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Friday, April 22, 2011
DANCE ICON
Death is a part of every persons life, though we know we are bound to this state, we often end up crying or grieving for the lost souls of those who are close to our hearts. Earlier this afternoon, I was busy preparing our house for a homecoming of a relative. So busy I only like checked facebook 4-5 times today from 1:00PM to 9:00PM. Like on my 3rd or 4th check, I was able to have a very serious update from my colleague Vincent Hermano saying our dance trainer Mr. Alfredo Victor Uy has already joined our creator. Of something, I am surprised, I am affected so much. As what I have said, there are times, though we are epecting death, we can't really just act normally, that we still cry. I did not cry, I just felt I lost a very important person in my life as well.
Last 2009, I lost my grandpa Cornelio Lipa, 2010 I lost one of the oldest friends my dad have, Tito Magong Makilan, of which I sometimes get my allowance when my parents forgot to leave me some, and earlier this year I lost a dad's friend as well, Tito Boy2 Javelona, who is a close relative as well. The feeling of having to hear eulogy speeches is something that I can't really sustain. I end up teary-eyed to crying normally, how much more if they are important people of my life.
Mr. Alfredo Victor Uy, or Sir Victor, was our trainer when our college (La Salle College of Nursing) bagged it's first ever Cheering Championship title 2010. He was the first choreographer I worked with when I have decided to take part in my college activities through the school fashion/musicale production show ALL OUT 2: The Musical, the time when I was exposed to the college council activities, thus giving me a break to becoming one of the active members of the college's cultural committee.
Sir Victor was an inspiration to a lot of people. He taught as about humility over victory, and acceptance upon failure. He was the person who stressed how important attitude is as a dancer. Being a part of a team where I am not one of the best dancers, I have felt equality, with him everybody has equal opportunity, so as long as we practice discipline. He gave as so much lessons about personality that is why, a lot of student nurses look up to him. The leaders of our college from 2007 until even 2012, are all inspired by his training, and though the succeeding classes may not have experienced his greatness, we still consider him as his products, since we the nursing leaders have also taught them attitude the same ways as how Sir Victor & Miss AJ did. Sir Victor made us realize that winning or losing is not really everything, but the gift of friendship is, the gift of talent is, of later on I considered, the Gift of RED SQUAD. He taught us how to faithful people, he taugh us how we should be thankful to the Lord for givig us talents, offering everything to the lord during our performances and accepting what God has to offer for the results. Sir Victor taught us about healthy competition, that we should only focus on our own team, and not be concerned with the other teams. He taught as how to stand professional, and how to healthy competitors.
I guess the closest experience I have with him was during our first cheering competition together, being his dancer, and being a person who usually fears result announcements, I was sitting beside him along the AVRC stairs of La Salle Cody Hall, where he was just quiet, I was telling him sir I hope we one, and he was telling me to just keep quiet and pray. He will always be remembered of the Choco Mucho, and that tradition we always do before we perform. His hypertensiveness will always be remembered. All of us we partly scared of him, but everybody is just inspire more than being scared. Everyday with him was "make sure" days, as he always tell us, "how you are on practice is how you will be in the competition", so nobody was really laid back and confident about the competition until that very day that we were hailed Champions. Sir, I know you're going to tell us it's because we worked for it so hard, but the truth is, we may not have won that if it wasn't for you and your team who were miniature representations of you. Haaaaay, can we call ourselves little victors? Not just of dance but also of personality and leadership.
Most of the leaders in the La Salle College of Nursing can attest of how good Sir Victor is as a person. He was also one of the people behind the success of La Salle College of Education, where they were able to attain GrandSlam success.
As for the College of Nursing, Sir Victor is our father in the Nursing Red Squad, though he has not been able to teach us for the last 2 years of the competition, we were still moved by his passion, his attitude, his optimism and thankful that through him, the college was able to have little trainers, such a big discount for a College Officer like me.
Sir Victor, how we wish you may have more people to inspire, to teach, but we know you are on a better place now. A place where there will be no competition. The way you like it, where everybody will dance just for the heck of it, for the sake of beauty, talent and for God.
You will forever be remembered, and your virtues will always carry as we continue to be an inspiration for others. To be angels of God, to be little dance trainers. For as long as we your beloved student nurses are alive, your words will always be. We are all looking forward to that day where we can all dance with you again. Until the next show. WE ♥ YOU SO MUCH.
Friday, April 15, 2011
MEDICAL MARIJUANA: An Update.
MEDICAL MARIJUANA, this may sound so familiar to your ears when you ask people why are they hooked up with the herb. There have been circulating stories that Marijuana is therapeutic or pallative, but nobody in the medical field have really owned to that fact. Considered as a harmful drug, Marijuana is known to be the most widely used and the abusers are increasing in number.
