IVT SCHEDULE  

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BASIC IVT TRAINING SCHEDULE FOR NOVEMBER 2008, DECEMBER 2008 AND JANUARY 2009

NOVEMBER 2008

Nov. 02, 2008 - Nov. 04, 2008 - Unciano Medical, Antipolo City, Rizal
Nov. 06, 2008 - Nov. 08, 2008 - Capiz Emmanuel Hospital, Roxas City
Nov. 12, 2008 - Nov. 14, 2008 - Philippine Heart Center, Diliman, Quezon City
Nov. 12, 2008 - Nov. 14, 2008 - Pangasinan Provincial Hospital, San Carlos City
Nov. 12, 2008 - Nov. 14, 2008 - V.L. Makabali Memorial Hospital, San Fernando, Pampanga
Nov. 13, 2008 - Nov. 15, 2008 - Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center, Qurino Ave., Manila
Nov. 14, 2008 - Nov. 16, 2008 - Bulacan Provincial Hospital, Malolos City, Bulacan
Nov. 18, 2008 - Nov. 20, 2008 - Calalang General Hospital, Valenzuela City
Nov. 19, 2008 - Nov. 21, 2008 - Davao Regional Hospital, Tagum City, Davao del Norte
Nov. 19, 2008 - Nov. 21, 2008 - Davao Doctors Hospital, Davao City
Nov. 26, 2008 - Nov. 28, 2008 - Mt. Carmel Diocesan General Hospital, Lucena City, Quezon
Nov. 26, 2008 - Nov. 28, 2008 - Capitol Medical Center, Quezon City

DECEMBER 2008

Dec. 01, 2008 - Dec. 03, 2008 - Martinez Memorial Hospital, Caloocan City
Dec. 02, 2008 - Dec. 04, 2008 - Lung Center of the Philippines, Quezon City
Dec. 12, 2008 - Dec. 14, 2008 - Bulacan Provincial Hospital, Malolos City, Bulacan

JANUARY 2009

Jan. 08-09; 11, 2009 - Bulacan Provincial Hospital, Malolos City, Bulacan
Jan. 15-16; 18, 2009 - Bulacan Provincial Hospital, Malolos City, Bulacan
Jan. 22-23; 25, 2009 - Bulacan Provincial Hospital, Malolos City, Bulacan
Jan. 29-30; Feb. 1, 2009 - Bulacan Provincial Hospital, Malolos City, Bulacan

  1. Schedules are subject to change without prior notice. ANSAP only accredits hospitals offering basic IVT training and updates.
  2. Contact the respective hospitals for further details regarding IVT training registration.
  3. Please check your local hospitals for any ANSAP-accredited basic IVT training programs, some are not listed in the schedules.
  4. Basic IVT Training Fees range from Php 1,500 to P2,500 depending on the hospital’s discretion.

For more information please visit: http://ivthub.blogspot.com

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Test Strategies  

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  1. What’s the answer ( ANSWER FIRST)
  2. What’s the question (REPHRASING)

· Numbers ( age, lab values, percentage)

· Signs & Symptoms

· Acute or Chronic

  1. ELIMINATION

· True or False

· Clustering (GROUPING)

o A. hypertension (BP)

o B. tachycardia (HR)

o C. hypotension (BP)

o D. bradycardia (HR)

· Odd Man Out/In (TOO OBVIOUS)

· Comma-Comma-And, “Rule”

o ___, ___, & ___ (ELIMINATE VERTICALLY)

  1. ALL OF THE ABOVE

· Eliminate AOTA if there is an: OPPOSITE TERM

o A. tachycardia, bradycardia & tachypnea

o B. hypertension, hypotension & pyrexia

  1. KEYWORDS

· Eliminate choices with the ff words:

o Always,

o Never,

o Necessarily,

o Any,

o Only,

o Must,

o Completely,

o Totally

  1. TRAPS

· Be aware of the ff words that are often missed:

o Inappropriate

o Not applicable

o Ineffective

o Further teaching

CRITICAL THINKING

· Validate & Organize data

· Look for patterns & relationship

· Transfer knowledge

· Evaluate

  1. Identify the topic of the question

o NO: Read the choices and restate the problem

o YES: Proceed to 2

  1. The Nursing Process

o Assessment & Implementation = Read the stem carefully

o All Assessment & Implementation = Proceed to 3

  1. Does Maslow fit?

o YES: Physical vs. Psychosocial

ü PHYSICAL FIRST!

