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Avoid Burnout as a Dental Assistant
Avoid Burnout as a Dental Assistant
Having a career as a Dental Assistant can be very rewarding. It can also be stressful and overwhelming at times. Working with people can get the best of us from time to time. Being a Dental Assistant requires ongoing dedication and energy. If you find yourself becoming physically and emotionally drained due to your work responsibilities as a Dental Assistant, you may be on your way to experiencing a burnout.
Often, stress and burnout are confused. Stress is also the result of the work environment. However, it is the result of periodic issues and complications in the work place. It might be having a bad day now and then. Burnout is a constant, ongoing feeling of not being adequate in your job on a daily basis. You may not longer take pride or interest in your position as a Dental Assistant.
Burnout results in feelings of hopelessness and resentment. If left untreated, it can escalate to depression. Dental Assistants who experience burnout often feel unappreciated, overworked, feel they have too much to accomplish in limited time, and begin to resent their level of responsibility. Placing unrealistic expectations on yourself is also a factor in burnout.
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Burnout generally runs in stages. You go from feeling excited about your job as a Dental Assistant to forcing yourself to go to work each morning. Most people aren't even sure what is wrong at this point. However, you will begin to experience exhaustion that leads to irritability. Burnout often has symptoms including headaches, changes in appetite, and high blood pressure. During phases of burnout, your relationships both outside of work and at work are going to suffer.
If you feel you may be suffering from burnout, talk with your supervisor. You can find support in your co-workers. You might consider attending a few counseling sessions to help you develop an action plan.
To avoid and eliminate burnout in the Dental Assistant field, you must meet your physical and emotional needs. Too often we spread ourselves too thin. We focus on the needs of out patients, our employer, and our family. While this is great, it is important to remember your own needs. Eventually not taking care of them will result in your inability to care for the needs of anyone else.
Meet your physical needs by having regular checkups, getting enough sleep, and eating right. Exercise is a very important part of feeling good physically. To keep yourself feeling good mentally, use your coping skills. Know what triggers your negative feelings and keep them in check. Keep realistic goals and demands on your body and your time. Don't beat yourself up if you didn't accomplish everything you set out to do that day. Instead, focus on what you did accomplish. Learn to manage your time. It is OK to say know if you already feel over extended.
Focusing on your social needs is also important. Nurture your relationships with your spouse, children, and close friends. Stay involved in Church and community organizations that are of interest to you. If you are unhappy with your job as a Dental Assistant, talk to your employer about help to remedy the situation. Improving your communication skills with others will also improve your over all health.
Dental Assistants generally enjoy their career choice and put forth their best effort everyday. However, burnout is very common in the dental field. Knowing what causes burnout, they signs and symptoms, and effective ways to manage it will make you be able to focus on your job again. Improving your physical, mental, and social health will soon having you going to work with enthusiasm and a thirst for knowledge in the dental field soon. If your feelings don't change, you will want to discuss the situation further. It may be depression that needs to be treated instead of burnout. Realistically, some Dental Assistants realize at this time they need a career change.


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How do you trigger the door to open with the wires only?
How do you trigger the door to close with the wires only?
Is there any risks to shorting the two wires together?

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By Judy Reed
When you're a kid, the long, hot days of summer seem to go on forever. It's not long before kids exhaust their ideas of what to do and moms hear the familiar refrain, "There's nothing to do! I'm bored!" Well, don't you believe it. With a little searching, you'll find hundreds of activities taking place in West Michigan where families can have fun and spend some quality time together. In this week's special pullout section of "Beat the Boredom," you'll find just a fraction of the many things going on this summer—festivals, summer enrichment programs, camps, plays, and more! Download link below to see what's on tap for you this summer!


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I've about had all I'm going to take from the bouncers of compassion who tell me and others all day, every day, that if we don't bomb Syria then I, we are "isolationists." Exhibit A:
Most Republicans don't want to become, again, the party of isolationists. Not consciously at any rate. Nearly all of them profess fidelity to a strong military, to Israel's security, to stopping Iran's march to a bomb. And opposition to military intervention in Syria—particularly if it's of the pinprick sort being contemplated by the administration—isn't necessarily proof of isolationist sympathies. Henry Kissinger is opposed to intervening in Syria. Henry Kissinger is not, last I checked, an isolationist.
Yet the Syria debate is also exposing the isolationist worm eating its way through the GOP apple.
