Recent Articles
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History proves community pharmacy is far from extinction
Greg L. Alston PharmaceuticalI read with great interest a Drug Topics blog post by Truman Lastinger, RPh, titled "Is community pharmacy a dying profession?" While his article laments the loss of control of our profession to third-party actors, the storm of responses is even more telling.
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Doctors continue to hate their jobs — Is the ACA to blame?
Scott E. Rupp Medical & Allied HealthcareIn news that we likely all knew (or had an inkling of), physicians are less happy than they have been or could be, a new survey suggests. There are a number of reasons for the lack of job satisfaction, including bureaucracy and a greater focus on technology and data entry, but the data reflected here — in a recent survey from the healthcare solutions group Geneia — is nothing new. Headlines have been gathering for some time that suggest similar results.
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Should schools be allowed to copyright teachers’ work?
Bambi Majumdar EducationA growing debate about copyrighting K-12 students' and teachers' work is taking place across school districts. Universities have known and valued their faculty's intellectual property for a long time, resulting in detailed contracts and intellectual property rules. Ostentatiously these "work made for hire" contracts are especially focused on research papers and documents that have been created using university resources.
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Everything your organization needs to know about EPLI
D. Albert Brannen Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementEmployers are subject to a plethora of employment-related litigation under state and federal statutes and common law claims. Employment Practices Liability Insurance (EPLI) can protect employers from these claims, but premiums, deductibles and coverages vary with the terms and conditions of each policy.
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5 amazing innovative processes in food packaging
Bambi Majumdar Food & BeverageFood packaging has been long been a concern for scientists and the food-and-beverage industry alike. With growing consumer awareness and health concerns, these packages have become even more of a focus, particularly when present-day food habits include more refrigeration and preservation than ever before.
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Spring break highlights rosy outlook for travel industry
Bambi Majumdar Travel, Hospitality & Event ManagementWith spring break showing healthy travel figures all around, industry stalwarts are convinced that 2015 will be a big year that will set real progress in motion. Heading into spring break, various U.S. airlines were looking at a more than 2 percent increase in their spring travel profitability.
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Why don’t things get done around here?
Anne Rose Business Management, Services & Risk Management"Why don’t things get done around here?" Is this a familiar lament in your office? These "things" can range from the mundane, like cleaning the dishes in the break room, to more strategic things, like a website overhaul or marketing campaign. Here are some reasons why "things" are left undone along with some suggestions on how to fix them.
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Using social media to advance the nursing profession
Keith Carlson Medical & Allied HealthcareIn the 21st century, it's a given that social media is a ubiquitous tool used equally by professionals, businesses, corporations and laypeople. While many forms of social media may be perceived as being superficial or lacking in depth, the nursing profession has seen a veritable explosion of salient and powerful social media use by individual nurses and nursing organizations.
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FDA approves new CPR devices that may increase cardiac arrest survival
Lynn Hetzler Medical & Allied HealthcareOn March 9, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved new CPR devices that might improve patient's chances of surviving cardiac arrest. Only 7 percent of the 300,000 out-of-hospital patients with cardiac arrests each year survive, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), despite the fact that two-thirds of these patients receive treatment from emergency medical service providers.
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‘Summer is coming’ for fish sales
Kevin Plazak Pet CareThe Stark family, from the TV show "Game of Thrones", has a popular saying: "Winter is coming." It means that times will be hard and lean for a while. When it comes to fish sales, the opposite is true for pet stores: "Summer is coming." The challenge of summer sunshine and good weather is that it really slows the sales of fish. People are busy outside rather than looking at their fish tank. There are options to improve your summer sales.