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RESULT: JUNE 2008 NURSING LICENSURE EXAMINATION

noreply@blogger.com (Nursing Tools) — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:02:00 +0000

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

YOU ARE NOW A REGISTERED NURSE.

Feel free to browse your name and see if it's on the list.

Godbless.

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June 2008 Nursing Board Exam Results

noreply@blogger.com (Nursing Tools) — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:45:00 +0000

Releasing of results is targeted on the third week of August. Estimated date is on August 15, 2008.
Results will be posted here or subscribe to our feed for easy access.

Godbless and Goodluck!

noreply@blogger.com (Nursing Tools) — Sat, 31 May 2008 16:43:00 +0000

You can do it guys!

My prayers are for you. Hope a lot of you will pass the 2008 June Philippine Licensure Exam.
Think positive. Pray always.

* Don't take the exam with an empty stomach.
* At least take an anti-allergy if you've got an scratchy throat.
* Take a bottle of water ( please don't take a cold water, or else your paper gets wet)
* Of course don't forget your calculator and your pencil)
* Reread and recheck.

Godbless you guys!

Pollution 'ups blood clot risk'

noreply@blogger.com (Nursing Tools) — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:50:00 +0000

BBC NEWS- Breathing in air pollution from traffic fumes can raise the risk of potentially deadly blood clots, a US study says.

Exposure to small particulates - tiny chemicals caused by burning fossil fuels - is known to increase the chances of heart disease and stroke.

But the Harvard School of Public Health found it also affected development of deep vein thrombosis - blood clots in the legs - in a study of 2,000 people.

Researchers said the pollution made the blood more sticky and likely to clot.
The team looked at people living in Italy - nearly 900 of whom developed DVT.
Blood clots which form in the legs can travel to the lungs, where they can become lodged, triggering a potentially fatal pulmonary embolism.

The risk of DVT is known to be increased by long periods of immobility. In particular, passengers on long-haul flights have been shown to be vulnerable, but so are people who spend long periods of time sitting at their office desk without exercising, or walking around.

Researchers obtained pollution readings from the areas they lived and found those exposed to higher levels of small particulates in the year before diagnosis were more likely to develop blood clots.

The Archives of Internal Medicine report said for every 10 microgrammes per square metre increase in small particulates, the risk of developing a DVT went up by 70%.
Air quality guidelines generally state that small particulate concentrations should not exceed 50 microgrammes.

Risk factor

Lead researcher Dr Andrea Baccarelli said: "Given the magnitude of the effects, our findings introduce a novel and common risk factor into the development of DVT.

"And, at the same time, they give further substance to the call for tighter standards and continued efforts aimed at reducing the impact of urban air pollutants on human health."
Dr Beverley Hunt, medical director of the DVT charity Lifeblood, said: "We have known for some time that air pollution has been associated with increased risk of heart attack and stroke.
"This study shows for the very first time that air pollution also increases the risk of clots in the veins and tells us why.

"It's an exciting finding because air quality is something we can improve on through tightening air quality legislation."

Code of Ethics: New Nursing Curriculum

noreply@blogger.com (Nursing Tools) — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:48:00 +0000

Due to the incident happened in Cebu (canister scandal), CHED decided to revise the curriculum of Bachelor of Science in Nursing under CHED NO.5. Freshmen students will have 2 additional subjects like 'Theoretical Foundation in Nursing' and 'Fundamentals of Nursing Practice'. The purpose of its revision is to inculcate in the minds of each the student, the worth of being professional on its field.

CHED Memorandum

noreply@blogger.com (Nursing Tools) — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:04:00 +0000

Philippine Star
May 7, 2008

The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) has prohibited students in medical-related courses from using cellular phones, cameras and video cameras while attending clinical practices, in the aftermath of the Cebu rectal surgery scandal.

In a memorandum, CHED acting chairman Romulo Neri “admonished” all CHED regional directors and heads of private and public colleges and universities offering health-related courses to advise their students to “refrain from using” such devices while undertaking practicum or clinical classes.