An updated posted by @MosbysNursing via twitter caught my attention about MEDICAL MARIJUANA. The article presents a list of states in the U.S., who are allowing the use of marijuana to manage pain, nausea and loss of appetite on americans suffering froms serious life-deteriorating illnesses.
The American Academy of Pain Medicine, released guidelines for the responsibilities in the administration of the the now THERAPEUTIC drug, as published by fiercepracticemanagement.com (I personally highlighted the statements that I think, a nurse can able to deliver independently/collaboratively with the rest of the health team)
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Do- Know and comply with state laws on medical marijuana.
- Ensure the physician's medical license and patient's residence are both in a ‘legal' state, with the exception of Oregon and Montana.
- Establish a bona fide physician-patient relationship before recommending the drug.
- Disclose risks of medical marijuana, including side effects, drug interactions and effects on preexisting conditions.
- Follow up and monitor the patient using medical marijuana and modify treatment accordingly.
- Provide copies of medical records that include a medical marijuana recommendation, rather than completing a separate form or certification.
- Give specific directions regarding amounts, methods of delivery or time of use.
- Direct patients to specific dispensaries or other sources of medical marijuana.
- Confirm a cannabis recommendation with the patient's medical marijuana provider.
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LEGAL. Further searching of articles provided a list of countries where use of Marijuana is legalized, decriminalized, depenalized (allows minimal use or private use) or de facto (technically illegal but no arrests are made when used publicly) . They are as follows:- Argentina
- Australia (Some of it's states)
- Belgium
- Brazil
- Cambodia
- Canada
- Costa Rica
- Czech Republic
- Estonia
- Finland (for medical use)
- India (least priority)
- Iran (if planted and used as food, illegal if used as a drug)
- Israel (for medical use)
- Mexico
- Netherlands
- Pakistan (rarely enforced)
- Peru (as long as user does not possess any other form of drug)
- Portugal
- Spain
- Uruguay
Another article published online by JapanHemp.org published that there were reports that the World Health Organization ommitted some statements proving that Marijuana is even less harmful compared to the legalized Nicotine and Alcohol.
3RD WORLD. Being a 22 year-old, I have been exposed to the fact that Marijuana as an illegal drug and a harmful substance for almost 12 years, and this update really caught my attention. It's like changing the way you see life for so long, it's like a change of faith or belief, that you begin to question if there are still things that you follow that may not really be true at all. I hope that this article reached the National Health Offices of the different asian countries. I wanted a reaction from our local Philippined Department of Health regarding this medical update and hope to have my questions answered. I will be posting another blog, if my e-mails to DOH and Sen. Pia Cayetano will recieve any response.
I AM NO USER, JUST BLOGGING ABOUT IT. ☺
Source: www.FiercePracticeManagement.com
Photos: http://factsanddetails.com, http://www.antifascistencyclopedia.com, http://smartstat.com, http://www.michaelm.com
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
E-COMMUNICATION: A New Trend in Nursing Therapeutic Management
Communication plays a vital role in the Healthcare Industry. From delivering doctors' prescriptions, patients' responsibility to drug administration to reporting current health status of patiens, it has became a tool to an efficient client care and a more effective delivery of care intra-care and post-care.
"I feel that with improved communication options for patients and families, better care can be provided, and patient or family concerns addressed in a more timely fashion or in real time." shared Dr. Philip A. Philip of the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute in an interview with the Detroit Free Press.
As smartphones go up the current trends for technology, it has also paved the way for an easier way to report health conditions. You may not have realized, but you can actually do a twitpic or go MMS to report a relative's health condition (discolorations, abnormal growth etc...). We can have superficial skin assessments through video calling, features that SKYPE offers to its users. It is also a useful tool to update or educate the caretakers, relatives or private nurse practitioners about the plan of care for the clients. Technology and the healthcare industry are definitely inseperable. And as the rise of communication technology continues, so as healthcare delivery. More efficient, more immediate, more upclose & personal.
Being in a 3rd world country, I personally feel home visits, clinic visits, physical assessments, community outreach programs, are more effective, the traditional means, as ways to actually interact with the people, with the clients as it is a tested & proven tool to educate them. As shared by Dr. Matthew Davis, director of the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health at the University of Michigan, "We need to see electronic messaging as a replacement for a phone call, not as a substitution for a visit."
Source: http://www.fiercepracticemanagement.com
Photos by: http://www.gostudentnurse.com, http://blog.dialaphone.co.uk, http://www.babble.com
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
3RD WORLD COUNTRIES HAVE INCREASED RISK FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
RESEARCH. Duncan Green of Oxfam International, author of "FROM POVERTY to POVERTY" posted recently in one of his blogs at Oxfamblogs.org that there are ongoing researches that look at the probability of those countries who produce lesser greenhouse gasses to be largely affected by the phenomenal climate change.
