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.

Workplace Violence: Raising the issue and spotting the red flags

This article deals with ways to prevent workplace violence from happening in your facility and it also states what should be done if it does happen in your facility. It is very important to have in documentation what will happen to an employee who decided to bring violence into the facility. It also states that the boss should have a plan in order for an employee who spouse or outside person who brings violence into the facility. It is very important to plan for these events ahead of time instead of brushing them off as if it cannot happen within your facilty. I have learned through reading and watching the news that workplace violence can happen anywhere because you never know what another person is thinking nor what that person is capable of doing so you should always have a plan in action for the "what if's." This article states that if you have people within your facility that appears to stay bothered or fearful then you should document that person as being a potention threat to the facility. Now I am unsure of how that will work because I know some people may just be scared until they become use to the environment; however, on the other hand I do believe it is a good idea to document anybody that you think is a potential hazard to the company just in case they are and something bad does happen. I think precaution before is better then waiting till after it has occurred.

http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2006/02/06/smallb1.html

Child Abuse Identification Toolkit for Professionals

This week for my quality tool I decided to research sexual abuse in children. I decided on this topic because alot of children are affected by this type of abuse and alot of adults can't identify the symptoms. Mothers need to be careful with whom they leave their children with and this includes the child's father because facts prove that most perpetrator is often a male family member, family friend, or neighbor who has access to the child or has authority over the child. A prime example is today's breaking news-a father molested and allowed two of his friends to rape his 3 year old daughter. I did not know that lices were a good indicator for sexual abuse. Facts state that lice in eyelashes prompt an ivestigation of sexual abuse as only pubic lice infest the eyelashes. Mothers need to become more aware of their children behaviors around certain people and educate their child on sexual abuse. This article provides many tips on how to identify and prevent your child from being a statistic.

http://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/assets/0/78/1067/1395/1577/1611/0823d7bd-f10e-41f3-8fe3-047bda22faf1.pdf

Charlene's Blog Review

I agree with Charlene's view on her article, Treating Tobacco Users. I think that phsyician should try to establish a program for their patients who have serious health issues due to tobacco usage because they can obvious see that the patient cant do it on their own. I also believe that they should provide and educational class for the family because alot of people do not know that second hand smoke is worse then first hand smoke.

HPV Vaccine Information for Clinicians

I chose this quality tool because I wanted to be educated on the n ew vaccine that's out for female called Gardasil. 12,000 women are diagnosed yearly with some type of cervical cancer and nearly 4,000 dies out of that population. I learned that the vaccine works best in females before they become sexually active; therefore, its recommend for girls age 9-15 to get the shots early in life. The catch up vaccine is recommend for females who are already sexually active. Its said to be protect again four types of hpv 16, 18, (cervical cancer) and 6, 11 (genital warts). Its said that a person can still receive the vaccines even if they have one or had on type of hpv because the vaccine will protect against the other types. I found it interesting to know that males are only affectd by 1% and that they are currently developing a vaccine for males. I also learned that cervical cancer claims the most lives in American women in the U.S. It was also shock to know that this is a drug that safe for pregnant women even though its not recommend that pregnant women get the vaccines. I think that this is something very important that all women should talk to their OB/GYN about. This vaccine can be free in females 18 and younger that has some type of medical coverage, even if the female dont have coverage through vaccines for children.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HPV Vaccine Information for Clinicians
http://www.cdc.gov/std/hpv/STDFact-HPV-Vaccine-hcp.htm

Thyroid Disease: 10 Thyroid Mistakes Your Doctor Maybe Making

I chose this article becausae it discussed alot of topics that we have covered in our previous chapters. I found it very interesting to know that most doctors that don't know how to treat a patient with a certain disease will tell them a lie. For example, number 8 states that a pateint should never let a physician tell them that they only prescribe a certain type of drug. If you have that type of doctor then its best you change physician because that physicisn isn't educated enough about your condition. This article also deals with physicians not educating the patient enough on how to take a prescribtion which results in a possible medical error and because of that the patient can suffer from a adverse drug reaction. This article also touches on how certain doctors thing they know what's wrong with the patient instead of hearing the patient side and I find that very interesting becauset he whole point is for the doctor to listen to the patient and together come up with a treatment plan. Another interesting fact is that scares me is how doctors don't perform all the test they need on a patient symptoms to come up with a diagnosis. That scary because their are people who sick and know they are sick and being mistreated due to misdiagnosis because physician arrogrance.

About.com, Thyroid Disease, 10 Thyroid Mistakes Your Doctor May Be Making,
http://thyroid.about.com/cs/doctors/a/10mistakes.htm?p=1