7 Ways to Search Online for Nusing Scholaships
May 6th
Even with rising tuitions and downward economies, there is more money for education than you think. Private and government funds for scholarships and grants aren’t that hard to find, and here are 7 ways to find them.
- Nursing Scholarships.us has a huge database of public and private scholarships and research grants for undergraduate and graduate degrees in nursing. The database is constantly updated, so keep checking back.
- Discover Nursing has an easy to use scholarship search that lets you enter in your state, GPA, ethnicity and education level. It even tells you how many scholarships have GPA and ethnicity requirements – you might qualify for a scholarship just for being you.
- Fastweb is one of the largest scholarship search engines on the internet. You enter in a lot of information into the search categories so it can find scholarships that uniquely apply to you – your age, education level, your major, military status and gender.
- The Health Resources and Services Administration website has a page of grant and scholarship opportunities for health care providers and health professionals. The page lists the name of the scholarship, links to details, and the application due dates.
- If you’re a minority interested in nursing, there is sure to be a scholarship for you on the MinorityNurse website. Scholarships are handpicked, which does half of the work for you if you are searching the web for scholarships for minorities.
- CampusRN recently launched a scholarship fund for nursing programs and students, with scholarship winners chosen from six different regions across the country. Each scholarship is worth $2500.
- GiveMeScholarships is a site that you will need once you have a few scholarships picked out to apply to. The website is run by a real scholarship judge who gives advice on how to write your application, and ace the interview if there is one. This is a must-read before you put pen to application paper.
7 Free Web Apps to Track Your Medical Health Over Time
Feb 16th
Access to the internet has simplified and enriched our life. It also motivates us to stay healthy. The myriad tracking tools available online have made health and fitness an interesting and attractive proposition for many of us. Web applications that enable us to track our medical health tell us where we are going with our health and we can take remedial action as soon as we spot a trend that’s not right.
Here we list 7 free web apps to track your medical health over time –
1. Traineo – A website that combines interactive applications and community support to help create personalized weight-loss programs for people. A user-friendly log of daily caloric intake and exercise lets you track your progress in terms of weight lost / gained and physical fitness levels tracked by checking exercise trends. It’s a simple tool that does not come with many sophisticated analysis features; however a community-focus and finding like-minded members to share ideas with is one of the endearing features of this free web application.
2. Heart360 – A free online tool to monitor hearth health and reduce risk of heart attack, stroke, and heart disease. The tool helps you to track and manage steps for reducing risk of high blood pressure, cholesterol, blood glucose, and more. You can store health information as a secure online record that only you control. Handy for tracking and sharing with caregivers and health professionals.
3. SparkPeople – The portal offers a combination of medical information, a vibrant and participative community, and numerous tools to track nutrition and fitness. The combined effect of all these is that individuals that can stay honest with their diet plans and lifestyles will benefit and attain a healthy weight. You can track the consumption of nutrients including carbohydrates, proteins, fats, and also calories. Total consumption is displayed in a tabular or graphical form and you can learn about your progress. Track cardio exercises in terms of time spent or calories burnt. Overall, a nice web application that can positively affect your medical health provided you show the intent.
4. DoubleCheckMD – A simple idea executed brilliantly. The application is a truly exhaustive database of drugs, drug-drug interaction and potential adverse reactions to drugs. Use it to track your shifts from one medicine to another and the implications on your body, particularly any increase or decrease in side effects. Once you’ve added the name of the drug and the condition you are taking it for, the application will throw up a detailed evaluation about the drug including components known to cause side effects. If you recognize the side effects you can resolve them by altering the medication in consultation with your physician.
5. FreeMD – This incredible free web application does much better than just track your medical health; it guides you based on the symptom you mention. The application is capable of analyzing more than three thousand symptoms and injuries for people of all age groups. You undergo an interview based on the symptoms you enter and at the end the “resident doctor” offers recommendations. The site generates a page that carries your health data to be used for future reference or to share with your physician.
6. HighxLow – Track your daily biorhythms by simply posting to twitter. Post when you’re feeling good and mention the reason. Post when you’re feeling low and state why. You can also cheer up someone feeling low by twittering some words of encouragement. You can view a graphical representation of how you’re feeling and find out the causes that consistently make you feel high and single out reasons that make your shoulders droop. You can use the information to work on improving your mental and physical well-being.
7. Reliefinsite – ReliefInsite.com™, is a patented, secure, HIPAA-compliant web-based platform that lets you keep track of your pain based on symptoms, lifestyle, medications and a host of other parameters. The pain is characterized into descriptively worded categories such as aching, stabbing, nagging, gnawing, and more. It is also graded for severity. The consequences of the pain on your body and lifestyle are noted and an attempt is made to measure them. The entire exercise culminates in you having a better understanding of the type of pain, its cause, and best treatment procedure for you.