Thursday, April 25, 2013

Google Day 2

Where do you learn to be a nurse?
How many institutions are they that teach you how to become one?
What benefits does this career include?



  • there are a wide variety of nursing schools around the world which you can assist to learn how to become a nurse. like: Abilene Christian University, Baylor University, etc.
  • before you become a full-fledged nurse you have to pass the NCLEX which stand for National Council Licensure Examination which is a examination for the licensing of nurses in the U.S. 
  • there are two types of these exams the NCLEX-RN and the NCLEX-PN.
  • many universities have give you the option of taking this career well they have an integrated nursing school or you can just go directly to a nursing school instead of going to the university
  • the nursing career includes many benefits very reasonable salary, health insurance, dental.vision insurance, pension plans, tax saving plans, life insurance, adoption assistance/child care

my goal for the next class is learn the topics of the exams to be a nurse.




Friday, April 19, 2013

Google Day 1

Goals:

  • Learn how many years do I have to study to become a nurse?
  • Do they get paid good wages or sustainable ones?
  • How long can I work in this career before retirement?

What I learned:

  • nursing is one of the easiest careers to get into.
  • it may take years to finish nurse school but the good thing is that nurses that nurses that have low budgets and little time to learn new skill can get accreditation as nurses in a few months.
  • nurses can get paid n a range from 77,000 to 100,000
  • the entrance to this kind of career is regulated by the government itself.
  • nurses are trained in a variety of medical areas so they can practice or help professionals in any way they need it
  • setting nurses can work are many like hospitals or living with people in their home to take care of them, in schools, they can even work in pharmaceutical companies
  • now a days it is said to be a shortage of nurses well they few nurses there are, are overloaded with all the patients they have to take care of
  • nurses are always frequently multitasking performing the variety of knowledge they learned in all the distinct patients.
  • research from 2004 revealed that the average age of nurses is 46.8 years of age 
  • there are various educational or licensure requirements like a Diploma in Nursing, an Associate Degree in Nursing , Bachelor of Science in Nursing
  • there are also nursing learning opportunities for graduates advanced education in nursing is done at masters and doctoral levels.

What I want to learn next class:
can nurses become doctors?
                                                                                                                                                                        

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Phishing

What I Know: That they send you emails that say for example that you have pending notifications so you click on the link but it is a fake Facebook sight so when you sign in you are basically giving them your username and password.

Why do they create these fake websites?
What do these websites do with your information(username and password)?
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/phishing.html
http://www.microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/phishing-symptoms.aspx
http://www.phishtank.com/what_is_phishing.php

  • It is the act of attempting to acquire information like usernames, passwords, credit cards info, etc.
  • They do this by disguising themselves as a known website in an electronic communication, like the website of a bank or Facebook, etc.
  • There are different types of fishing techniques: phishing, spear phishing, clone phishing and whaling. 
  • phishing attempts at specific individuals or companies is spear phishing, attackers gather personal information of their targets to increase their chance of success. 
  • several recent fishing attempts have been to executive of companies or important wealthy people this is known as whaling. 
  • phishers have used images instead of text making it harder for anti-phishing filters to detect the text in common phishing emails
  • phone phishing also exists you get an email to number a phone like from your bank that there are problems with your account and once you dial it tells you to give them your account number and pin or password. This vishing or voice phishing.  
I always get spam email from Facebook saying I have pending notifications, now I will be more careful and don't open  the link in these emails. Just access the page from where I ussually access it, to avoid giving phishers my personal info.

Why do they do this and how do they get their targets?