Archive for April, 2011
When one thinks of the sort of career opportunities that are available in hospitals or in other healthcare organisations such as residential homes and GP surgeries, it’s natural that medical roles such as those undertaken by a nurse or a doctor should spring to mind. In fact, we all know that these places wouldn’t be providing much of a service without them!
However, in order for hospitals and the like to run a smooth and efficient service, there is always a large team on non-clinical staff members ‘behind the scenes’ as it were. These people include caterers, cleaners, ambulance drivers, warehouse operatives and gardeners and without these people healthcare organisations would not be able to function properly. You only have to think about it for a few minutes to realise that if these job roles didn’t exist, hospitals wouldn’t be able to run at all. Who would provide clean laundry? Who would provide patients with their meals? Who would ensure quick and safe delivery of vital medical supplies?
Broadly speaking, non-clinical members of staff carry out what could be termed as ‘industrial jobs’ and although these roles exist outside the healthcare sector, they are also very important within it. Such roles include but are not limited to:
Cooks and Catering Assistants Laundry Assistants and Porters Ambulance and Delivery Drivers NHS Warehouse Operatives Labourers and Maintenance Assistants
Many people choose to put their skills to use in a hospital setting because they realise that they are genuinely contributing to the well being of patients and their relatives. We weren’t all born with the ability to become doctors or nurses but without the valuable input made by non-clinical members of staff, we would all notice very quickly that hospitals cannot function without these people.
The 12th Annual ABC Super Soap Weekend will be a star studded event as celebrities from favorite soaps such as All My Children, One Life to Live and General Hospital will be gracing the event. More than 30 celebrities from ABC Daytime and SOAPnet will be at the two-day event next month. The stars of SOAPnet’s original primetime drama, General Hospital: Night Shift will also be in attendance, for the first time.
The 12th Annual ABC Super Soap Weekend is set to take place from November 10 to 11 at the Disney-MGM Studios at the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista in Florida. The event will give fans multiple opportunities to interact with their favorite soap stars from various soaps, including the new General Hospital primetime spin-off.
Activities for the event include autograph signing sessions, celebrity motorcades, talk shows, interviews, and one of a kind show memorabilia sale.
General Hospital celebrities who have confirmed their appearances on the event are are Jason Thompson (Patrick), Bradford Anderson (Spinelli), Julie Berman (Lulu), Tyler Christopher (Nikolas), Josh Duhon (Logan), Sonya Eddy (Epiphany), Rebecca Herbst (Elizabeth), Kimberly McCullough (Robin), Kelly Monaco (Sam) and Laura Wright (Carly).
The Night Shift attendees also include Nazanin Boniadi (Leyla), Dominic Rains and Kent King (Lainey). General Hospital: Night Shift is the highest rated in SOAPnet’s entire history.
Other participants include Sherri Shepherd of The View, and soap veteran Susan Lucci.
Co-presented by Colgate Total toothpaste, the ABC Super Soap Weekend will include Colgate Total Street Jam live musical performances from the soap stars. Attendees will also be given free admission into the theme park at Disney-MGM Studios.
For tickets and reservations for the 12th ABC Super Soap Weekend, fans may call the Super Soap Hotline recording at (407) 397-6808 or visit the ABC Daytime website at ABC.com for more details.
For more resources about Daytime and Primetime General Hospital Stars to Attend ABC Super Soap Weekend or for the full story of General Hospital please review this link http://www.buddytv.com
Privacy-conscious patients will be so happy to know that a move has spearheaded wherein a new hospital gown has been planned to be redesigned. The Design Council, a non-departmental organization that was created in 1944, was the one that made these changes possible together with the Department of Health of the nursingtimes.net. The project was called the Design for Patient Dignity Programme which aims at pursuing patients’ privacy while on hospital robes.
“We want to ensure that patients’ experience of the NHS goes from good to great and the exciting designs unveiled today show patients what they can expect from the NHS of the future,” a minister of the Design Council says.
During normal days, we can always dress in whatever garb we want to wear as long as it is comfortable to carry. In connection with our activities, we can easily swap clothes ad appropriate them so we can be assured that our body needs the right covering to set us out of public scrutiny and worst folly. But often times, these rights to privacy are often neglected and just your right to be cured is given enough attention whenever we get into the hospital and been confined. Patients are only required to use the conventional hospital gowns that cover only the front. Though this has been an accepted practice in the medical world, several religious groups and orientations are somehow dismisses this idea. For them, they wanted to be treated and be cured without jeopardizing their right to privacy by wearing those old patient medical scrubs.
For when patients’ dignity is by far an important consideration, making sure that they are treated in a very respectful manner is their first way of coping up with their illness. And all these begin with what they wear in the hospital.
The basic modifications on the hospital gown are primarily on aesthetics. The back portion that are typically open and exposed in old gowns are being updated and covered. Instead the opening of the scrubs at the back, they redesigned it so the new gowns open at the sides and fastened by button clips. Because of the, IV lines and other medical equipment cables can be easily attached to the patient without exposing the skin thereby adding to the self-respect of the patient. It has an internal waist cord to fit comfortable all body sizes. Another feature of the redesigned hospital gown is its reversible textile which allows nurses to fully maximize the gown for other equipment attachments. This gown is also available in round and v-neck designs. These designs are said to respect the patients’ and their families’ ethical orientations and religious preferences as this promote coverage of the exposed body parts.
Another design that the team has in mind is the ICU patient medical scrub. And because an ICU patients needed more rooms and passages of IV lines, equipment cables, and other devices, the ICU gown should be a little more different that the usual hospital gowns. The ICU gowns are equipped with internal and external pockets that are large enough to hold personal belongings or medical paraphernalia like that of a urine catheter bag. Instead of zippers or buttons, this gown has perforated lines in distinct parts for easy access to patient’s body in case of emergency. It also has a belt tie that serves as the primary fastener of the gown which is made of a material that can easily be replaced. This gown, like the one above, comes in a universal size.