Online Continuing Education: June 2012

Friday, June 22, 2012

Medical and Health Care Industry Careers Grow In Numbers

As the need for medical healthcare in every community arises, career opportunities in the said filed also pitch high as surveys says that there will be more employment opportunities for individuals in the next eight years for the healthcare and medical industry fields. This year 2012 has pitched a curved ball as far as employment projections go—surprisingly, it has gone against doctors, but not against most everyone else in the healthcare industry.The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released in February its employment projections for the next eight years, reporting that four industries will...

Dangerous Chemical Exposures Spotted In Different Places by OSHA

As the work-safety watchdog continues to remind contractors and companies to maintain and follow their standards for safety at work, there are still those who are caught violating their standards causing accidents and unnecessary situations at workplaces that compromise the worker’s safety. Lead is a heavy metal that has a pernicious impact on health for both the young and the old. It’s actually a slow-acting poison (it takes months to years before symptoms manifest themselves) that leads to long-term to lifelong serious physical and mental health problems. In heavy lead poisoning, it is fatal. The...

Beauty Industry Grows As Tanning Issues Also Grows

The year 2011 has been quite a better year for the salon industry and this 2012 could become an add up positive year for them – despite the fact of the arousing issue against tanning that experts says it is dangerous to one’s health. Despite improving economic conditions, 2011 still proved to be a hairy escape from the red for a number of industries, including housing and construction. The year, however, turned out to be a good one for the hair-skin-and-nails sector—as well as certainly for all the salon professionals with a cosmetology license.According to the Professional Salon Industry...

Growth of HealthCare Industry

NEWS: Healthcare Posts Excellent Growth TrajectoryA 4.2 million healthcare jobs is projected by Center for Health Workforce Studies at the University of Albany by 2020 and according to the Employer Needs Assessment Report, 10k employees are required by medical facilities between now and 2013 in Texas alone. Of the 155,000 jobs added to the economy in April 2012, 19,000 were created by the booming healthcare industry, reported the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The health of the healthcare sector was confirmed by the Center for Health Workforce Studies at the University of Albany, State University...

HealthCare Industry for the Next 8 Years

Healthcare Jobs Among the Growth Careers in the Next Eight YearsThe Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projects that the healthcare industry will be one of the four sectors that will experience job growths by 2020. They expect 5.6 million new healthcare jobs by the said year. This year 2012 has pitched a curved ball as far as employment projections go—surprisingly, it has gone against doctors, but not against most everyone else in the healthcare industry.The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released in February its employment projections for the next eight years, reporting that four industries...

Spray On Tan Dangers

COSMETOLOGY NEWS-Hold That Spray-on Tan! After news about the dangers of indoor tanning, health and safety issues are also being released with spray on tan products. Medical experts has tested different products and discovered that it can be a potential cause of genetic changes and DNA damage. Getting a tan these days has gotten a bit more difficult it seems. Hot on the heels of well-publicized studies on the dangers of indoor tanning to health and safety, comes news that the hitherto hot alternative to getting that bronzed look, spray-on tan, is just as bad.The news might impact business in...

Salon Industry Growth - 2011

Cosmetology News: 2011 Salon Industry Posts Robust Growth2011 may have been a problem or a struggling year for some industry, but not the beauty/cosmetology sector. The beauty industry has been reported to have had a revenue growth of more than $70 billion in the said year. Despite improving economic conditions, 2011 still proved to be a hairy escape from the red for a number of industries, including housing and construction. The year, however, turned out to be a good one for the hair-skin-and-nails sector—as well as certainly for all the salon professionals with a cosmetology license or cosmetology...

Indiana Bromine Poisoning

OSHA NEWS: Bromine Poisoning in IndianaGreat Lakes Chemical Corp has been cited by OSHA with 18 serious health and safety violations after their December 2011 inspection of their El Dorado Facility. After discovering that the company had exposed workers to bromine, more than $120k worth of penalties were proposed. Bromine, a naturally occurring element, was formerly used as a sedative, but that pharmaceutical use has long fallen out of favor. Today bromine is usually found in products intended for agriculture and sanitation, as well as in fire retardants. Because bromine is highly reactive, accidental...

