TUS: Midlands Nursing and Health Blog

Monday, November 23, 2015

[Alternative health Spot] Dr. Simoncini Baking Soda Treatment For Cancer (NaHCO3)

Disclaimer: Alternative Corner is posted for interest only; this blog does not advocate any particular treatment.

This treatment was developed in Italy by an oncologist and uses baking soda or sodium bicarbonate.

This treatment is primarily used for cancer of the digestive tract, including cancers of the throat, colon, intestines, rectal area, and other cancers in between.

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Nurse recruitment problems at 'crisis point

Difficulties in recruiting and retaining nurses are at crisis levels with over 1,500 vacancies, a conference has heard.

The problem is most acute in the specialised elderly care sector and experts said retaining staff in areas where there are high stress levels, due to shortages, is a major issue.

Managing Director of PCQ Nurse Recruitment Paul Chandler said that the situation around the country was bleak and in the elderly sector alone, there were around 1,000 nursing vacancies.

The recruitment embargo introduced by the HSE in 2009 meant there were absolutely no staff jobs in the health service for the 1,500 nurses and 727 doctors graduating each year.

This coincided with aggressive overseas recruitment campaigns by health services inAustralia and the UK, which were experiencing acute shortages of healthcare staff

This new edition of Health at a Glance presents the most recent comparable data on the performance of health systems in OECD countries. Where possible, it also reports data for partner countries (Brazil, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, India, Indonesia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russian Federation and South Africa). Compared with the previous edition, this new edition includes a new set of dashboards of health indicators to summarise in a clear and user-friendly way the relative strengths and weaknesses of OECD countries on different key indicators of health and health system performance, and also a special focus on the pharmaceutical sector. This edition also contains new indicators on health workforce migration and on the quality of health care.

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Thursday, October 29, 2015

Quickest way to LOWER your blood pressure REVEALED....and it can be done in just 10 DAYS

CUTTING sugar in diets – even without reducing calories – can improve your health in 10 days.

If the children lost weight, they were given more low sugar foods to keep weight stable. Total dietary sugar was reduced from 28 per cent to 10per cent. It led to swift improvements in health. Jean-Marc Schwarz, senior author of the paper, said: “I have never seen results as striking or significant.

“They were consuming the same number of calories as before, just with significantly less sugar. “After only nine days, the results are dramatic and consistent from subject to subject. These findings support the idea that it is essential for parents to evaluate sugar intake.”

Researchers believe it is the kind of calorie we take in that affects health. Dr Lustig explained: “Where those calories come from determines where in the body they go. Sugar calories are worst – they turn to fat in the liver.

Journal of Compassionate Health Care

New open access Journal also on Bio Med Central: Journal of Compassionate Health Care

The inspiration for this new open access journal, Journal of Compassionate Health Care emerged from the apparent need to restore humanity to healthcare, particularly within a period of austerity that has been affecting many countries. In 2011, we organized a successful Symposium on the topic of compassion in health care [1] at the University of Greenwich, UK, bringing together key people from various backgrounds with an interest in moving forward with the science and art of compassion. From this Symposium, we realized that people are united in the importance of developing compassionate health care settings, through a multidisciplinary approach.

This editorial seeks to enhance the broad concept of compassionate health care, in theory and in practice by inviting practitioners and researchers in health care to consider compassionate care as a core subject in their interest and research priorities. The journal aims to provide a vehicle for bringing together multidisciplinary perspectives, research and initiatives concerning the concept of compassionate health care, which has recently received much attention and interest. Here we explain the motivation behind the new open access journal, and we invite health care practitioners and researchers to join us in promoting the Journal’s aims and scope.

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Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Thru A Nurse's Eyes: The Other Side Of The Rails

I have been a nurse for 25 years at a large, inner city, level 1 trauma center in Pittsburgh. My entire career has been dedicated to taking care of patients like this. Never in my worst nightmare did I ever think I would become one of them. Being a patient is indescribable, especially when your medical resume reads like an epitaph. It was humbling, humiliating, embarrassing, painful, incredibly frightening at times, and an overwhelmingly eye opening experience that has forced me to look at the nurse that I was.

Once I was conscious, and able to absorb the chronicles of my autobiography for the previous 2 1/2 months, I needed time to feel, to really comprehend what happened to me. The anxiety arising from the inability to breathe was unspeakable and exhausting. It is forever embedded in my memories. Before I knew it I was intubated, sedated, and placed on ECMO. The nightmare had begun.

Monday, August 17, 2015

Those Thank Yous Go a Small Way (& 9 more inspiring nursing stories from All Health Care)

So there I was, having a tough night in the ER. Five PTs, couple of belly pains, acute pancreatitis, intractable pain (not drug seeker but the real thing d/t spinal stenosis) and yes, one actual drug seeker (great actor though). Orders coming in simultaneously, docs calling to give more orders, call bells going off, charting being done on scrap paper for later input into the computer, you know, the usual new grad time management spin and futz.
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Nursing News from Nursing Times.net: Wide variation in hospital scores for 'dementia friendliness

Healthcare professionals’ own assessments of how dementia-friendly their settings are reveal “alarming” variations across England, experts say.

The PLACE (Patient-Led Assessment of the Care Environment) scores focus on the environment in care homes and hospitals, including how well they protect patients’ dignity, the food and catering, and general maintenance.

Welcome to our inspirational quotes, poems and stories for nurses. Nursing can be difficult and very stressful at times, so we have dedicated this area of our website to inspirational quotes, poems and stories. If you would like to send us something to post in the inspirational section, you can email the Onlyanurse.com editor at Keith@onlyanurse.com

We hope you enjoy these inspirations and hope that whatever you may be going through, you find something here that brings you comfort and happiness, if only just for a moment!

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Nursing poems

Nurse
Submitted by Paul Nickerson - Paul is not a Nurse, but his Mother , now retired, was for many years. Paul found this poem tucked away
in a small photo album belonging to his mother.

It was a game we all played as a child
Then some of us made it a dream worthwhile
More to learn, not as much time to share
Because in our hearts we really cared

We have worked the late night hours
While others slept away
Handles a doctor's many moods
Then found time to pray

Critical moments that remain as memories
Some sad - then some are good
Then there are the tragedies
That will never be understood

We see a newborn baby smile
As we watch another slip away
And that completes the circle
The price for life's that paid

Sometimes not appreciated
When just a hug will do
We are proud of our profession
A gift from me to you

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The 10 ups and downs of being a Nurse: Taken from the blog Mighty nurse

Nursing kind of reminds me of a roller coaster… You start off just trying to find one to get on. Which line is the shortest (how many people are applying)? Are you tall enough (do you have experience)? And when you finally find one that you’re able to ride, you buckle up and hold on for dear life
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