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...other day, a nurse at Florida State University in Tallahassee responded to an alarm in a hospital room where a patient named Stan D. Ardman lay gravely ill. Ardman's blood pressure had dropped precipitously, and when the nurse came in, Ardman wheezed and said, "I'm very nauseous and dizzy ... Having trouble breathing...
...Stan D. Ardman isn't a real person but a robot simulator ("standard man") used to train medical personnel. Thomas, who is just out of nursing school, was participating in a Florida State study designed to compare the performance of novice nurses like him against that of more experienced ones. The results were surprising. After Thomas left, I watched a nurse with more than 25 years' experience go through the same simulation. At first, when the monitor indicated a drop in blood pressure, Monica (also a pseudonym) coolheadedly began to identify possible treatments. Within seconds she noticed Ardman's dopamine...
...Gregory ManBearPig-kiw: Kyle, Stan, Cartman, and Kenny do battle with this beast in their tiny mountain town...
...sell in the era of triple-digit oil. Suozzi hopes the program--which runs through Earth Day, April 15--will enlist about 5,000 households and shrink Levittown's carbon footprint 20%. But the real benefit may be even greater. "There is nothing more Middle America than Levittown," says Stan Bratskeir, a public relations executive who co-organized the program with Suozzi. "If we can demonstrate this here, we can do it anywhere...
...crisis, an embarrassing stretch for Wall Street firms in which billions of dollars in writedowns were announced and thousands of employees were laid off.But students say that the media blitz did not alter their opinions of the major banks during their job hunt.“[Merrill Lynch CEO] Stan O’Neal’s exit doesn’t factor into my decision because it won’t change anything in my investment banking group and even less about my potential analyst experience,” says Jane Fang ’08, who will...