OSHA Citations for Lead Exposure

OSHA Cites Heraeus Materials for Lead OverexposureLead is a heavy metal that has a pernicious impact on health for both the young and the old. It’s actually a slow-acting poison (it takes months to years before symptoms manifest themselves) that leads to long-term to lifelong serious physical and mental health problems. In heavy lead poisoning, it is fatal.The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has proposed penalties of $45,265 for Heraeus Materials Technology LLC, which it found to have committed several health and safety violations, including allowing some of its workers to...

OSHA Penalizes Brooklyn Contractor, Warned other New Jersey Construction Companies

A Brooklyn contractor has been cited by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) for safety violations after a building structural collapse in Brighton Beach resulted in a worker’s death. Meanwhile, the work-safety watchdog has also issued a call to action to New Jersey construction companies following four serious worker-fall accidents. OSHA reported that SP&K Construction was erecting a multistory building in November 2011 when the front bays of the third, fourth, and fifth floors suddenly gave way during concrete-pouring operation on the fourth and third floors....

FDA Warns Americans with Mercury-Contained Beauty Products, Says It’s Dangerous to One’s Health

The Federal Drug Administration (FDA) is warning women to avoid beauty products that contain mercury. FDA said that the toxic metal has been found in soaps, skin-care products, and cosmetics carried by shops that tend to cater to African-American, Latino, Asian, and Middle Eastern clients. The agency has identified 35 potentially poisonous beauty products, including ones under the brands Crema Aguamary, Diana, Lusco, and Stillman’s which are produced in other countries and sold illegally in the U.S. Many professional cosmetologists across the country—such as those who have in Kentucky with...

ICD-10 Gathers Supporting Platforms from DST Health Solutions

Care-Management Suite Supports ICD-10 Compliance, Three Myths About ICD-10 With the challenges of ICD-10 code set in mind, DST Health Solutions recently released its PowerSTEPP, PowerMHC, PowerMHS, and AMISYS Advance core administration platforms—all designed to support ICD-10 compliance, including both ICD-9 and ICD-10 processing, the new focus and controversial area of concern for providers of medical coding online training and medical coding online courses. "Our team has really gone the extra mile to ensure that our systems support ICD-10 compliance and remain flexible," noted Steve Sabino,...

AMA Wants ICD-10 To Be Delayed by Two Years, Texas Docs Ready for ICD-11

The American Medical Association (AMA) has urged the federal government to defer by at least two years its plan to move the compliance date of ICD-10 by one year, to Oct. 1, 2013. "A two-year delay of the compliance deadline for ICD-10 is a necessary first step," AMA officials said in a May 10 letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) acting administrator, Marilyn B. Tavenner. The urging came hot on the heels of the statement of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) in a letter sent to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS)...

OSHA Charges Cleveland Contractors and Zamzo for Safety Violations

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has determined that Cleveland Cement Contractors Inc. had committed six serious safety violations, including noncompliance with design and construction standards, after the worksite-safety watchdog’s investigation of the partial collapse of a second-floor parking garage during concrete-placement operation in December last year. The collapse, fortunately, only caused sprains and strains in several workers. OSHA has proposed fines totaling $38,000.Cleveland Cement Contractors Inc. specializes in parking garages...

Legislation Has Been Introduced To Freeze Tanning Salons

In the wake of findings by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) of the health dangers of tanning and the recent backlash from the child-endangerment case of a New Jersey mother who allegedly took her 5-year-old daughter to a tanning booth, indoor tanning is getting bad press lately.According to the CDC, the incidence rates of melanoma (a deadly form of skin cancer) are rising and are particularly high among young white women. The CDC has warned the public that indoor tanning before age 35 causes the risk for melanoma to spike by an alarming 75 percent, a figure first arrived at by the World...

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