ü If all Physical, ABC!

o NO: Focus on the TOPIC/ PROBLEM


PSYCHIATRIC QUESTIONS

WRONG

· False assurance

· Personal opinion/ advice

· Should not insist

· Blocking

· Why?

CORRECT

· Listening to client’s concern

· Assessing & acknowledging client’s response

· Encourage to talk more about the client’s feelings

· Focus on the concern of the client

· Use open ended questions

IMPORTANT TERMS

· Laenec’s disease- liver cirrhosis 2nd to alcoholism

· Homman’s sign- distention in the calf that is used to determine Deep Vein Thrombosis

· Hegar’s sign- softening of the Uterus

· Goodel’s sign- softening of the Cervix

· Chadwick’s sign- bluish discoloration of the Vagina

· Korsakoff- complication of Chronic Alcoholism manifested by Confabulation

· Confabulation- making up stories

· Illusion- with stimulus ( Desert- water)

· Hallucination- without stimulus ( Auditory)

· Delusion- false belief


SIGNS & SYMPTOMS

· Tachycardia (Cardiac Rate) = Mild Dehydration

· Hyperthermia (Temperature) = Moderate to Severe Dehydration

· ↓ K+ = Severe Vomiting

· ↑ Glucose = Diarrhea

· ↓ Cal+ = Trosseau’s Sign

· Hyperventilation = DM Ketoacidosis

· N pH = 7. 35 – 7. 45

· N pCO2 = 35 – 45 / partial pressure of Carbon Dioxide

· N pO2 = 95 – 100 / partial pressure of Oxygen

· N HCO3 = 22 – 26 / Bicarbonate

· Metabolic (HCO3)

o Acidosis (↓pH, ↓ HCO3)

o Alkalosis (↑ pH, ↑ HCO3)

· Respiratory (pCO2)

o Acidosis (↑ pH, ↓ pCO2)

o Alkalosis (↓ pH, ↑ pCO2)

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US demand for Filipino nurses declining – educator  

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Some 40 percent of Filipino nurses in the United States have undesirable work habits, which could likely be the cause for the slump in the demand for Pinoy nurses, an educator said Friday.

An article in Sun-Star Cebu quoted Henry Seno, president of the American Dream Review Institute Inc. (Amdream) as saying that the decline in the demand for Filipino nurses abroad is caused more by a change in work attitude of the latest batch of nursing professionals rather than the June 2006 nursing board exam cheating controversy.

Amdream's website said it is an affiliate of a Los Angeles-based company with operations in the Philippines that serves as a springboard for Asian operations. It was conceptualized for the purpose of assisting nurses to pass the different US immigration requirements. The Philippines is a haven for medical professionals. However, the dilemma is, only a handful passes the test required for migration to the US.

“Nurses in the Philippines now are no longer of the same quality as the nurses five to 10 years back," Seno said.

He said 40 percent of Filipino nurses in the United States, despite receiving an average salary of $8,000 to $10,000 a month, “do not show up for work (and) literally do not report to the hospitals, especially those with immigrant status (while) those who report act as if they are not there because they’re busy doing other things."

Seno also hits the growing number of nursing schools in the country, churning out nursing graduates who are lacking in hands-on experience and a good grasp of educational background.

“There are more nursing schools now and so many nursing graduates. These schools have become mere diploma mills," Seno said.

This negative scenario, he said, has caused hospitals and clinics in the United States to recruit more nurses from India, Korea and China compared to those they hire from Philippines as these institutions have become apprehensive in their choice of nursing imports.

Seno also blames local recruitment agencies for taking advantage of the need for nurses in the US by “duping" hospitals and health institutions to hire Pinoy nurses who are not qualified for nursing jobs. - Luis Gorgonio, GMANews.TV

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Ten Commandments to Avoid Illegal Recruitment  

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1. Do not apply at recruitment agencies not licensed by
POEA.
 
2. Do not deal with licensed agencies without job orders.
 
3. Do not deal with any person who is not an authorized
representative of a licensed agency.
 
4. Do not transact business outside the registered
address of the agency. If recruitment is conducted in
the province, check if the agency has a provincial
recruitment authority.
 
5. Do not pay more that the equivalent of one month salary
as placement fee, exclusive of documentation and
processing costs. For some countries in Europe, the
placement fee is paid by the employer, not the worker.
 
