In this issue

	Fill Your Summer Vacation Savings Jar
	Studying Nurses, Furthering Women's Health
	Fax Your Timecard for Prompt Pay!
	Coming to a Convention Near You!

On the web

	Employee Sign In
	Local Branch Offices
	Favorite Benefits

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Fill Your Summer Vacation Savings Jar

Our referral bonuses are easy to earn!

Already stashing away cash for that fabulous summer vacation? Let Favorite Nurses help fill your savings jar! Refer your friends and acquaintances and earn the extra money you may need to make your excursion a memorable one!

• Refer an RN, earn $500
• Refer an LPN/Therapist, earn $250
• Refer a CNA/HHA, earn $100

People are our most important resource! If you know top quality medical and allied health professionals send them our way and earn your bonuses today!

Referring is easy! Click here to complete the referral form online. You can also print a form and fax it to 1-866-291-1504.

Be sure to read the complete program rules. If you have any questions, contact your local branch office.

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Studying Nurses, Furthering Women's Health

Nurses Health Studies have helped researchers understand health issues faced by women.

The year was 1976. Women had been using oral contraceptives for about 10 years. Researchers at Harvard Medical School, recognizing there were unknown effects to long-term use of the pill, planned an investigation of suspected links between oral contraception and certain chronic diseases. First, however, they needed tens of thousands of women who would commit to being part of a long-term study. What stable population of subjects would faithfully answer very personal questions about their health over time?

The answer: nurses. As medical professionals, nurses could offer accurate responses to detailed health-related questions. With an appreciation for the value of medical research, nurses could be relied upon to commit themselves to a lifelong study that would further the understanding of women’s health issues. Thus began the Nurses’ Health Study, which along the way has broadened its focus, extending beyond birth control to examine various issues related to women’s health. Every other year since 1976, nurses have completed questionnaires on such diverse topics as diet and exercise, and medication usage.

Nurses who participate in the study do so voluntarily, and their privacy is treated with the utmost respect. Appropriate subjects, solicited through State Boards of Nursing, are identified only by numbers. The response of nurses over the past 25 years has been tremendous. In addition, the Nurses’ Health Study also has worked with other research projects to combine resources on specific areas of interest to women’s health. `

In 1989, the Harvard researchers began a second version of the Nurses’ Health Study, which now runs simultaneously with the first study. Nurses’ Health Study II follows a new generation of nurses, examining reproductive issues that could no longer be addressed by the original study’s older population. Researchers in the second study also are following the health of the nurses’ children, looking into issues such as how adolescent health is impacted by birth weight, and diet and exercise.

In 2001, Harvard Medical School published a book outlining the important findings and recommendations gathered over the course of the studies. Titled "Healthy Women, Healthy Lives", the book offers information on diet and exercise, contraception and childbearing, menopause, and the effects of personal behavior on the prevention of chronic diseases. As one of the largest and longest-running studies of women’s health in the world, the Nurses’ Health Study has had a phenomenal impact on women’s health research.

To learn more aabout these studies or to become a participant, visit www.channing.harvard.edu/nhs/.

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Fax Your Timecard for Prompt Pay!

By faxing your timecard to 1-866-FAV-PAYS, you can speed up the payroll process.

Weekly, or after each shift, you can fax your completed "Employee Assignment Record" (timecard) to 1-866-FAV-PAYS (1-866-328-7298). After faxing your timecard, you can verify that it was received by calling 1-877-215-7999 with the unique identifying number located at the bottom of your timecard.

The following tips will help ensure timely pay.

• Use a new timecard after each fax. You may use the same timecard for up to four shifts, but once you fax it to Favorite Staffing, you must use a new one.
• Download new timecards from our website. Go to www.favoritestaffing.com and log in. Go the payroll area and click on Printable Timecard.
• When filling out your timecard, print clearly.
• Fill in circles (bubbles) completely.
• Remember, the "date worked" is always the beginning of the shift.
• Bubble in the day of the week worked - the day and the date must match.
• Always bubble in the "area" worked: General Staff or Specialty.
• Always bubble in the "shift" worked: Day, Evening or Night.
• It is also very important that your social security number is in the space provided. Avoid touching the numbers to the sides of the boxes.
• Self-booked shifts will result in the inability to process your record timely. You must call Favorite Staffing before working a self-booked shift.

Complete instructions are on the back of each form. If you have any questions, contact your local branch office.

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Coming to a Convention Near You!

Favorite Nurses will be exhibitors at several conferences in the next few months.

Be sure to stop in and see us at one of the upcoming conferences! We will have goodies to give away and a great prize to raffle off. We would love to meet you!

• The American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) annual meeting in Chicago: April 15-19, 2005.
• The National Teaching Institute and Critical Care Exposition in New Orleans: May 7-12, 2005.
• Vice Presidents Kathy Perry and Brenda Andrascik and Human Resources Director David Lite will be speaking at the Forum on Health Care Leadership in Las Vegas: August 12-15. 2005.

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