A copy of the memorandum, dated April 24, was sent to the Department of Health (DOH).
In another development, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III called the attention of Multiply, a social networking website, on photographs of a pap smear procedure uploaded on the site.
“It has come to our attention that videos/images of medical procedures are being posted on your website without the consent of the patient. We bring to your attention a specific posting of one of your users which publicized the pap smear done by several nursing students which appear to be unknown to the patients,” Duque said in his letter addressed to the president of Multiply.com.
The STAR tried to access the link to the account of one Sally Mercado of Batangas but it was no longer available.

Update: Rectal Surgery Scandal

noreply@blogger.com (Nursing Tools) — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:38:00 +0000

Admin, criminal raps poised vs Cebu hospital personnel
By Edu Punay
Philippine Star
Wednesday, May 7, 2008

The Office of the Ombudsman in the Visayas has recommended the filing of criminal and administrative charges against seven doctors, four nurses, two clinical instructors, and a nursing aide who were implicated in the operating room scandal at the government-run Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) in Cebu City.

The anti-graft investigators said they found ample grounds to file charges of violation of Republic Act 3019 (Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act) and grave misconduct against the VSMMC medical personnel who were caught on video laughing while conducting surgery on a 39-year-old gay florist to extract a perfume canister from his rectum last Jan. 3. The video recording was made without the consent of the patient.

The footage, which was uploaded on YouTube, a video-sharing Internet site, showed the medical personnel in the operating room making jokes and jeering as they performed the procedure.
The Ombudsman identified the accused as Doctors Phillip Leo Arias, Marlowe Parreno, Angelo Linawagan, Alfred Joseph De Leon, Joanne Mae Merilles, Serapio Salazar and Max Joseph Montecillo, registered nurses Isabelita Remulta, Carmenia Sapio, Consuelo Tecling and Ida Sumayang, clinical instructors Ramon Pandaan and a certain A. Opado from Southwestern University, and nursing aide Rosemarie Villareal.

In its recommendation, the Ombudsman-Visayas ruled that the medical staff committed misconduct for unlawful behavior and gross negligence as public officers.
Deputy Ombudsman Pelagio Apostol, head of the anti-graft office in the Visayas, said their fact-finding panel conducted a two-week investigation and assessment of the complaint filed by the patient, whose identity has been withheld, last April 21.

In his complaint, the patient said he suffered humiliation after the video of his operation was posted on YouTube.

In his nine-page affidavit, the complainant though did not identify the doctors, nurses and interns involved, but only gave reference to a certain Dr. Arias.
Clinical forms and a discharge sheet from the hospital were attached to the complaint prepared by his lawyer Guiller Ceniza.

The patient accused the VSMMC personnel who attended his surgery of violating his rights to privacy and confidentiality and reflecting a poor sense of professionalism.
He cited provisions of RA 4224 (Code of Ethics of the Medical Profession in the Philippines), the Code of Ethics for Registered Nurses, the Hippocratic Oath and the Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards for Public Officials.

“I strongly believe the doctors and nurses of the Vicente (Sotto) Memorial Medical Center and the hospital itself violated my right to privacy and confidentiality. Without my consent, they took videos of the operation showing my private parts and my unusual and embarrassing condition,” he said.

“Instead of observing professional courtesy and giving sympathy to a victim of sexual abuse, the doctors, the nurses and the hospital entertained themselves at my expense, by making fun at my condition; they jeered, laughed, shouted, uttered mischievous statements and cheered on many occasions during the operation; evidently, they were trying to mock and ridicule me,” he added.

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Good to know! At least, medical practitioners now are more cautious on handling patients. Lessons learned from the incident happened.

Hope there will be no medical scandals that will happen again. Be professional and review the Code of Ethics.

Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI)

noreply@blogger.com (Nursing Tools) — Tue, 06 May 2008 09:28:00 +0000

The Philippine Department of Health (DOH) adopted the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) strategy to address the country’s problem of child morbidity and mortality.