Insert quotes that do nothing to substantiate the author's seeded premise of isolationism. People will only skim it, anyway:
"The war in Syria has no clear national security connection to the United States and victory by either side will not necessarily bring into power people friendly to the United States." Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.).
"I believe the situation in Syria is not an imminent threat to American national security and, therefore, I do not support military intervention. Before taking action, the president should first come present his plan to Congress outlining the approach, cost, objectives and timeline, and get authorization from Congress for his proposal." Sen. Mike Lee (R., Utah).
"When the United States is not under attack, the American people, through our elected representatives, must decide whether we go to war." Rep. Justin Amash (R., Mich.)
Oh my gawd. It's like they're calling for the complete defunding and disband of the entire military. The American people must decide?
Insert Reagan example because Reagan was a sinless conservative creature (immigration) and you are not allowed to disagree and call yourself a conservative, ever.
Such faux-constitutional assertions—based on the notion that only direct attacks to the homeland constitute an actionable threat to national security—would have astonished Ronald Reagan, who invaded Grenada in 1983 without consulting a single member of Congress.
And just for good measure, here's a George H.W. Bush example to shut you up. Are you going to argue with one-termer H. W. Bush? Because that means you like Obama.
It would have amazed George H.W. Bush, who gave Congress five hours notice before invading Panama.
The presupposition is that the right is just like the left and hive mind in thinking. While the left may have been wholly anti-war with a Republican in office and wholly pro-war with a Democrat at the Resolute Desk, it does not mean that Republicans, especially conservatives, lockstep the same. When will conservatives stop comparing other conservatives to the left?
Insert WWII story because the current situation is completely comparable.
Insert progressive language and say that war is "investing" in security abroad. What a deliciously devilish political trick!
Republicans should know, too, that investing in global order deters more dangerous would-be aggressors and creates a world congenial to American trade, security and values.
Investing in shovel-ready jobs, investing in education, investing in green energy, investing in war. I suppose that's considered a "shovel ready job" too? You see, the reason that we have these troubles abroad is because we aren't investing enough abroad. Instead if sending a billion dollars in aid to Egypt, we should send two billion dollars. Instead of sending a billion dollars of aid to Syria, we should send five billion dollars. It's obviously because we're not spending enough billions to band-aid the symptom that these situations occur.
Insert dramatic ending about how listening to any Republican who isn't balls-to-the-wall buckwild about bombing Syria is "perilous." Cue low piano keys:
The junior senator from Kentucky may not know it yet, but, intellectually speaking, he's already yesterday's man. Republicans follow him at their peril.
How dare we not take the bait and blame and toddler-stomp into a civil war where Team Al Qaeda + Rebels face off for control against Team Assad + Hezbollah. How dare we, on the anniversary of 9/11, move to arm and act on behalf of the terrorist entity which orchestrated the worst terror attack ever on U.S. soil. Deja vu, anyone?
Peril, indeed.
P.S. Has anyone actually laid out what U.S. interests are in Syria? Progressive who claim reports of children's deaths abroad are awfully silent on the ones in utero here at home or lives of those sent into harm's way if Kerry gets his wish.


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Liberty Counsel
Steve Crampton Likens Banning 'Ex-Gay' Therapy To Eugenics
Another religious right attempt to convince people to fear real science
Liberty Counsel Defends Christian School That Demanded Eight Year-Old Conform To Biblical Gender Standards
The school claims that 8 year-old Sunnie Kahle's presence at the school is "distracting."
SPLC Adds Seven New Organizations To Anti-Gay Hate Group List
Welcome to the list, World Congress of Families, Liberty Counsel, Ruth Institute and C-Fam
California's 'Ex-Gay' Therapy Ban Remains On Hold Pending Supreme Court Appeal
The Liberty Counsel has appealed to the Supreme Court
Liberty Counsel Files Appeal To Overturn New Jersey's 'Ex-Gay' Therapy Ban
Liberty Counsel is fighting to restore their right to hurt New Jersey's LGBT kids
Mat Staver Very Worried Marriage Equality Will Make Everyone Go Gay
He also thinks the teevee is making bestiality seem funny and acceptable
Liberty Counsel Made A Movie And We're Sure It's Great
Stop laughing, y'all, they're being serious
Mat Staver Is Still Very Upset About The DOMA Decision
"HOW DARE THEY?!", screamed Mat Staver
Liberty Counsel Appealing After Ninth Circuit Upheld California Ban On "Ex-Gay" Torture For Minors
Liberty Counsel is committed to losing all the way up to the Supreme Court
Liberty Counsel Will Sue Over New Jersey 'Ex-Gay' Ban
At all costs, Liberty Counsel must protect their own supremacist ideology


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Implementing a Web-based Resource to Increase Contraceptive Access at a University Health Clinic
Implementing a Web-based Resource to Increase Contraceptive Access at a University Health Clinic: The Bedsider Project
Mary Landry, MD
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
University–based student health centers take care of young, media-savvy patients in high demand of contraceptive services. In theory, targeted web-based information is a great way to communicate important facts about contraception to university students. In this study, Dr. Landry at the University of Wisconsin evaluated the effect of incorporating Bedsider into the clinical practice of a university–based health center.
