High-Tech Nursing

It’s one of the coolest things I’ve ever done.”

-Paul Smith, RN

The article talks about high-tech devices that today’s nurses use to save lives everywhere. One of them used by Donna Musser, a registered nurse. After 8 year old Michael Higgins collapsed and his heart giving out Donna Musser saved him using a AED (Automated External Defibrillator). The AED send an electric shock through his body restarting his heart.

With the many advances in technology, people can use that technology to save lives. Like sending exact amounts of medicine through a person’s vein or measuring a person oxygen level. Before nurses just relied on observations but now nurses use a pulse oximeter to measure oxygen.

Paul Smith also a registered nurse tells that nursing student practice on high-tech mannequins. At New York’s University of Buffalo, practices on a SimMan. Nurses use technology advances in video games to practice real life situations like a ill newborn. They must make decisions in orders to help their patient.

Making Scents

Making Scents in about Hannah Follis who is a research and development chemist at Illume in Bloomington, Minnesota. Illume is a candle company that makes scented candles. She has always loved candles, fragrance, and perfume. She is always trying new products at home. In high school she was the always interested in biology while others were sleeping. She went to the University of Minnesota where she majored in biology and minored in chemistry. After she graduated she got a job at Illume

When she makes a candle she first must make a scent. After that the product is shown to retailers. Follis does more test trying to make it perfect. Follies has worked on hundreds, if not thousand of scented candles. With many combinations are possible it interests her. She enjoys work on scents and how the customer is happy with her work. She dreams of becoming a master perfumer someday. She plans to go graduate school and continuing researching. But for now she is happy creating scents for candles. Anybody interested in a career in science she says “just go for it. She says classes are hard but its rewarding in the end.

Everywhere A Sign

Express yourself for a living as an America Sign Language interpreter

Express yourself for a living as an America Sign Language interpreter.

“Storytelling is fun. You become the characters.”

-Ruth Murphy, Certified ASL Interpreter

“Everywhere A Sign” is talks about careers as a sign languages interpreter. There are 25 million Americans who are deaf or hearing impaired. That’s 10% of the U.S. Population. Hinde Nessanbaum, an interpreter talks of his experience saying,” it affects us all.” He’s interpreted birth for babies being born to deaf parent and telling people they have cancer. A professional interpretation can help in many ways such as in a court, caring, hospitals, being at a school for the dead, and special education teacher in public/private school. In order to become a professional sing language interpreter you must take college-level classes, and then tested to become certified. Being a professional can lead to may opportunities. They make $ 76,000 on average, so you can be make $50-75$ an hour. Some high schools offer courses in ASL, so if your interested. If not, then you can look for classes at a local community college.

“Being accepted in the deaf community is one of the greatest rewards”

-Katie Forstrom, 19, studying ASL

Picture Power

Capture your dreams with a Goals Collage

Imagination is more important than knowledge...

-Albert Einstein

The article Picture Power is about using your imagination to capture your dreams. Imagination can help you in many ways you can’t imagine! It can help you with your future. But can imagination become reality? Of course it can but only you can make it happen. One way to motivate you is to create a “Goals Collage,” in it will be pictures, words, quotes, anything that that represent you and mean something or you can look at the collage when you are feeling down and need a lift.

To create a “Goal Collage” is a relatively simple matter. What you first need to know is all the goals you want to achieve in your life. It could be anything from your dream home, sports cars to pictures of your heroes. It’s really is up to your imagination and what you want out of your life. After you are finished put it somewhere where you will always see it and make it happen.

Lights, Camera, Internet Hookup

Interested in a production career? The web is the new frontier.

The article Light, Camera, Internet Hookup is about Doug Cheney who started his career making diminutive films to producing 90 second films. Thanks to the internet Cheney’s viewers skyrocketed to millions. Doug Cheney first work was, Sam Has 7 Friends, a internet-based serial drama appeared on Youtube, Rewer, iTunes, and has its own web site. Its variously described as a soap opera or murder mystery. His next recognized work was Prom Queen, the series is an 80-episode teenage soap opera released in bite-sized 90-second chunks that typically end with a stirring cliffhanger. The plot follows the live of group high school seniors anxiously awaiting Prom as a murder mystery eerily unfolds.

There are many small series of shows such as Squeegee, even though it might not make it and be huge and be on TV, its just a starting point. The internet today gives people interested in a career in production to show their talents and hopefully get noticed by others. Before that they would send their scripts in hoping to be read or get a reply back. But now people are looking on the internet for talent. So show your talent.

Risky Business

Here’s how to stay out of harm’s way on the job this summer.

The article “Risky Business” is basically about avoiding and being aware of the dangers during any summer job. Many teens died due to work related injuries and many visit the hospital. For a restaurant job you must be aware of hot pans, food spills, and knives especially. Also watch for the kitchen floor because it may be wet and slippery. So wear the right shoes to avoid any danger to you or to others. At any retail job, it may seem like the safest job, but it causes the most number of deaths in young workers. Because they are more at risk to getting robbed, so you must be ready to handle a situation like this. So never work by yourself. Watch for heavy lifting because you can throw out your back. For any outdoor job always wear sunscreen and always drink water to keep hydrated. For any heavy-machinery jobs always watch your back and know your limits. You must be alert every time and protect your ears.

Up in Arms

I trust these people with the lives of my family”

-Superintendent David Thweatt

At the Harrold Independence School in Texas teachers are allowed to carry firearms. Superintendent David Thweatt says Harrold’s teachers must protect their students. The school is 30 miles from the cloest police station. “The only thing you’ll get if you scream out here is a rattlesnake or a coyote looking your way” he says. The district can’t afford security, so it had teachers to carry weapons instead. But with teachers carry guns it creates a putting kids at risk.

Statistically, the safest place for a child to be is in school right? We may have problems in our schools, but not to the point where we need to arm our teachers. I think that teachers carrying guns is a little extreme. But as a high school student I think that more measures must be taken to protect children such as, metal detectors.

In other countries like Thailand, where they have been waging a bloody fight with Muslim separatists for the last two years, some teachers carry weapons for self defense as they are viewed as part of the government. In Israel, teachers are not allowed to carry weapons in the school, but security guards at the entrances are armed. Children in countries such as Israel and Thailand are far more at risk to daily violence than students in America.

I think this a bad idea but students like me are unprotected, sitting in class, are basically "sitting ducks" for any sort of violence, whether it is from within the school, or from others coming in from outside the school.