According to the article, "To estimate the impact of climate change on people, scientists from McGill University, Montreal, developed a new metric called Climate Demography Vulnerability Index (CDVI). This takes into account how regional climate will change as well as how much local population is expected to grow. They incorporated this index into a global map and found highly vulnerable regions included central South America, the Middle East and both eastern and southern Africa. Less vulnerable regions were largely in the northern part of the Northern Hemisphere."
The first map below, courtesy of Oxfamorg.com, shows those areas who produce large amounts of greenhouse gases. And the other map shows the vulnerability of these areas to climate change.
GREENHOUSE EFFECT is a atmospheric phenomenon that happens when gases entrap heat in the Earth's surface, leading to what they call as GLOBAL WARMING. According to National Geographic, most greenhosue gas emissions are from "fossil fuels in cars, factories and electricity production." When we were kids, we believe that Carbon Dioxide emissions have been the cause of all of these, it is correct, but there are even more gases that contribute to the danger twice as much as CO2. Methane for example which is capable to trap heat to up to twenty times as CO2 can, and Nitrous Oxide can entrap 150 times of Methane's capability, that's 300 times more dangerous than CO2. "Other contributors include methane released from landfills and agriculture (especially from the digestive systems of grazing animals), nitrous oxide from fertilizers, gases used for refrigeration and industrial processes" and as our forest reserves decrease per year, the more CO2 there is left in the atmosphere unabsorbed and unused. Harmful.
3RD WORLD. I am from the Philippine Islands. And I am not even from the Northern part of my country where pollution seemed to be so impossible to resolve. I am from a city where industrialization is a boom but we can still enjoy the blessing of fresh air. We are no match to the extra large and extra fast paced economy and lifestyle of Metro Manila, and so are we not even half of bustling lifestyle of the West. We are home to some of the biggest Sugar Milling Companies of the country and may as well be considered adding up to the damage, but everybody is, good thing for us we still have vast greeneries to neutralize those gases, but that may not assure as of any safety. Because we may have lots of trees to normalize our environmental problems, we are still on that part of that said map believed to be greatly affected by the the consequences. I am no scientist and I am not even a part of those factories to really be so serious about it. But I care for the Earth as much as anybody is, everybody is, and that I know is a serious matter. I guess this may be a warning to everyone. We only have a lifetime of health and a wonderful planet to offer our kids. We should think about the younger people to, before the time is over.
According to the article, "To estimate the impact of climate change on people, scientists from McGill University, Montreal, developed a new metric called Climate Demography Vulnerability Index (CDVI). This takes into account how regional climate will change as well as how much local population is expected to grow. They incorporated this index into a global map and found highly vulnerable regions included central South America, the Middle East and both eastern and southern Africa. Less vulnerable regions were largely in the northern part of the Northern Hemisphere."
The first map below, courtesy of Oxfamorg.com, shows those areas who produce large amounts of greenhouse gases. And the other map shows the vulnerability of these areas to climate change.
GREENHOUSE EFFECT is a atmospheric phenomenon that happens when gases entrap heat in the Earth's surface, leading to what they call as GLOBAL WARMING. According to National Geographic, most greenhosue gas emissions are from "fossil fuels in cars, factories and electricity production." When we were kids, we believe that Carbon Dioxide emissions have been the cause of all of these, it is correct, but there are even more gases that contribute to the danger twice as much as CO2. Methane for example which is capable to trap heat to up to twenty times as CO2 can, and Nitrous Oxide can entrap 150 times of Methane's capability, that's 300 times more dangerous than CO2. "Other contributors include methane released from landfills and agriculture (especially from the digestive systems of grazing animals), nitrous oxide from fertilizers, gases used for refrigeration and industrial processes" and as our forest reserves decrease per year, the more CO2 there is left in the atmosphere unabsorbed and unused. Harmful.
3RD WORLD. I am from the Philippine Islands. And I am not even from the Northern part of my country where pollution seemed to be so impossible to resolve. I am from a city where industrialization is a boom but we can still enjoy the blessing of fresh air. We are no match to the extra large and extra fast paced economy and lifestyle of Metro Manila, and so are we not even half of bustling lifestyle of the West. We are home to some of the biggest Sugar Milling Companies of the country and may as well be considered adding up to the damage, but everybody is, good thing for us we still have vast greeneries to neutralize those gases, but that may not assure as of any safety. Because we may have lots of trees to normalize our environmental problems, we are still on that part of that said map believed to be greatly affected by the the consequences. I am no scientist and I am not even a part of those factories to really be so serious about it. But I care for the Earth as much as anybody is, everybody is, and that I know is a serious matter. I guess this may be a warning to everyone. We only have a lifetime of health and a wonderful planet to offer our kids. We should think about the younger people to, before the time is over.
Video courtesy of youtube.com/dannyzhao. Photos courtesy of NationalGeographic & www.Oxfamblogs.org
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