It’s a dilemma to choice between two similar healthcare options such as nursing and occupational therapy. Once you go for occupational therapy it seems far more involved than becoming a nurse. It requires a more extensive level of studying. Nevertheless, this is not to say that occupational therapy is a more important position than nursing. Between nursing and occupational therapist it is more similar but it is equals the position of occupational therapist in this regard. Both are equally essential in the workings of any healthcare institution, and none can be classified as more important that the other.

Nurse is responsible for department budgets, disciplinary actions against employees and patient’s medical records. They handle the operations and staffing of specific units in a particular health care facility, such as a radiology department, intensive care or emergency unit. They are expected to assign nursing staff to each unit or department. The nursing plans for the patients in each unit are developed by the nurse manager, who coordinates the efforts of the nursing teams to keep everyone in the unit and department in one accord with patient’s medical care and condition. They will also develop new goals and plans for patients, as well as making sure unit equipment is functioning properly and safely for patients.

Occupational therapists have the major responsibility of helping the patients get back to their occupational activities, overcoming their physical disabilities. Along with helping the patients improve their motor skills, they help them improve their reasoning skills too. The therapist should acquire some skills to make the patient adaptable to his working atmosphere. Occupational therapists should have excellent communication skills, creativity skill and the ability to work in a team. For developing the individual’s performance, they also have to conduct necessary intervention programs.

Talking about the cases of both situation like in becoming a nurse and becoming an occupational therapist, you need to have a nurturing nature and a desire to want to help people. You must have the desire a certain task but will ultimately benefit the patient in terms of comfort, health and physical ability.

NU’91 – the Union that represents nurses in Holland – is launching a campaign today with the slogan “I draw the line here”.

The campaign aims to draw attention to the fact that offering “sexual services” to patients is NOT part of the standard service provided by nurses and carers.

This action was initiated after a 24 yr old nurse refused to provide sexual services for a 42 yr old disabled man. The man then tried to have her dismissed because of her refusal to do so – arguing that providing sexual services should be part of his care at home

Source . . .

Hhmm, perhaps he should move to Britain – http://tinyurl.com/ycz84y7

A union representing Dutch nurses will launch a national campaign Friday against demands for sexual services by patients who claim it should be part of their standard care.

The union, NU’91, is calling the campaign “I Draw The Line Here,” with an advert that features a young woman covering her face with crossed hands.

The union said in a statement Thursday that the campaign follows a complaint it had received in the last week from a 24-year-old woman who said a 42-year-old disabled man asked her to provide sexual services as part of his care at home.

The young woman witnessed some of the man’s other nurses offering him sexual gratification, the union said. When she refused to do the same, he tried to dismiss her on the grounds that she was unfit to provide care.

“This type of action is not part of the job responsibilities of carers and nurses,” NU’91 said.

The case has been reported to police, the union added.

For over one year our political leaders have been besieged by the health care crisis. Republicans, Democrats, and Independents have been consumed by debates over the best way to provide needed health care, and how to pay for it. Sarah Palin has caused “death panels” to become a household word, even though they are a figment of her imagination.  She suggested that “…my baby with Down’s Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s death panel so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their level of productivity in society, whether they are worthy of health care.  Such a system is downright evil.”  Yet, the problem that politicians are wrestling with is how to get health services to millions of average people, who have ordinary needs.

Women are dying unnecessarily from breast cancer.  Children are dying needlessly from illness and disease that could have been prevented with minimal health care, if provided initially, rather than after a crisis had occurred. Almost 46 million American have absolutely NO health insurance, and another 25 million more are underinsured.  These millions of Americans may include some with special needs but most are average people who have no way to obtain the basic health care services.  The issue facing the country is not about special needs children, but about ordinary Americans who go to work every day and still can’t afford basic health services.

Many employers have stopped offering health insurance because the cost is prohibitive.  In 2007 the United States health care spending totaled $2.4 trillion dollars, or $7,900 per person (according to an analysis published in the Journal of Health Affairs). The United States spends 52 percent more per person than the next most costly nation, Norway, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.   Thus everyone seems to agree that health care reform is necessary, including Republican and Democratic members of Congress, the American Medical Association, and America’s Health Insurance Plans, which represent the insurance industry.  The problem is reaching agreement on how to accomplish the goal.