This strategy improves the case management skills of health workers, selected health systems operations, and family/community practices in childcare.

Health workers implement the strategy over many parts of the country. In Regions 1, 3, 10 and 11, Helen Keller International (HKI) provided technical assistance since 2000 to improve IMCI strategy implementation.

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As the National Licensure Exams for nurses is fast approaching, I've uploaded an IMCI file for study porpuses only.

Hope this can help to your incoming exams.

IMCI- DOWNLOAD HERE

NCLEX Hot Topics

noreply@blogger.com (Nursing Tools) — Tue, 06 May 2008 09:00:00 +0000

NCLEX Hot Topics Vol 1 - Medical / Surgical topics

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Volume one covers Medical-Surgical topics. Including Respiratory, Circulatory, Renal, Digestive and Urinary systems.

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NCLEX Hot Topics Vol 3 - Psychiatric and Nutrition topics

Volume three of our Hot Topics series covers Psychiatric and Nutrition topics. Also included are Cranial Nerves and Lab values.

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NCLEX: Kaplan Audio Download

noreply@blogger.com (Nursing Tools) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:46:00 +0000

KAPLAN MP3 DOWNLOAD

35 hrs audio lecture covering Physiological Integrity, Psychosocial Integrity, Safe & Effective Care, Health Promotions & Maintenance.

FOR STUDY PURPOSES ONLY!

DOWNLOAD HERE

Vicente Sotto Hospital Canister Scandal

noreply@blogger.com (Nursing Tools) — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:05:00 +0000

Credits to: themousepotato.com

DoH names docs, nurses in Cebu ‘canister scandal’
By Jeannette Andrade
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 16:20:00 04/22/2008
MANILA, Philippines —

The Department of Health (DoH) has named the three doctors and two nurses of the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) in Cebu City who may face charges for the so-called “canister scandal.”

Secretary Francisco Duque III identified the VSMMC medical staff as head surgeon Philips Leo Arias; assistant surgeons Angelo Linawagan and Max Joseph Montecillo; nursing attendant Rosemarie Villareal; and circulating nurse Carmina Sapio.

Duque said at a press conference Tuesday at the DoH main office in Manila that more persons may be named respondents, depending on the outcome of the preliminary investigation.
The violations they may be charged with, the secretary said, range from simple neglect to grave misconduct. But he emphasized that before administrative charges are filed, due process must be observed.

“I would like to clarify and stress, no charges have been filed as of yet because we need to follow certain procedures. It behooves upon us to make sure that the processes, the procedures are being followed. Ayaw nating ma-teknikal tayo [We don’t want to be caught in a technicality],” the DoH secretary pointed out.

He explained that, while the VSMMC and the DoH Central Visayas have conducted their respective fact-finding investigations, the hospital still has to issue show-cause letters to the respondents and allow them to explain why they should not be charged.

It is only after they have responded can the DoH conduct a preliminary investigation into the possible filing of administrative charges, during which the levels of participation and corresponding sanctions will be determined.

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Below is the actual video on the operating room. Video is converted already to 3gp file, which you can download directly to your mobilephones.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD

I'm lucky enough to upload the video from youtube before they remove it again. As I know, they prohibit the distribution of the video.

As what I've read in the news, the Hospital Administration were only blaming on a student nurse, who took and uploaded the video. What?! come on, try to see the video again. How many people were there on the footage holding their cellphone near the guy’s ass? While other people on the Operating Room are having fiesta.

Such a shame to those who were inside the operating room. You've violated the clients privacy.

This incident can bring lesson on students and professionals who are in the medical field.

Cebu Doctors Show Disrespect to Gay Patient

noreply@blogger.com (Nursing Tools) — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:59:00 +0000

A 39-year-old homosexual is planning to sue a medical team after he saw in a cellular phone of a friend last Friday a circulated video footage of the operation to extract a perfume canister stuck in his anus during a sexual act.