6. Do not pay any placement fee unless you have a valid
employment contract and an official receipt.
 
7. Do not be enticed by ads or brochures requiring you to
reply to a Post Office (P.O.) Box, and to enclose
payment for processing of papers.
 
8. Do not deal with agents of training centers and travel
agencies who promise overseas employment.
 
9. Do not accept a tourist visa for overseas employment.
 
10. Do not deal with fixers or entrust your money and
documents to them.

Author: PNA Admin

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Notice  

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INTRODUCTION TO ACLS –

Philippine Nurses Association Continuing Professional Education

Philippine Nurses Association
Continuing Professional Education
 
Schedule of
 
“Introduction to ACLS”
 
 
AUGUST 11-14, 2008
SEPTEMBER 8-11, 2008
NOVEMBER 10-13, 2008
 
 
Registration Fee for every seminar: P 4,000.00
 
Time: 8:00am to 5:00pm
Venue: PNA Auditorium P.N.A. Office,
1663 F. T. Benitez St., Malate, Manila
 
Note:  Pre- registration is required and will stop once the
quota is reached.
Registration fees will be forfeited if pre-registered
participants will not be able to attend the paid
schedule.
 
For further inquiries and confirmation, please contact
Mr. Nicole at tel. no.4004430. 5361888, 5210937.

Source: 

Philippine Nurses Association

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JPEPA  

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 PHILIPPINE  NURSES  ASSOCIATION  POSITION
 STATEMENT ON THE  JPEPA

The Filipino nurses constitute the biggest foreign-educated
nurses in the United States.  There is also a growing
number of nurses in Europe and Middle East.  They are
dubbed to be the best nurse in the world.  Global respect
for the quality of caring and the competencies of the
Filipino nurses have undoubtedly evolved from the Filipino
nurses produced by the Philippine Nursing Education,
regulated by the Philippine Board of Nursing, and provided
experience and training by the Philippine Nursing Practice.
The Philippine government shall jointly maintains the pride,
dignity and professionalism of Filipino nurses. 

The Filipino nurses politely decline the offer of Japan as it
is currently embodied in the JPEPA. Nurses strongly feel
that the bilateral agreement shortchanges the professional
qualifications of Filipino nurses and exposes to potential
abuse and discrimination those who may be unwittingly
enticed to seek Japanese employment under its bilateral
channel.


EVEN JAPANESE NURSES ARE AWARE THAT REFORMS
ARE NEEDED IN THE LOCAL JAPANESE NURSES
CONDITION!
      
Filipino Nurses are calling for the rejection of the JPEPA
with keen regard and utmost consideration to the official
position of the Japanese Nursing Association (JNA) that
reforms and improvement in the working conditions
salaries and benefits of local Japanese nurses should
first be instituted before the entry of Filipino nurses.  They
should institute to improve the working conditions of local
Japanese nurses first before they can ensure that Filipino
nurses will have favorable working conditions in Japan.


DISCRIMINATION:

Under the bilateral agreement, the odds are unfairly
stacked against us. It could be said that with the JPEPA
Japan slightly opened the gate to the yard, but double-
bolted the door to the house.

Under the present inequitable terms of the JPEPA, a
qualified Filipino nurse will not be accorded the equal
status of a full-fledged Japanese nurse practicing in
Japan.

Indonesian Nurses, who studied nursing in three years
only without licensure examinations and two years
experience, are currently accorded better placement and
career opportunities by Japan than Filipino nurses who
had four years of nursing education, passed the licensure
examination and had 3 years working experience. 


NOT NURSING PRACTICE BUT TRAINING

Even with a bachelor’s degree earned from four years of
higher education in the Philippines, proof of competence
by virtue of having passed the Philippine Licensure
Examination and three solid years of work experience, the
Filipino nurse will go to Japan not to fully practice the
nursing profession but to become a trainee. Under the
JPEPA, the Filipino nurse must train under the supervision
of a Japanese nurse for up to three years. If unable to
pass the nursing licensure examination in Japanese, the
Filipino nurse would have to be deported.

Not salaried but given allowance…
Neither employees nor workers…
Hence, not protected!

As trainees who have not yet passed the Japanese
Licensure Examination, the Filipino nurses risk receiving
mere trainee allowance (not salary for a professional
practice of nursing). They also risk having virtually zero
employment right in Japan as they are considered neither
employees nor workers under Japan’s Immigration Control
Act. Specific provisions committing Japan to international
core labor standards and the protection of the rights of
migrant health workers are also absent in the agreement.