What we need is bi-partisan support for a real solution.  Sarah Palin has not offered any solutions but only made it harder to solve the problem.  By causing fear and discontent she has added additional obstacles to the challenges that face politicians.  Since she has resigned her position as Governor, she doesn’t have to be accountable for solving the problems, but is able to spend her time criticizing those who are searching for a solution.  Palin gets paid thousands of dollars and increases her notoriety by adding to the discontentment.   Instead of offering solutions, she simply criticizes.

The hypocrisy of Palin has never been more evident than in her verbal attacks on health care reform.  We now know that she went to Canada as a child to take advantage of Canada’s nationalized health care, when her father, a school teacher, couldn’t afford the health care her family needed.  Even though Palin suggests that it is the family’s responsibility to provide health care for its members, and even though Palin is making millions for speaking engagements and book deals, her own grandchild relies on governmental health care.

Sarah Palin is not part of the solution this country needs; she is part of the problem.  “Common sense” tells me that if 71 million Americans can’t afford the basic health care, something is terribly wrong.  Palin is adding salt to our wounds!

Having worked as a nurse, I have seen ordinary ailments turn into a life-threatening crises, due to a patient’s inability to receive basic medical services in a timely fashion.  Having worked as a trial attorney representing medical doctors, I have seen frivolous lawsuits result in outrageous expense to the doctors and their insurance companies, which are passed on to the consumer.  At the same time, I have seen a limited number of medical doctors, allowed to continue practicing medicine when their patients were harmed by gross malfeasance.

As a patient with Multiple Sclerosis, I met a patient who was unable to leave her cheating husband because she was dependent upon him for her health care.  This patient was already blind in one eye, had limited vision in the other, so she could not drive.  This was a woman in her 30’s who had been in a wheel chair, but due to a new medicine she was receiving she was able to walk with a cane.  If she were to leave her husband she would be without medical insurance, her medicine would no longer be covered, and Multiple Sclerosis would be a pre-existing condition.  She would have returned to a wheelchair and would likely become totally blind.  When she confronted her husband about the fact that he was having an affair, he responded by asking, “What are you going to do about it?”  She was a prisoner in her marriage due to her inability to receive health care.  When I think of a “special needs” person, I think of this mother.  What are we doing about her special needs?

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In here, Sen. Legarda just finished a speech to the Alliance of Health Workers on the occasion of its 25th anniversary, Loren deplored that health workers in government and private hospitals, including doctors and nurses, are receiving starvation wages.

Deploring the lack of health workers to care for the Philippine population, Sen. Loren Legarda called for reforms in the health sector, including upgrading the salaries of health workers.

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DEAR ABBY: I’m worried about my 14-year-old granddaughter. She’s a good soccer player and frequently “heads” the soccer ball. I think this could be harmful to her brain.

I have spoken to two coaches about it; they say I shouldn’t worry. But I saw on the Internet that chronic traumatic brain injury has occurred in soccer and football players. What do you think? Should I pursue this concern? — GRANDMA AND NURSE IN HOUSTON

DEAR GRANDMA: What do your granddaughter’s parents have to say about this? Surely, she is not participating in a team sport without their written permission. That said, because everything one reads on the Internet isn’t necessarily accurate, if you wish to pursue this, I’d recommend you start by talking to a licensed medical professional.

Dear Grandma,

Sounds like you have had some head trauma.

You have done more damage to your granddaughter than any soccer ball ever will.

You claim to be a nurse? Remind me never to go to a hospital in Houston.

I cannot believe that this letter got published it should have been thrown in the trash.

What else have you read on the internet? Have you won any lotteries in Canada or Sengal? Did you send any checks to African royalty to help them get their funds out of the county.

The lesson taken from this letter should be that all old people need to stay off the internet.

Scoot

Cardiff will be one of six pilot areas for a new scheme offering HIV testing on the high street.

Superdrug has announced plans to offer a confidential drop-in service at its Queen Street store, run by registered nurses. The clinics will offer a one-minute fingerprick test costing £79. The tests have a 99.96 per cent level of accuracy, although a positive result would need to be double-checked by a registered clinic.

This is the first time a high street store has offered such a service, although there has been concern elsewhere about whether the level of support available in a shop-based clinic is sufficient for such a serious diagnosis.