Posted in Nursing on August 26, 2009

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1. Communication Skills-as a nurse, it is an advantage to have a good communication skill.

To have a good communication skill you must have to listen carefully.

Let the patient know that you where their to listen what he/she is saying. Be careful on your body languange

your body language shows a lot in determining whether you’re interested in the conversation or not.

2. Emotional Stability means State of an individual that enables him or her to have appropriate feelings about common experiences and act in a rational manner.

3. Empathy-To show empathy is to identify with another’s feelings. It is to emotionally put yourself in the place of another. The ability to empathize is directly dependent on your ability to feel your own feelings and identify them. Nurse lack with empathy lower the patience confidence. Nurse without empathy result to patience to suffer from fear, they got confuse and depressed and also the motivation to comply with treatment is decreased.

4. Flexibility- not many jobs come as flexible as nursing. A nurse must be flexible in terms of taking care of patients “you must like what you don’t like”, in that the essence of nursing. Nurse is flexible, if a nurse is not a chooser.

5. Good Attention to Detail-achieves thoroughness and accuracy when accomplishing a task through concern for all areas involved.

6. Interpersonal Skills-Simply put interpersonal skills are the skills we use to interact or care with others. Interpersonal skills are sometimes also referred to as communication skills, grouping skills and/or soft skills. How we care with others crapper greatly impact our professional and personal lives, improving these skills builds confidence and enhances our relationships with others.

8. Problem Solving Skills-The initial steps in assessing problem-solving are obvious in that we requirement to identify what skills are to be assessed and what determine module be served by the assessment. Once those objectives are identified, it becomes such easier to approach the task of assessing the problem-solving skills of our students.

Posted in Nursing on August 13, 2009

MANILA, Philippines—Congress should physique up the Nurses Assigned in Rural Service (NARS) Project toward mobilizing a larger number of unemployed nurses, this time as village midwives, a lawmaker from Mindanao said.


It would make a aggregation of sense to expand the NARS, and mayhap tap an additional 10,000 nurses for deployment as midwives in municipalities with the highest motherlike and infant mortality rates,” Cotabato Representative Emmylou Taliño-Mendoza said in a statement sent to media outfits.


This way, we will save thousands of mothers and infants who risk death every assemblage due to maternity and birth-related complications,” Taliño-Mendoza said.


She said demand of access to skilled delivery attendants has been digit of the factors contributing to the unacceptably high number of mothers and infants existence lost during maternity and childbirth.


In the countryside and even in urban slums, destitute mothers still give birth at home, often without trained attendants, because they cannot afford to go to maternity clinics or hospitals,” she lamented.


Nurses who serve as midwives low the NARS could gain specialized training that would later help them secure more lucrative jobs here and overseas, Taliño-Mendoza said.


In America, for instance, there is growing demand for certified nurse-midwives. They are considered advanced practitioners there, with specialized education, training, and experience in both nursing and midwifery,” she added.


Taliño-Mendoza is digit of the backers of the proposed Reproductive Health, Responsible Parenthood, and Population Development Act.


The bill seeks to raise public awareness of reproductive health, advance responsible parenthood, and improve access to safe and modern kinsfolk planning methods in order to turn unwanted pregnancies and lessen the risk of both motherlike and infant mortality.


Government health surveys have shown that 162 mothers die out of every 10,000 births, and that 14 percent of all deaths among Filipino women may be attributed to maternity or to childbirth-related causes.


Three out of every quaternary motherlike deaths happen to very young women 15 to 19 years old, according to government studies.