This article nails it! As a manager at a very large HR outsourcing company working with many fourtune 500 companies as clients, I see this with our job offers to talented individuals every day. It is key to make sure you are considering the full package at all times when considering a new opportunity.
Jonathan, this is just a spectacular piece of writing... the research, the historical perspective, the quotes from local artists, the value of such a spot in our Warehouse District... you captured it all. Bravo!
I am a former resident of guardian angel and i have to say i am 42 now i was 16 when i came there and that place got my head screwed on straight. I don't know if anyone that worked there that long ago is still there but i still remember my experience there
Could you substantiate using figures; by what percentage did mortality and other health indicators improve by having Degree nurses in acute care settings.
Eric makes great points in his article. Facebook truly does offer cost-effective marketing capabilities leveraging the social graph. Why market to "everyone" when you can spend less money and market directly to your target demographic? At the end of 2009 there were over 200 million people using Facebook... clearly a HUGE opportunity for targeted marketing efforts.
It sounds like Eric has some great insight on this topic. I would enjoy hearing more from his perspective on other topics related to social networking.
As an Army LPN I can tell you that having different levels of nursing actually makes more sense do to the chronic shortages in the profession. Yes, education is important, but you can utilize your "less educated" nurses in lower acuity settings and still allow patients to have excellent health care. The LPN functions as your low-level workhorse in the medical-surgical setting and can typically manage 6-7 patients without any problems freeing up the 2-year RNs so they can deal with the higher acuity patients. BSNs serve best in the charge nurse/ward master/team leader or intensive care setting where they can take advantage of their higher education to coordinate their less-educated counterparts or deal with the highest acuity patients. Take away your LPNs and 2-year RNs and your BSNs are going to have 30-40 patients each - How well is their higher education going to help them with that situation?
Steve! Congratulations on your business and personal successes! It's an honor to have known you, received some of your barbering services while in college and I'm just so happy to see this great accomplishment for you and your community. Peace + many blessings!
I appreciate Dr. Erika attitude and individual approach. She is a very good specialist.
The average wait time to see Dr. Hunter as provided by patient reviews is 5 minutes. By comparison, the research paper about medical services shows national average for a pre-vist wait time of 21 minutes.
I would like to congratulate both of these highlighted minority owned businesses in Peoria, IL. It is a pleasure to read articles about the positive contributions from young, aspiring African Americans. Our national and local media usually reveal the ills of our communities, the lack of present fathers, as well as under performing/achieving minorities. This article allows us to celebrate both women and men of color that are collectively impacting communities throughout the city of Peoria. As a writer, full time college student and single mother, I am inspired to continue my journey towards excellence just like Gia, Kelly and Stephen. Thank you for publishing this article.
Since Amy Chovan interviewed me for the article, we've put the Financial Calculators App on sale for $5.99 and released the Cartoonizer which is Free (the Deluxe version, to come later, will be $0.99).
Seeing this new technology come together has been very exciting! Thanks to our great team at Appitudez and DLA!
Jim Smith's article "12 Reasons Employees Leave Organizations," is a great roadmap to keeping your employees working for you. However, another question to ask yourself is, "When do I start motivating my employees to stay?" I say, right NOW!
Why? Numerous sources report turnover costs to be between 25% - 150% of the current employees' annual salary. You can compute your own cost by adding the cost for all actions you will take to hire and train a new employee. Multiply that by the number of employees that leave in a given year and you will have your annual cost of turnover. Knowing that number, how much can you afford to spend on employee turnover?
Why now? During the past 20+ years, we trained our employees that job hopping is the way to get ahead. With the downturn in our economy, employees are holding onto their jobs waiting to hop to better ones. With the glimmers we are seeing that our economy may be starting its turn, how long do you have to convince your employees that your business is the place they want to work?
I am looking for someone to fund the startup of a business that will be very profitable. It is a small business and what I am looking for is around $25k. I plan to use this money to get all the essential things I will need for the business, inventory, computers, software, utilities and the rental of a place for the business. If there are any groups that anyone knows of that may be interested my number is 217-416-9253. Leave a message for Dan
As someone who has floated around the edges of the arts throughout my life, I have seen a tendency for Arts Organizations to consider each other compeditors. This has also been true of individual artists.
Sure, we are all in it, not just for the love of art, but for the money and prestege received for our work. The point is that if we continue that way, all the folks and organizations who make decisions affecting art are hearing "One lonely voice." However, if we leave our egos out of it and approach our problems collectively, we become "ONE LARGE RESOUNDING VOICE" that cannot be ignored.
We, in Peoria are working on "Art Works" and hope that Arts Communities Nationally, and even Worldwide will get together as "ONE VOICE" and present the facts that ART improves the quality of life and produces sizeable income growth in cities where the Arts community is allowed to help in planning, tourism, and other design processes.
Very interesting subject. I plead guilty to the mind-set as you described it in the beginning of the article. According to Google search results, it looks like I have plenty of company.
This serves to remind me that to be close-minded to methods and discoveries of other sectors and/or people is to short-change ourselves or our firms of potentially helpful strategies.