Also, Japan’s failure to ratify ILO Convention no. 111,
otherwise known as the Discrimination (Employment and
Occupation) Convention, is an indication that the Japanese
government is not keen on addressing the persistent
problem of discrimination on the basis of race, gender,
language and social status in Japan.


BETTER OPPORTUNITIES IN OTHER COUNTRIES

Thus exposed to generally unfavorable working
conditions in Japan, the Filipino nurse would be spending
three years of his or her life hoping for real work when he
or she could have a rewarding professional career in
other countries abroad with better remuneration than
what Japan currently offers even to  its local Japanese
nurses.

Unrealistic Demand for Filipinos to Speak Nihonggo, a
suspicious agenda of cheap labor

Filipino nurses acknowledge that communication skills
form an integral part of health care service delivery and
that a working facility with the Japanese language is a
valid requirement for nursing practice in Japan. But the
language skills required by the JPEPA are so high as to
constitute an almost impregnable barrier to our entry.
Filipino nurses, given the unnecessarily stringent
requirements, will most likely end up providing cheap labor
and quality nursing care as nursing trainees in Japanese
health care facilities.


PHILIPPINE SITUATION NOT WORST THAN JAPAN
SITUATION

If only Filipino nurses are aware of the plight of the
Japanese nurses, they will realize that we have a similar
situation here in the Philippines.  Even with the
promulgation of RA 7305 or the Magna Carta of Public 
Health Workers, the greater benefits and increased
remuneration for nurses mandated by that law are ignored
by the Philippine government. This is a major factor to the
many reasons why Filipino nurses decide to look for
foreign employment. As the Philippine situation is not ideal
for Filipino nurses, the JPEPA offers a blurred opportunity
that discriminates the Filipino nurses, and in effect attract
Filipino nurses to serve Japanese (instead of Filipinos) for
a future that after all does not belong to them.  Nurses
should rather see the value of staying in the Philippines to
serve the Filipinos (and given professional accord and
protection by the government) that being “exported,”
discriminated and without clear career path and security.


A NURSE IS NOT A COMMODITY!

The economic values of JPEPA should
exclude the nurses for the issue is beyond just the influx
of economic variables but the dignity of professionals that
Philippines have been proud of in the global market.  A
Filipino professional nurse, reduced to a trainee, paid
allowance, and given neither protection nor assurance of
tenure and career path in Japan, may indeed bring in
economic productivity but shall certainly hurt the self-
esteem and the rightful pride of being a professional nurse
in particular and of being Filipino in general.

“Beggars can’t be choosers.”  True!  But Filipino nurses
are not begging for job in Japan for the rest of the world
has been wanting the service of Filipino nurses.    




DR. LEAH PRIMITIVA G. SAMACO-PAQUIZ
National President
Philippine Nurses Association (PNA)

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I cannot pray….  

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I cannot pray…


I cannot pray “Our”, if my faith has no room for others and their need.

I cannot pray “Father,” or “Creator,” If I do not demonstrate this relationship to God in my daily living.

I cannot pray “Who art in Heaven,” if all my interests and pursuits are in earthly or material things.

I cannot pray “Hallowed be Thy Name,” if I am not striving for God’s help to be holy.

I cannot pray “Thy Kingdom come,” if I am unwilling to accept God’s rule in my life.

I cannot pray “On earth as it is in Heaven,” unless I am ready to give myself to God’s service here and now.

I cannot pray “Give us this day, our daily bread,” without expending honest effort for it or if I withhold from my neighbor the bread I receive.

I cannot pray “Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us,” if I continue to harbor grudge against anyone.

I cannot pray “Lead us not into temptation,” if I deliberately choose to remain in a situation where I am likely to be tempted.

I cannot pray “deliver us from the Evil One,” if I am not prepared to fight with my life and my prayer.

I cannot pray “Thine is the kingdom,’ if I am unwilling to obey the King.

I cannot pray “Thine is the power and the glory,” if I am seeking power for myself and my own glory first.

I cannot pray “forever and ever” if I am too anxious about each day’s affairs.

I cannot pray “Amen,’ unless I honestly say “Not MY will, but THY will be done”, so let it be.


“But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard fr their much speaking. Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your heavenly father/Creator knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask HIM.” (Matthew 6: 7-8).

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