Monday, December 28, 2009

Health Tips - Doctor or Nursing

Basically, a hospital is a centre of patient care where anybody needing the services of a doctor or nursing can approach for adequate help support and care, however, caring for patient is not the only function performed by the hospital. Some of the other important functions are;

The hospitals of today are actively involved in the prevention of diseases along with the basic function of caring for the sick. Public Health Promotion of individual and community health is another important function of modern hospitals. Almost every big and important hospital also functions as the training centre for hospital specialists like the doctor, the nurse and others. The hospital as a training centre has the spot experience of dealing with patients under the over all supervision of the teacher, who also works as the specialist in the hospital. For the same reason for which hospitals are excellent training centers for doctors and nurses and other hospital, they are also so for important researches in the field of sciences, medicines and nursing.

Friday, December 25, 2009

Hospital Work

In the early days the hospitals used to be single storied but spread out in vast areas. They created many operational difficulties. It was not easy to reach to reach a department from another. The same kitchen not serves the whole hospital and so on. In time skyscraper hospitals became the order of the day. Today we find that there is hardly any city which does not have a hospital identified by its huge, multistoreyed building.

Hospitals of today are well equipped with lifts, centrally located kitchens clean huge wards operation theatres, etc. Almost all main sections are centrally air-conditioned. There are facilities for emergency lighting so that in case the main electricity supply goes away hospital work is not stopped.

Even the rooms are arranged more in order to look good as well as be clean enough to be called a hospital room. Many of the general hospitals also have the facility for private rooms where charges are asked for exclusive privacy for those who can afford it. It is also endeavored that the surroundings of the hospital should be developed in a beautiful way. This is specially tried in case of mental hospitals where the need for aesthetically beautiful surrounding is very strong.

Sunday, December 20, 2009

How can a beginner Adjust

As in the case of any professional career, nursing too has certain basic yet elementary requirement which if the student pay attention to can find it a lot easier to adjust to the institute pays attention to, can find it a lot easier to adjust to the institute environment and routine. We give some of these requirements.

Everybody knows that nurse’s wear white. It has been from the beginning of the profession and is not likely to change in the future.

Because when one is caring for the sick, one must wear clothier which are the cleanest and have the least possibility of getting germinated. White is such a color which allows for neither to be undetected. This is important because the patient need full protection from infection from outside and the nurse wearing white guarantees that.

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

NURSING AS AN ART

The act of caring, nothing can teach to the nurse. That she has to evolve all by herself. And that depends on the personality of the nurse. Whatever she does as a nurse has the stamp of her personality. In howsoever way she makes use of the knowledge she has gained through her study of the relevant sciences, will depend on what she is as an individual. The art of caring. The art of making a dying patient want to live. All these can be developed only by the nurse herself. And she can do it successfully only when she does so as if it were an art, creative, fulfilling and rewarding. Basic to nursing is the need to look after, but also too see his spirit and his soul in good condition where they are as free as they should be. Mind is as important as the body. And the soul and the spirit are equally so. Great is the nurse who has been able to nurse all-the body, the mind, the soul the sprit.

To conclude, nursing can be defined as a service to the individual which helps which helps him to regain, or to keep, a normal state of body and mind; when it can not accomplish this it helps him to gain relief from physical pain, mental anxiety or spiritual discomfort.

Sunday, December 13, 2009

HEALTH TIPS - NORMAL BREATHING

Necessary for the very survival of all of us, when we become sick and our breathing becomes unnatural in any way, it is the function of the nurse to do everything possible to make our breathing as normal as possible. For every thing else depends on the regular way in which we breathe.

Sleeping is a must for all of us. We must sleep a minimum length of time in the course of every 24 hours to be able to lead a normal life. When we are sick and require medical attention, one of the first things that are affected is our sleep. It is very important for a patient to be able to sleep as normally and for as normal length of time that we are able to sleep when not well. It is for the nurse to see that we achieve this aim in the shortest possible time.

Thursday, December 10, 2009

HEALTH TIPS - HOW OLD ARE NURSING

It is interesting to note that the word ‘Nurs’ is from Latin nutricious which means that nourishes, fosters, and protects. One would find all the basic characteristics of nursing emanating from this basic meaning. Today nursing means not only that nourishes, fosters and protects it also means to prevent illness to avoid injury to educate to sustain and to give. You will notice that all the extra meanings have come from the basic meaning.

Since the basic element of nursing is caring and since caring has always been part of human life, nursing has existed in some form or the other throughout human history. From the day man decided to live with other man, forming thereby groups, need has been felt for the care of the too young, too old and too injurious. Predictably the onus of nursing has fallen on women since men would go out hunting for good. From the simple act of caring for the too young, the too old and the too injurious to the complex level of services rendered by the nurse of today. History has seen remarkable development in the field.

Sunday, December 6, 2009

HEALTH TIPS - WHAT IS NURSING


When we think of a nurse what we see is a woman in a white uniform who works in a hospital. It is the most far more varied. Today, nurses are no more confined to the hospital. We can find them working in research laboratories, rural health centers, and in industries, working as private duty nurse, industrial nurse, head nurse, supervisor, instructor, administrator, counselor, consultant, and writer and research workers.

What is more, nursing no more remains the exclusive preserve of women. Men too are joining in increasing numbers.

What is nursing? To get an answer, we will have to go back to what Florence Nightingale, world’s most famous nurse, thought of nursing. She was the first nurse in the trust sense. She made nursing and concluded that contrary to what people thought, none of them actually cures the patient. What they do is make the suffering of the patient tolerable – as tolerable as possible. Let us take is piece by piece.

Thursday, December 3, 2009

How Exactly Does Natural Beta Carotene Help

Parry Natural Beta Carotene is a safe source of Vitamin A. But more importantly it acts as a potent anti-oxidant, protecting you from the ravages of free radical damage, reducing the risk of degenerative diseases like;

Cancer, Diabetes, Heart disease, Arthritis, Stress reactions, Cataract and other muscular degeneration conditions.

These are strongly implicated in the development of certain chronic diseases, such as coronary heart disease, and some cancers, such as coronary heart disease, and some cancers, such as lung and gut tumors. Excess numbers of free radicals are caused by smoking pollution and sun exposure among other things.

The antioxidants found in tea are flavonoids, powerful compounds that scientists believe are instrumental in fighting disease. Some researchers believe that the antioxicating properties of tea are more powerful than those of fruit and vegetables. One cup of tea supplies about 200 mg of flavonoids. Drinking three cups each day increases the concentration of flavonoids in the blood by 25 percent.