As I once heard, and clearly need to remind myself... "I can shave a little cream off the top of anyone I meet." Thanks for the article.
It's great to see this written about Eurogames! Carcassonne is a great game to convert non-gamers into regular board game players, I'm glad to see it had such as positive impact! There is a whole network around these games, they are massivly popular but people don't realize.
Dr. Hunter has been a very competent and caring pediatrician for our two children. She is also a great community contributor. This is very well deserved.
Great article Brian. You have stated well the need for a balanced education for our students and a close relationship with area businesses. Glad you chose education for your career. Welcome to the field.
you know the biggest complaint from nurses and other educated persons who hold higher degrees (masters and above) is that the two year degrees are cheap and are not educated as well as a baccalaureate in nursing, now i admit there are some shortfalls but to me this whole uproar for every nurse to be a baccalaureate nurse upon graduation is shortsighted and foolish, 58.4% of nurses in 2007 were associate degrees instead of requiring every nurse to be a baccalaureate upon graduation restrict where they can work and require them to go back to school instead of causing more problems in healthcare or feed the greedy colleges why do you think there is such a push for people to have baccalaureate degrees? money anybody?
Very proud of Jehan and her tireless efforts to establish and maintain an attentive ear to the voices of her constituents, since she took office, in January.
It's a very nice article and makes me want to attend. I would be there at 11 a.m. in the ballroom at the Hotel Pere Marquette but for the life of me I have no idea which day of which month I should be there.
Thanks for the wonderful article about the Symphony's search for a new music director. As a member of the Search Committee, I've been inspired and delighted by each of these talented individuals. They are all unique and would bring a refreshing perspective to our orchestra. Although it's going to be a difficult choice, we will learn from each guest conductor and have an exciting season.
I think you did a good job here. It would have been better to get what you would, like you said from Gorg actually at his work. You can tell you really like this genre.
The story was pretty good. The bye Gorg we did it; was good. Very long background. The quote Plays that make a difference was good. I think you did well.
Mr. Okey is my English teacher at ICC (110). He has interesting classes and encourages me to aspire to be a better writer. Now that I've seen a piece of his work; I have something specific to aspire to.
Jim Dusten
Thank you Jennifer for a wonderful little terriror mix pictured in the October issue, he is a marvelous dog and is almost trained because of your efforts. You do wonderful work.
Pam Smith
Mom of Prince Louis
I lived in Peoria 28 Years and knew there was a lot of German centered things I didn't realize there were so many. I was however very surprised that you didn't include the most well known German restaurant in Peoria. Jumers castle lodge . It is probably the most authentic German restaurant in the area.
Please see Fischer Motors at: www.fischer1.com
Ron
So, what bike was it that you designed?
This article nails it! As a manager at a very large HR outsourcing company working with many fourtune 500 companies as clients, I see this with our job offers to talented individuals every day. It is key to make sure you are considering the full package at all times when considering a new opportunity.
Tucker -
Nice article. Here's hoping we can create the right environment to lure some of these businesses back in addition to some new ones.
Jonathan, this is just a spectacular piece of writing... the research, the historical perspective, the quotes from local artists, the value of such a spot in our Warehouse District... you captured it all. Bravo!
I agree with Mr. Gordon-student interest must drive the rigor of our classrooms.
I am a former resident of guardian angel and i have to say i am 42 now i was 16 when i came there and that place got my head screwed on straight. I don't know if anyone that worked there that long ago is still there but i still remember my experience there
Thank you for calculators, i think i'll buy one very soon!
Could you substantiate using figures; by what percentage did mortality and other health indicators improve by having Degree nurses in acute care settings.
thanks
Eric makes great points in his article. Facebook truly does offer cost-effective marketing capabilities leveraging the social graph. Why market to "everyone" when you can spend less money and market directly to your target demographic? At the end of 2009 there were over 200 million people using Facebook... clearly a HUGE opportunity for targeted marketing efforts.
It sounds like Eric has some great insight on this topic. I would enjoy hearing more from his perspective on other topics related to social networking.
As an Army LPN I can tell you that having different levels of nursing actually makes more sense do to the chronic shortages in the profession. Yes, education is important, but you can utilize your "less educated" nurses in lower acuity settings and still allow patients to have excellent health care. The LPN functions as your low-level workhorse in the medical-surgical setting and can typically manage 6-7 patients without any problems freeing up the 2-year RNs so they can deal with the higher acuity patients. BSNs serve best in the charge nurse/ward master/team leader or intensive care setting where they can take advantage of their higher education to coordinate their less-educated counterparts or deal with the highest acuity patients. Take away your LPNs and 2-year RNs and your BSNs are going to have 30-40 patients each - How well is their higher education going to help them with that situation?
I think this is a great place to read about organizations and diverse cultures. I didn't realize there was a site for all this great information.
Love it,
Sincerely, Hilda Perez
I liked this article.
Steve! Congratulations on your business and personal successes! It's an honor to have known you, received some of your barbering services while in college and I'm just so happy to see this great accomplishment for you and your community. Peace + many blessings!
I appreciate Dr. Erika attitude and individual approach. She is a very good specialist.
