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“I Suspect Its Hard to Love a Nurse. Were Scared, Mired by Anxiety, and Tired”: Nurse Pens Honest Post About the Reality of Nursing

ShareTweetPin “I suspect it is hard to love a nurse. We get up early and don’t have time to drink coffee over the newspaper. We come home late and are too tired to cook. We work extra because we know there are sick people who need us. We miss weekend events, holidays, birthdays. We don’t get too excited over your minor “boo-boo”. We have seen far worse. We don’t want to talk when we come home. We have talked all day. We don’t want to move when we come home.…

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‘More than 50,000 new police officers needed’

But those leading the recruitment drive now say the total needed is much bigger because they have to factor in police officers who will be resigning or retiring from the service. Current figures show that only one in 10 candidates who applies to join the police is successful – meaning half a million would have to apply to reach the 53,000 goal. The figure has been reached by the Uplift team responsible for recruitment. It includes Home Office officials alongside representatives from the College of Policing and the National Police…

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My Mom Still Waves Goodbye to Me. She Still Makes Me Meals When I Visit. A Mom-Heart Doesnt Change Just Because Her Kids Are Adults.

ShareTweetPin “My mom still waves goodbye to me. She stands out on her driveway and waves. Sometimes even blows me a kiss. She still makes me meals when I come to visit. All of my favorite meals are made by her. There is just something about the way she cooks. She still buys me random things she sees at the store that she thinks I will like. She is usually right. She still lets me call her when I’m bored and just need someone to talk to. Become A Contributor…

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Women hold third of board roles at top UK firms

The review’s chief executive, Denise Wilson, told the BBC that problems such as unconscious bias and gender stereotypes around what a leader should look like were preventing further progress. “I think 33% is a very good start, but as we can see, we have a lot further to go before we see a good gender balance in the leadership of British business,” she said. ‘All the good women have been snapped up’ UK’s top firms fail to increase ethnic diversity – report Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom said that businesses had…

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Investors Rush to Scrub Ties to Firm Behind Iowa Clusterf*ck

Hours after a debacle that marred Mondays Iowa Democratic presidential caucuses, investors in a company hired to tabulate votes through a new mobile app worked to distance themselves from the company at the center of the chaos, scrubbing digital trails publicly connecting them to the firm. The chaos in Iowa on Monday evening put a microscope on one of Democratic Partys youngest and fastest-rising digital stars, Tara McGowan, prompting blog post announcing the groups investment. McGowan herself had said that ACRONYM had ACRONYMs website boasted that it had launched Shadow.…

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35 Times People Spotted Such Fake Instagrammers, Its Borderline Ridiculous (New Pics)

reply View More Replies… Bored Panda spoke to Siobhan Ward, a primary therapist at Life Works, a rehabilitation centre that provides treatment for addictions and eating disorders, about the scope of media addiction in the United Kingdom. “If you broke ‘social media addiction’ down into categories, it would encompass other process or behavioural addictions, such as porn and gambling, as well as eating disorders, especially predominant with the likes of Instagram. It may be that the addiction is not with the social media itself, but the social media has become a tool…

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We Broke Up With Netflix

ShareTweetPin It’s not you, it’s me. Isn’t that what people say when they break up with someone. Well, I guess you could say that’s true with Netflix (among other networks) with us. It wasn’t so much specifically what Netflix was bringing to the table, but rather it became a realization of how that was affecting us. It became all about us, about what we needed in our lives at this point and time. Allow me to expound. I can remember about 8 1/2 years ago driving down the street in…

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The US economy added 225,000 jobs in January, beating expectations

New York (CNN Business)The US economy added 225,000 jobs in January, as the surprisingly strong pace of hiring continues. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate edged slightly higher to 3.6%, as more people decided to look for jobs. But the sector’s weakness isn’t yet a cause for concern for investors until transportation jobs follow a similar pattern, said JJ Kinahan, chief market strategist at TD Ameritrade. This suggests the manufacturing downturn is somewhat contained. A slump in transportation jobs would imply a more broad-based downturn in the production, trade and delivery of…

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New Killer Immune Cell Discovery Is A Step Towards “Universal” Cancer Therapy

Scientists have discovered a new soldier of the immune system that could hold the power to treat most types of cancer.  A new study, reported in the journal Nature Immunology, has documented the discovery of a T-cell armed with a new type of receptor that is able to identify and kill most human cancer types while ignoring healthy cells.  Although independent experts warn that this discovery is still in its infancy, it could pave the way towards a highly sought after “universal” cancer therapy in the future. A T-cell is a…

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