Give Thanks. Give Hope

The Healthier Ever After campaign is now over but there is another one for the the months of March, April, and May called Thanks and Giving Campaign.
I made a video for my Composition class about it, so here it is!

Healthier Ever After!

The Children's Mercy Campaign

What would a child’s life be like without fairy tales? Such stories serve as a child’s initiation into a world where anything is possible. Fairy tales teach us lessons of courage in the face of fear; hope when all seems lost; and promise - the promise that we can all find our "happily ever after."
Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics believes in the magic of fairy tales. We know first-hand that anything is possible because we have witnessed it. It’s likely that you have, too. Since the first chapter was written in 1897, our storybook has become filled with tales of physicians and nurses performing medical miracles and stories of astonishing strength displayed by the tiniest of bodies. As long as children are sick and require the best in medical care, our book will continue to grow with new stories of tremendous courage, hope and promise.
Children’s Mercy is now writing five new chapters in our storybook. These chapters are part of our Healthier Ever After campaign – a comprehensive, $200 million fundraising effort that will propel the hospital toward new levels of excellence in pediatric care, faculty support, facilities and research.
With your help, the funds raised through the campaign will allow us to further our position as one of the top children’s hospitals in the country.

Nursing Ethics

In essence, nursing ethics is a set of shared values or principles that govern the way nurses interact with patients, a patient's family, and even other doctors and nurses. In the United States, the American Nurses Association's (ANA) Code of Ethics outlines a nurse's ethical obligations and provides a non-negotiable ethical standard. It's kind of like an internal compass for navigating the clinical setting.

What Kind Of Ethical Issues Do Nurses Face?

Slight nuances set general medical ethics apart from ethics in nursing. Where doctors are concerned with treating the disease and finding a cure, nurses are dedicated to treating the person and easing suffering. That difference in perspective defines a nurse's ethical standpoint.
Some of the broader nursing ethics issues today include questions about end-of-life care or the place of spirituality in nursing. Ethical issues on a day-to-day basis often involve patient communication and advocacy. Nurses are often the ones working closest with a patient while administering ongoing care. Patients may express desires, questions, and fears with their nurse, and those sentiments need to be shared with the rest of the health care team.
From working with unbiased compassion to standing up for patients' rights, a nurse holds a wide range of responsibilities in addition to the actual physical work of caring for patients. The ANA's Code of Ethics guides nurses through these responsibilities, including:

• Practicing with compassion and respect for "the inherent dignity, worth and uniqueness of every individual"
• Always advocating for and striving to protect the health, safety, and rights of the patient
• Helping to advance nursing by contributing to education and promoting public health initiatives

Nurses specializing in health care ethics may serve on hospital ethics committees or work in a legal setting. But a nurse in any setting must rely on and refer back to the nursing code of ethics throughout his or her career.

Why Nursing Ethics Is Important

Having a code of ethics helps guide nurses through tricky situations and serves as a common reference point for everyone on the health care team. But the primary goal of nursing ethics is to protect patients. Veering from the code of ethics can lead to a breakdown in team communication and physical consequences for a patient.

http://www.medi-smart.com/nursing-articles/nursing-questions/ethics

Nursing Advisor for Afghanistan Army

Kelly Marotte of Chester with a young
patient at the Afghan National Army Hospital.

The Navy lieutenant was stationed in Kabul, and assigned to serve as combat nursing adviser for the Afghanistan army.
The entire Afghan army.
A 26-year-old Chester native, Marotte has the distinction of being the only American adviser helping the Afghans modernize nursing care, a stark contrast from her last job in the infants and children’s unit at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield.
Despite lacking state-of-the art equipment, the 300-bed facility treats combat casualties from hotspots such as Helmand and Kandahar; as surgical nursing adviser, Marotte oversees eight surgical units, an emergency room and an intensive care unit.
The concept of preventive medicine does not exist, and medical records are scare, Marotte said. There are no standards of nursing care, no policy and procedure manuals, and no patients bill of rights.
When she returned to home she took over as the division officer at Camp Pendleton's pediatric clinic, and is working on a masters degree.

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So I just wanted to tell everyone that I got ACCEPTED to Avila's nursing program!!! I will be transfering there next year.

Referred pain

I learned about this in my physiology class and I thought is was really interesting.  My professor also said that when you go to nursing school they drill this in your head and you have to know it.  In this picture the lines pointing to the colored area is where you feel pain from that organ.

I dont know why this keeps messing up!
Finding cures Saving children is the saying for St. Jude Research Hospital.  This is what the post was supposed to say:

I would love to work at this place one day.  On average, 5,700 active patients visit the hospital each year, most of who are treated on an outpatient basis.  St. Jude is the first and only pediatric cancer center to be designated as a Comprehensive Cancer Center by the National Cancer Institute.  St. Jude is the first institution established for the sole purpose of conducting basic and clinical research and treatment into catastrophic childhood diseases, mainly cancer.  It is the only pediatric cancer research center where families never pay for treatment not covered by insurance.  No child is ever denied treatment because the families inability to pay.  St. Jude has developed protocols that have helped pust overall survival rates for childhood cancers from less that 20 percent when the hospital opened in 1962 to 80 percent today.  in 1962, the survival rate fro acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the most common form of childhood cancer, was 4 percent.  Today, the survival rate for this once deadly disease is 94 percent, thanks to research and treatment protocols developed at St. Jude.  The current St. Jude survival rates for selected childhood cancers now include:

Diagnosis                                                         Survival Rate

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL),                                                          94%

most common form of childhood cancer                                      

Hodgkin lymphoma (cancer of the lymph system)                                         90%

Medulloblastoma (a type of brain tumor)                                                      85%

Wilms tumor (kidney tumor)                                                                         90%