The average wait time to see Dr. Hunter as provided by patient reviews is 5 minutes. By comparison, the research paper about medical services shows national average for a pre-vist wait time of 21 minutes.
Well doing!!!
I would like to congratulate both of these highlighted minority owned businesses in Peoria, IL. It is a pleasure to read articles about the positive contributions from young, aspiring African Americans. Our national and local media usually reveal the ills of our communities, the lack of present fathers, as well as under performing/achieving minorities. This article allows us to celebrate both women and men of color that are collectively impacting communities throughout the city of Peoria. As a writer, full time college student and single mother, I am inspired to continue my journey towards excellence just like Gia, Kelly and Stephen. Thank you for publishing this article.
Since Amy Chovan interviewed me for the article, we've put the Financial Calculators App on sale for $5.99 and released the Cartoonizer which is Free (the Deluxe version, to come later, will be $0.99).
Seeing this new technology come together has been very exciting! Thanks to our great team at Appitudez and DLA!
– Michelle Lefebvre
Jim Smith's article "12 Reasons Employees Leave Organizations," is a great roadmap to keeping your employees working for you. However, another question to ask yourself is, "When do I start motivating my employees to stay?" I say, right NOW!
Why? Numerous sources report turnover costs to be between 25% - 150% of the current employees' annual salary. You can compute your own cost by adding the cost for all actions you will take to hire and train a new employee. Multiply that by the number of employees that leave in a given year and you will have your annual cost of turnover. Knowing that number, how much can you afford to spend on employee turnover?
Why now? During the past 20+ years, we trained our employees that job hopping is the way to get ahead. With the downturn in our economy, employees are holding onto their jobs waiting to hop to better ones. With the glimmers we are seeing that our economy may be starting its turn, how long do you have to convince your employees that your business is the place they want to work?
I am looking for someone to fund the startup of a business that will be very profitable. It is a small business and what I am looking for is around $25k. I plan to use this money to get all the essential things I will need for the business, inventory, computers, software, utilities and the rental of a place for the business. If there are any groups that anyone knows of that may be interested my number is 217-416-9253. Leave a message for Dan
As someone who has floated around the edges of the arts throughout my life, I have seen a tendency for Arts Organizations to consider each other compeditors. This has also been true of individual artists.
Sure, we are all in it, not just for the love of art, but for the money and prestege received for our work. The point is that if we continue that way, all the folks and organizations who make decisions affecting art are hearing "One lonely voice." However, if we leave our egos out of it and approach our problems collectively, we become "ONE LARGE RESOUNDING VOICE" that cannot be ignored.
We, in Peoria are working on "Art Works" and hope that Arts Communities Nationally, and even Worldwide will get together as "ONE VOICE" and present the facts that ART improves the quality of life and produces sizeable income growth in cities where the Arts community is allowed to help in planning, tourism, and other design processes.
Bruce Shiverdecker
M.H. Woodturning, Etc.
Bohemian Arts Society
Arts Partners
Erik,
Very interesting subject. I plead guilty to the mind-set as you described it in the beginning of the article. According to Google search results, it looks like I have plenty of company.
This serves to remind me that to be close-minded to methods and discoveries of other sectors and/or people is to short-change ourselves or our firms of potentially helpful strategies.
As I once heard, and clearly need to remind myself... "I can shave a little cream off the top of anyone I meet." Thanks for the article.
It's great to see this written about Eurogames! Carcassonne is a great game to convert non-gamers into regular board game players, I'm glad to see it had such as positive impact! There is a whole network around these games, they are massivly popular but people don't realize.
Great work Karen you are amazing and I am glad that I know you and keep up the GREAT work!!!!
Dr. Hunter has been a very competent and caring pediatrician for our two children. She is also a great community contributor. This is very well deserved.
Great article Brian. You have stated well the need for a balanced education for our students and a close relationship with area businesses. Glad you chose education for your career. Welcome to the field.
Everyone is very proud of you! Great work!!
you know the biggest complaint from nurses and other educated persons who hold higher degrees (masters and above) is that the two year degrees are cheap and are not educated as well as a baccalaureate in nursing, now i admit there are some shortfalls but to me this whole uproar for every nurse to be a baccalaureate nurse upon graduation is shortsighted and foolish, 58.4% of nurses in 2007 were associate degrees instead of requiring every nurse to be a baccalaureate upon graduation restrict where they can work and require them to go back to school instead of causing more problems in healthcare or feed the greedy colleges why do you think there is such a push for people to have baccalaureate degrees? money anybody?
Congratulations Karen!!!!
AWESOME JOB! Your hard work and dedication are amazing! I am very proud of you and proud to KNOW you!
Your Dad would have been beside himself with pride...as are we all. Congrats on a job well done, and God bless all your endeavors.
Completely deserved recognition!
Congrats!
Very proud of Jehan and her tireless efforts to establish and maintain an attentive ear to the voices of her constituents, since she took office, in January.
Way to go, Chris!!!
Jada Phillabaum is one of the most amazing people ever.
Hi Carol,
This article is from the 2007 event. The 2009 event is entitled "Hats Off to 75 Years of Fashion." It will be held on Saturday, November 7th.
Thanks!