The aim of this study was to improve access to contraception by using Bedsider to help students learn about birth control options and help with their decision making prior to seeing a contraceptive counselor. The researchers felt that Bedsider could also be used to decrease the amount of time clinicians spent counseling patients about general contraceptive information and increase time spent addressing individual questions.
Bedsider was incorporated into the University of Wisconsin's University Health Service (UHS) clinical practice in several ways. First, the Bedsider link was added to the UHS website for general viewing. Second, the Bedsider link was e-mailed to all patients who had a scheduled UHS appointment related to contraception services. Third, when patients called to schedule IUD insertions, they were given the option of having an "electronic" consultation, which consisted of a link to the Bedsider website and supplementary materials, or the standard in-person consult. Fourth, any student presenting for a contraceptive appointment who had not previously reviewed the Bedsider website was given the opportunity to explore it on android tablet in the exam room while waiting for the clinician. Finally, after all contraceptive visits, students were sent the link to Bedsider for further information and review.
The number of students seen for contraceptive services pre- and post- Bedsider implementation increased by over fifty percent, 557 visits in the fall of 2011 compared to 846 in the fall of 2012. The number of patients seen specifically for IUD consultations increased by 250% (from 46 to 116) after Bedsider implementation. The number of IUDs actually placed at the UHS doubled from 23 in the fall of 2011 to 46 in 2012, and the number of implant insertions went from 1 to 6 in these periods. In a post-appointment patient satisfaction survey, the vast majority of students indicated that they learned about Bedsider from the UHS, and that they intended to use Bedsider for assistance in the future. There was no increase in missed IUD insertion appointments, rescheduled insertions due to insurance or pregnancy concerns, and no increase in post procedure infections.
The results of this project suggest that Bedsider can be used to increase access to contraceptive services in a university setting. This is a low-cost, low-resource, highly effective means of communicating accurate information about contraception to a student population including preparing them for LARC insertion appointments.


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CANNES, France — A comedy black enough to pass for India ink and, unlike so many grotesque comedies of modern manners, a film with just enough moral seriousness to make it stick, director David Cronenberg's "Maps to the Stars" defies such long odds it should be playing roulette in Monte Carlo instead of premiering at the 67th Cannes Film Festival.
The festival, operating on an annual budget that's the equivalent of $27 million, concludes with the awards ceremony Saturday. So far the festival has reminded visitors to this grand, trendsetting international bazaar of cinema that its programmers remain loyal to their established favorites.
Sometimes that loyalty is tested beyond rational limits. One of the main competition titles, writer-director Atom Egoyan's pallid child-abduction thriller "The Captive," had no business being here, in or out of competition.
Like his fellow Canadian Egoyan, Cronenberg has been a frequent presence over the years at Cannes. Happily — if that's the right word for a poisonous tale dealing in incest, among other themes — the director's latest not only deserved a competition berth, it's one of Cronenberg's most interesting pictures in years.
We're in dangerously familiar territory in terms of subject. A first viewing of "Maps to the Stars" evokes memories, or at least moments, from Robert Altman's "The Player" to David Lynch's "Mulholland Drive," with a few Bret Easton Ellis binges for good measure. Julianne Moore triumphs as a monstrously egocentric actress dying to play her own dead mother (also an actress) in an upcoming movie. She's plagued by visions of her late mother.
The actress is in the market for a new personal assistant. She's the first person we see in "Maps to the Stars": A star-struck 18-year-old, played by Mia Wasikowska, arrives in LA all the way from Jupiter ("Florida," she adds, helpfully). Her motives are many; she has family she's hoping to connect with, and a Twitter friendship with Carrie Fisher (playing herself) that leads her with blithe expediency to work for Moore's character.
