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• Selecting and rewarding star students in your music classroom

  Aileen Miracle Education

  Looking for a great way to keep students engaged and focused during music class? In this article, I’m writing about one of my favorite classroom management strategies: choosing star students. A star student, in my classroom, is a student who has showcased exemplary behavior during music class. Perhaps this child was participating quite a bit, or was singing his/her best, or was helping another child. This child is chosen at the end of the class, and is given some kind of reward.

• Congress considers net neutrality, digital divide laws

  Michelle R. Matisons Science & Technology

  Your first time logging on to the internet may have been decades ago, but battles over its regulations rage on as the U.S. House just passed a huge hurdle by embracing net neutrality. The Senate is now considering the Save the Internet Act, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has declared it "dead on arrival," signaling that the battle for net neutrality is ongoing. In 2017, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) repealed net neutrality rules established by the Open Internet Order of 2015. The main issue here is equal treatment for all internet data.

• 5 surprising ways to create a more patient-friendly vibe at your practice

  Lisa Mulcahy Healthcare Administration

  You know that patient satisfaction is crucial. Because of this, you no doubt check all the standard boxes to keep people happy — you're flexible with appointment times, try not to make patients wait too long, and instruct your staff to be courteous. Cutting-edge research suggests that these steps may not be enough. Your patients can feel a lot more reassured, supported and comfortable if you make the effort to employ some unexpected — but incredibly effective — steps to create a more helpful, inclusive practice environment.

• 3 steps to impactful sexual harassment prevention training

  Catherine Iste Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  #MeToo has had a significant impact on organizational awareness of pervasive harassment issues. The number of states implementing sexual harassment prevention training requirements continues to increase, as does the number of progressive organizations offering training regardless of external requirements. But does all this training do anything to address the problem? Here are three steps to increase the chances it does.

• Treating bacteria in urine: IDSA recommendation update

  Dorothy L. Tengler Medical & Allied Healthcare

  Accurate diagnosis of urinary tract infections depends on both the presence of symptoms and a positive urine culture, although in most outpatient settings this diagnosis is made without the benefit of culture. Asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB), the presence of bacteria in the urine without the symptoms of an infection, is common and has been a contributor to antibiotic misuse, which promotes resistance. According to updated ASB guidelines released by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), which recommend avoiding screening in certain groups of patients who don’t have symptoms, such as healthy non-pregnant women, elderly patients, those with diabetes and spinal cord injuries, new groups include infants and children, those who have had joint replacement or organ transplants.

• Are you measuring the right things?

  Linda Popky Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  The good news about today's technology-enabled world is that we have the ability to measure just about anything. And the bad news is that in today’s technology-enabled world, we have the ability to measure just about anything. We are literally drowning in data points — some of them more useful than others, but all of them screaming for our attention. How do you determine on which measurements to focus? Here's the key point to remember: What gets measured gets managed.

• Using point-of-care ultrasound can shorten pulse checks during CPR

  Lynn Hetzler Medical & Allied Healthcare

  Emergency department physicians have started using point-of-care ultrasounds (POCUS or POC ultrasound) to identify potentially reversible causes of pulseless electrical activity (PEA) in cardiac arrest patients. Increasing use of POC ultrasound has even led to its current recommendation by the American Heart Association (AHA). In PEA, the monitor will show electrical activity in the heart but the patient will not have a palpable pulse. Also known as electromechanical dissociation, PEA accounts for approximately 20 percent of out-of-hospital deaths.

• Study: Teeth whitening products may do more harm than good

  Tammy Hinojos Oral & Dental Healthcare

  Home teeth whitening kits are a popular and easy way to brighten your smile. You can buy a variety of teeth whitening strips at the grocery store and you can get more potent, faster-working formulations from your dentist. You place the strips over your teeth and leave them in place for a few hours. A few days or weeks later? Voila! Brighter, whiter choppers. Americans spend more than a billion dollars a year on these teeth whitening products. But a new study shows that while these products do whiten teeth, they may also be damaging them.

• Workplaces that work — finding synergy between people and place

  Michael J. Berens Interior Design, Furnishings & Fixtures

  Do great workplaces make better workers, or do great workers make the most of their workplaces? It sounds like a chicken-or-egg question, but in practice, the answer is more complex. New research suggests that what makes workplaces work well is finding the appropriate synergy between the occupants and the environment. According to Gensler's U.S. Workplace Survey 2019, what people want most from their workplace is a great experience. What makes for a great experience, Gensler's researchers found, are not lots of extracurricular amenities and hip socializing spaces but a flexible environment that supports the various ways employees need to work.

• Travel2020: 9 travel gadgets you never knew you needed

  Lark Gould Travel, Hospitality & Event Management

  This year’s Travel Goods Show in Las Vegas brought forth plenty of new luggage, carry-on solutions, and novel ways to rest on a plane. But the show, which brings together buyers and manufacturers in this $31.1 billion market, also highlighted solutions for things not always identified as problems. Some useful, if not quirky, innovations surfaced that deserve their moment in the spotlight, even if that light is a dim beam streaming from a ceiling panel on a plane.

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