The operation on the man, who only wants to be identified as “Jan-Jan,” was done at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) last Jan. 3 yet, but the video footage has been circulating through cell phones since then and was even uploaded in the video-sharing web site, YouTube.

“I trusted them. And yet they ridiculed me behind my back…Was that something a professional would do? I can’t even walk the streets without being laughed at by neighbors. I want my ordeal to end. And I hope it doesn’t happen to anyone else,” Jan-Jan told Sun.Star Cebu in Cebuano.

The video that runs for two minutes and 28 seconds shows an operating team of more than 10 people laughing, with someone shouting instructions while the operation was going on.

It captures individuals with mobile phones and cameras taking footage of the operation. A brief panning motion shows some of the faces of the people involved in the procedure.Loud cheering and shouting can be heard as the canister that someone describes as a “baby” is slowly pulled out of the anus. One of the staff even opens the perfume and sprays it around.All the time, the patient whose face is not visible in the video, is unconscious.

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This is a violation in many levels:

* The doctor-patient confidentiality ethic was not followed.
* There were more than enough people in the operating room (most of them were only there to record the procedure on their cellphones).
* The loud, childish jeers from the crowd after the spray can was removed was sickening. A clear disrespect for the patient.
* And the doctor had the gall of telling this to the patient, as stated in that same report…“On Jan. 5, when Jan-Jan was scheduled to be released, his doctor approached him and asked if he wanted to earn money by uploading the video taken during his operation on YouTube. Ashamed with what had happened, he refused.”

When Terri Hatcher said that infamous line in “Desperate Housewives”, which maligned the medical practitioners in the Philippines, most of our countrymen went gung-ho in protest.
But you know, she may have a point.

-Sunstar

Nurse's Kit Forum

noreply@blogger.com (Nursing Tools) — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:24:00 +0000

I have good news to my nursing readers. Recently, I made a forum for student nurses, professioal nurses for them to mingle other nursing professionals all over the world.

Instead of downloading some of the videos, mp3 and other review materials, you can find it there. (some of it are still underconstruction)

Visit http://nursingtools.techno-zone.net let your voice be heard!

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

noreply@blogger.com (Nursing Tools) — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:43:00 +0000

What is CPR?

About 75 percent to 80 percent of all out-of-hospital cardiac arrests happen at home, so being trained to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) can mean the difference between life and death for a loved one.

Effective bystander CPR, provided immediately after cardiac arrest, can double a victim’s chance of survival.

CPR helps maintain vital blood flow to the heart and brain and increases the amount of time that an electric shock from a defibrillator can be effective.

Approximately 95 percent of sudden cardiac arrest victims die before reaching the hospital.
Death from sudden cardiac arrest is not inevitable. If more people knew CPR, more lives could be saved.

Brain death starts to occur four to six minutes after someone experiences cardiac arrest if no CPR and defibrillation occurs during that time.

If bystander CPR is not provided, a sudden cardiac arrest victim’s chances of survival fall 7 percent to 10 percent for every minute of delay until defibrillation. Few attempts at resuscitation are successful if CPR and defibrillation are not provided within minutes of collapse.

Coronary heart disease accounts for about 450,000 of the 871,517 adults who die as a result of cardiovascular disease.

Approximately 325,000 of all annual adult coronary heart disease deaths in the U.S. are due to sudden cardiac arrest, suffered outside the hospital setting and in hospital emergency departments. About 900 Americans die every day due to sudden cardiac arrest.

Sudden cardiac arrest is most often caused by an abnormal heart rhythm called ventricular fibrillation (VF). Cardiac arrest can also occur after the onset of a heart attack or as a result of electrocution or near-drowning.

When sudden cardiac arrest occurs, the victim collapses, becomes unresponsive to gentle shaking, stops normal breathing and after two rescue breaths, still isn’t breathing normally, coughing or moving.

Videos:

CPR on Baby

CPR on Children

CPR on Adult

My Nursing Kit

noreply@blogger.com (Nursing Tools) — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:20:00 +0000

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