Robert Pattinson, who starred in Cronenberg's mostly inert "Cosmopolis," portrays a limo driver/sometime actor/budding screenwriter who befriends the kid from Jupiter. In shrewdly controlled turns, John Cusack and Olivia Williams fare beautifully as the parents of a 13-year-old star (newcomer Evan Bird) who has already slogged through rehab. How these slitherers interrelate in "Maps to the Stars" isn't without its schematic aspects, but working with a script by Bruce Wagner, Cronenberg achieves a sly mastery of tone.
Also premiering Sunday, Tommy Lee Jones' "The Homesman" proved a worthy if somewhat disappointing return to Cannes for the director and star, whose excellent "Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada" won two awards here nearly a decade ago. Set in mid-19th century Nebraska territory, the film co-stars Hilary Swank as a valiant, virtuous settler escorting three clinically insane women across the Missouri River to a better life. Jones is her combative comrade and eventual friend on the journey. I wish the women being escorted were dramatized, instead of merely indicated in a few reaction shots, but this is a two-person show, with cameos from a fine variety of supporting players including Meryl Streep, Tim Blake Nelson and, as the most untrustworthy real estate developer in the plains, James Spader.
We all have our favorites so far. "Winter Sleep" is mine. This comes from Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, like Egoyan and Cronenberg a Cannes festival regular.
Ceylan has often been awarded here, most recently in 2011 with the Grand Prix (second prize in Cannes parlance, behind the Palme d'Or) for his intimate widescreen epic "Once Upon a Time in Anatolia." Now, with "Winter Sleep," he has created what may be the best Chekhov adaptation on film, as well as a truly Palme-worthy work.
Ceylan told me in an interview over the weekend in the Turkish Pavilion (fantastic coffee, by the way) just south of the Palais du Festivals that "Winter Sleep" derives loosely from several Chekhov stories, notably "The Wife" (1888). In Ceylan's script, written with his wife, screenwriter Ebru Ceylan, a well-to-do and conceited retired actor runs a small hotel with his much younger wife in the remote Anatolia region. In summer there are tourists to entertain; "Winter Sleep" captures the uneasy feeling of an off-season establishment brilliantly.
The actor's recently divorced sister lives with the couple, and the actor owns rental property nearby. Tenants far behind on their rent are living on the edge of disaster; a little boy throws a rock at the landlord's car windshield, and this inciting incident taps a series of recriminations into motion.
Motion is relative in "Winter Sleep," which runs 3 hours, 16 minutes and struck many here at Cannes as both inspired and grueling. I vote "inspired" without the "grueling." It's a wonder, both for its eye for the Anatolian landscape and the glow of its interior sequences. This is a portrait of a misjudgment of a marriage teetering on the edge of a cliff.
"There's no specific reason there are problems with these two," Ceylan told me. "It's the same in Chekhov. You don't need one good reason for them to have problems. In Chekhov, the story is about nothing, really, and at first I didn't have the confidence to do it. There's no storyline, just an atmosphere, a general feeling of life."
More than any film I've seen this year "Winter Sleep" captures the mystery of living, on its own clock, careening from excoriating psychological drama to a comical drunk scene. The key actors are Haluk Bilginer, Melisa Sozen and Demet Akbag, and they are marvelous. Ceylan has learned with "Winter Sleep" how to balance, precisely, his formidable photographer's eye with an ear for language, and an ever-more-skillful hand with performers.
Cannes isn't all high-minded artistic ambition. On Sunday Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dolph Ludgren, Mel Gibson and Harrison Ford, along with other veteran action heroes well above voting age, rode a tank up the Croisette as part of a promotional stunt for the forthcoming "Expendables 3." On Saturday night, with two massively profitable "Hunger Games" movies behind it, Lionsgate hosted what appeared to be a mid-six-figure party in a villa about 30 minutes east of Cannes in Cap d'Antibes. The villa was decked out with all sorts of logos and flourishes taken from the upcoming "Mockingjay — Part 1."
Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Moore were there, briefly. The tall, attractive folk bearing trays of champagne were dressed like high-fashion denizens of Panem. One of the several hundred guests in attendance remarked that it looked like "Eyes Wide Shut" was about to break out, which surely would've changed the rating from PG-13 to R.
The purpose of the party? Simply to remind people that the third "Hunger Games" movie will be arriving in a few months. The purpose of the Cannes Film Festival? To set the agenda for the world's specialty, foreign and art-house screens in the coming year. And to remind people there's more to life, and the movies, than a globe-gobbling franchise.
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