I am sending you this letter as a professional reference for Sandy Spinelli. I had the pleasure of working with Sandy at the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, about seven years ago, where she worked as a Membership Coordinator. While Sandy really enjoyed working at the AASM, she left to pursue other avenues that would help her to grow professionally. Sandy possesses outstanding office and administrative skills necessary to administer any project and/or task. She has an incredible eye for detail and she also possesses exceptional computer skills.…
Downloading the app will help you realize what behaviors are causing you to lose sleep. For objective 2, by the end 2018, undergraduate participants that attend the educational session will increase their GPA by ½ a point. In the session, students will receive educational information that will improve their sleep habits. For example, they will watch instructive videos relating to sleep, sleep disorders, and how it influences their academic performance and well-being. Further, the month to month sessions will guide people to identify their behavior problems and offer the most effective method to diminish the problems.…
Maria Konnikova’s article, The Walking Dead, demonstrates how important sleep truly is. Maria says “Fifty to seventy million Americans have chronic sleep disorders. ”(Pg. 1) Many sleep scientists, from the Harvard Medical School Media Fellowship, have come to the conclusion that the lack of sleep can affect a person greatly.…
This gave way to new possibilities for the way we study sleep and sleep disorders, and since then, the overnight diagnostic tests has been known as polysomnography. Polysomnography tests record many things like the brain activity, a person’s heart rate, a person’s breathing patterns, as well as movements of various parts of the human body. The use of polysomnography is now the standard in which tests for quantifying sleep and for assessing abnormal physiological events in sleep. Such as sleep apnea, periodic movements, electroencephalographic abnormalities and arousals are performed. Inadequate sleep or a person’s poor sleeping habits can result in drowsiness and impaired alertness and cognitive ability, thereby reducing a person’s productivity on the job and increasing the opportunity for human error and fatigue-related accidents.…
Families, groups, communities, organizations, and individuals are all populations in which generalist practitioners strive to give their best assistance. Practitioners often view many clients and client systems in a way in which focuses on their strengths so building on his/her capabilities while supporting them through this process will be effective. This can be known as using the strengths perspective. Along with using the client’s strengths to support their capabilities, practitioners use their ability to: engage, assess, broker services, advocate, counsel, educate, and organize on the clients behalf through professional problem solving. A practitioner’s work is not complete until he/she evaluates service outcomes so the chance for growth…
As a college student, I am studying to be in the medical field. Wanting to be in the medical field has been my dream as a kid. There are many job positions to choose from, we must investigate every single one, because it will be our career and what we live off. I want to become a registered nurse. What is a registered nurse?…
If you’re thinking about becoming a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) as a career, the opportunity to work in nationwide hospitals as an anesthesia specialist in the nursing field is waiting. Deciding on where to go to school and the area of field specialty as a nurse anesthetist has several considerations and prerequisites for gaining the experience and sharpening the skills for the job. Program Requirements The CRNA program is structured to guide the first level of education and school prerequisites in obtaining a bachelor’s in nursing (BSN). The BSN is a 4 year study plan with academic requirements of at least 3.0 GPA for all work related to the curriculum field matter and the student must consistently receive “C or better…
Critical care is the specialty I am most interested. I main reason why I wanted to become a nurse, was to become a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA). I didn’t want to become a CRNA because of the amount of money they made, it wanted to become one, because I had a great encounter with one while I was at the VA hospital having a procedure done. We discuss job satisfaction and how he got to where he is now. Through out the whole procedure he was right by my side explaining what was going.…
Sleep has been the subject of many myths. We hear about these myths from parents and friends, and some are irresponsibly spread through social media. Although it’s fun and highly entertaining to learn more about these myths, it can misleading and dangerous. There are some individuals out there who see these myths are real, thus they eventually learn to follow these to the detriment of their health. Here are some of the popular myths about sleep, and and explanation and clarification that can help you better take advantage of sleep.…
Nursing is my field of study my current occupation as a unit technician at the hospital is the help I'm receiving to work towards my future in becoming a Register Nurse. Register nurses need all the support they can receive, because the percentage of death and stress on a nurse is high. There is many support from the Texas House Representative Donna Howard provides grants to prevent Violence in the Health Care Workplace and Set Up a Confidential System for tracking rape kits. In the health care field with tend to work with different types of people with different personality from psych to jail inmates. The common harassment workers can receive from patients is violence in the workplace which is hazard for nurses and other health care workers.…
Registered Nursing The field of nursing has a wide range of careers. The thought of helping patients to recover, giving people advise on various medical conditions and how to manage them makes me enthusiastic about choosing a career in registered nursing. A Registered nurse is a professional in the field of nursing who has several roles when it comes to offering medical care. A registered nurse coordinates and delivers patient care gives guidance and counseling to patients and the public on different medical conditions and they also provide emotional care to their patients (bureau of labor statistics).…
The health care system is really designed to reward you for being unhealthy. If you are a healthy person and work hard to be healthy, there are no benefits.” - Mike Huckabee. Personal Health provides many different aspects of life that involve - emotional, intellectual, social, spiritual, and physical which is key to success in college and beyond. Personal Health has many responsibilities that involve - purpose, method, findings, and implications.…
Ironically, my greatest inspiration for a long-term career goal was in fact from a well-known TV show called Botched. Patients walk into Dr. Paul Nassif's office looking to enhance their appearances leaving them with a higher self-esteem than what they initially came in with. My interest in plastic surgery flourished and ultimately I found my career path after years of questioning my future endeavors. The opportunity to attend the USC summer program will allow me to explore my interests, develop new skills, and get closer to my goal of becoming a plastic surgeon.…
If the consequences of the nurses’ workloads are affecting the patient care, the dangers of patient survival rates will start to decrease. Insufficient sleep is not only putting the patients in danger, but is also putting the their own lives on the line. Rogers states, “Laboratory studies have shown that moderate levels of prolonged wakefulness can produce performance impairments equivalent to or greater than levels of intoxication deemed unacceptable for driving, working, and/or operating dangerous equipment”(Rogers…
Dr. Wendy Troxel is a senior behavior and social scientist at RAND Corporation for research and development. In her free time, she teaches psychiatry and psychology at the University of Pittsburgh where she received her Ph.D. in clinical-health psychology (“Wendy M. Troxel”). She received a license as a clinical psychologist and is a certified behavioral sleep medicine specialist. During her speech, she even mentions that she is a sleep researcher and, “so [she] knows far too much about sleep and the consequences of sleep loss. I know that I'm depriving my son of the sleep he desperately needs as a rapidly growing teenager.”…