds.

Full Article: http://www.nursezone.com/Nursing-News-Events/devices-and-technology.aspx?ID=18807&Tab=1

Study Finds Electronic Health Records Improve Mortality Rates

Suzi Birz, principal, HiQ Analytics, LLC

Recent events have brought much attention to electronic health records (EHRs) and their impact on the health care system. President Obama has called for “EHRs for Americans by 2014,” and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 includes incentives for providers demonstrating “meaningful use” of EHRs. Researchers in Texas recently published the results of a study to examine the impact on clinical and financial outcomes of clinical information technologies. Ruben Amarasingham, MD, MBA, says that nurses are central to the design of any technology implementation used in health care workflow. “We examined the association between a hospital’s automation and inpatient mortality, complications, costs, and length of stay among patients with four medical conditions in a diverse group of Texas hospitals,” stated Ruben Amarasingham, MD, MBA at Parkland Health and Hospital System in Dallas, Texas. The research associated a 15 percent decrease in fatal hospitalizations with each 10-point increase of notes and records as measured with their assessment tool, indicating that greater automation is associated with reduced rates of inpatient mortality. With respect to cost, higher scores on use of the technology for test results, order entry and decision support were overwhelmingly associated with lower costs. Also, increased use was associated with the reduction in the odds of death for myocardial infarction and coronary artery bypass graft surgery.

Full Article: http://www.nursezone.com/Nursing-News-Events/devices-and-technology.aspx?ID=18841&Tab=1

Modern School Buses

Modern school buses are built with
safety in mind. From the bright
yellow color to the flashing red lights,
there are may features that are built
into the modern school bus to protect
our children from a variety of hazards
that they could face each time they
ride to school.

History of Nursing

For many nurses, the skills of nursing or caring lie at the heart of their work. Until the mid-nineteenth century, nursing was not an activity, which was thought to demand either skill or training. Nor did it command respect. As Florence Nightingale was to put it, nursing was left to those 'who were too old, too weak, too drunken, too dirty, too stupid or too bad to do anything else'. The intimate body services to be done for the patient were considered to be unseemly or immodest for young unmarried or well-bred females, especially if not a family member. Cleaning and feeding of another person were regarded as domestic tasks performed by servants.

Also, before 1880, the hospital treatment of illness was fairly rare. Where home services were adequate, a sick person was attended by the family doctor and nursed either by female family members or servants. However, from the middle of the nineteenth century, the discovery and application of anaesthetics and antiseptic surgery advanced medical technique and allowed all classes to seek treatment in hospitals. From the 1860s onwards, a series of nurses' training schools began to produce fairly large numbers of educated women who were eagerly accepted by hospital authorities whose medical officers, patients and public opinion in general were demanding higher levels of nursing skill in the wards. (http://www.gla.ac.uk/faculties/medicine/history/20thcentury/nursing/)