Rajni's Blog Review

I read Rajni's blog in regards to TB. I am also shock to discover that the USA does not have a preventative solution as does the third world countries. It is very disturbing to know that the USA is so far behind other countries. I also found it educational to know that you can get TB from flying on an airplance, but it does make sense; considering all the amount of people that be on one flight. TB is an interesting disease within itself because its communicable and their is really no way to protect yourself unless you live your live walking around with a full body germ suit on that can prevent you from breathing everybody air and to stop skin contact.

Working With Your Child's School

The quality tool that I picked for this week is related to Caring for Children with ADHD: A Resource Toolkit for Clinicians. I founded it interesting to know that most parents discover thier child is ADHD by a teacher from school. I learned that the correct method as to diagnosis a child with ADHD is to talk to both the parent and the teacher while examining the child's behavior. I learned some interesting tips that would help your child cope better with ADHD and perfoming well in school. The most important one to me was to praise your child for good work; however, I believe parents should do that regardless if their child has ADHD or not. I have learned that jusy by praising your child for doing good that will eliminate them doing bad in most cases.


Caring for Children with ADHD: A Resource Toolkit for Clinicians
http://www.nichq.org/NICHQ/Topics/ChronicConditions/ADHD/Tools/ADHD.htm

Continuous Quality Improvement

My topic for this week is related to the continuous quality improvement. I chose this topic because it was very educational to me. I think that this acronym that the company has came up with is very beneficial and educational. FOCUS which means

Find a process to improve

Organize to improve a process

Clarify what is known

Understand variation

Select a process improvement

I thought that this may help some students that may be having difficulities grasping the CQI concept.

How to Establish a Palliative Care Program

http://64.85.16.230/educate/content/development/cqi.html

Ramona's Blog Review

I agreed with Ramona in regards to her views on nosocomial infections.

How to Spot A Failing Project

After hearing about how many project fails, I decided to do a little research on the matter. I found it interesting that only 1/3 of all projects are successful. I also found out that if your project budget is under 750,000 your success rate is higher; however, if your project budget is over millions of dollars your failure rate is higher. This article talk about ways that will help you identify when a project is failing. Two important factors to me was finding out that temembers working overtime means that thier is a problem. Because no project should have overtime and the other interesting indicator was weight loss. If you notice members on your team have been losing weight, then you can bet its because of their long night working while eating junk food and drinking caffeine. I was very shock to find out how many ways an unsuccessful project can affect the human body. If you are interested in finding out more ways to identify a project that heading for failure than you should read this article.

http:..www.cio.com/article/print/124309

Women's Health USA 2007: Medication Use

I chose medication usage during women throughout their lifetime for my quality tool. I found it very interesting to know that most women suffer from respiratory problems and are prescribed medication during their young years and decrease with age. I owuld think that the older you get the more respirator problems you would have. I was also very shock to learn that women between ages 45-64 years suffer from antidepression and are prescribed the most medication during this time period. In regards to children under 15 years of age, they are prescribed the most drugs for respirator problems. However, in adults in general most drugs are prescribed to patients who suffer from cardiovascular/renal sympotms and just pain relief drugs in general.

Http://mchb.hrsa.gov/whusa_07/healthservutiliz/0409mu.htm

Allison's Blog Review

I enjoyed Allison's article because I failed victim to adverse drug effect. My doctor prescribed me the wrong drug and as a result I ended up with damage done to my stomach. I think that doctors should take more then "5-10 minutes" to decide on whether that medicine will be good for the patient. I know in my case the doctor didn't listen to anything that I had to say and he prescribed my medicine based on what he thought was best and not on what was in my record and what I was saying. I think there should be more safety precautions when it comes to drugs.