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Drug abuse vulnerability affects everybody

May 25, 2016
Drug abuse vulnerability

Drug abuse vulnerability affects everybody. Understanding drugs risks factors becomes the genesis of a better treatment and recovery process

Drug abuse vulnerability affects everybody: The impact of substance abuse

If there is anything that impacts negatively to the society in discriminatively, it must be drug and alcohol abuse. No one is immune to drug abuse vulnerability. Experts have sounded the warning and the sooner we appreciate this as a fact the better. We are aware that a lot is being done to correct this problem at institutional levels, but according to AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center under the able leadership of doctor Dalal Akoury, the success of these efforts starts and ends with you. Doctor Akoury advices that so long as drugs are still in the street you have a role to play.

On her part as a medical doctor having been in practice for more than two decades now. And in view of the suffering of people across the globe because of drug abuse vulnerability, doctor Akoury made a passionate decision of creating a medical center (AWAREmed health and wellness resource center) objectively to help in the reduction of peoples’ drug abuse vulnerability by facilitating the transformation of each individual’s life. This she does effectively through various approaches including, increasing awareness about health and wellness and by empowering individuals to find their own inner healing power.

When individual’s inner healing power is discovered, doctor Akoury says that their drug abuse vulnerability effects will be easy to handle. Nonetheless it will further interest you to note that in her (Dr. Akoury) practice she focuses primarily on personalized medicine through healthy lifestyle choices. The benefit of this approach is that it deals directly with the primary prevention and underlying causes instead of patching up symptoms. Isn’t this interesting? If you or anyone you know is struggling with any kind of addiction, you can be of help by calling doctor Dalal Akoury today on telephone number 843 213 1480 and she will address your concerns professionally. In the meantime the following is just a sneak preview of how drug abuse vulnerability affects everybody irrespective of age, social background or ones education:

Adolescents

This is a very risky stage in life and those who abuse drugs at this point, often act out, miss the academic mark and many at times drop out of school either because of disciplinary actions or inability to concentrate in school work. Besides that they are also faced with other risks like unwanted pregnancies, violence and infectious diseases.

Adults

For those adults who abuse drugs, they will most certainly have problems thinking clearly, memory lapse and luck of concentration. They often develop poor social behaviors as a result of their drug abuse, and their work performance and personal relationships suffer in the process.

Babies

When babies are exposed to drugs in the womb they are likely to be born premature and underweight. Besides that this exposure can slow the child’s intellectual development and affect behavior later in life. This should explain better why drug abuse vulnerability affects everybody.

Parents

Parents offer guidance to their children. But when they abuse drugs, the consequences will be chaotic, stress-filled homes, as well as child abuse and neglect. This can be very dangerous to any family. Children brought up in such environment are likely to follow on their parents footsteps and may set the stage for drug abuse in the next generation.

Drug abuse vulnerability affects everybody: The impact of substance abuse

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Inadequate nursing personnel for the workload

May 24, 2016
Inadequate nursing personnel

Inadequate nursing personnel for the workload in most health facilities is becoming a global concern

Inadequate nursing personnel for the workload: Short staffing

A resounding number of nurses blame short staffing as the most common reason nurses leave the profession. According to a recent poll on Allnurses.com, more than one third of 1,500 nurses polled say that continuous short staffing drives nurses from the bedside and, ultimately, the profession. Inadequate nursing personnel is hurting the profession and doctor Dalal Akoury from her long service in the medical sector agrees that, ideally one of the reasons for short staffing is management policies that keeps changing from time to time. Like for instance management making a policy of cutting cost. When such policies are made, the first casualty is normally the reduction of the personnel. His has caused a lot of injury to the profession.

Even with the discouragements which is causing inadequate nursing personnel, nurses are still notoriously known to multitask, wearing many hats on a daily basis. The management are actually very much aware of this yet they turn deaf to effects that comes with it. In their desire of cutting cost they may think that it’s not a problem to go without an office or unit secretary or to have a nurse aide on the unit because nurses will pick up the slack. Unfortunately, this unequal distribution of work leads to many unhappy nurses who burn out quickly when doing the job of many people.

Benefits of having adequate nursing working force

Employers can ease the burden on nurses by mandating nurse-patient ratios. According to the available statistics in California for example, since 2004, California has mandated patient ratios of 1:5 for nurses working in hospital settings. Studies have shown the benefit of such staffing ratios. The Aiken study demonstrated that nurses with California-mandated ratios have less burnout and job dissatisfaction, and the nurses reported consistently better quality of care, leading to decreased turnover.

Decreasing patient-nurse ratios has more benefits than disadvantages that could benefit US hospital systems. The Aiken study followed nurses in three states: Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and California—with California being the only state with mandated nurse-to-patient ratios. Over 22,000 RNs were surveyed, and researchers found:

  • Fewer RNs in California miss changes in patient conditions because of their decreased workload than RNs in New Jersey or Pennsylvania
  • If California’s 1:5 ratios on surgical units were matched, New Jersey hospitals would have 14% fewer patient deaths and Pennsylvania hospitals would have 11% fewer deaths
  • In California hospitals with better compliance with the ratios, RNs cite fewer complaints from patients and families
  • Nurses in California are far more likely to stay at the bedside and less likely to report burnout than nurses in New Jersey or Pennsylvania.
  • RNs in California have more time to spend with patients, and more California hospitals have enough nurses to provide quality patient care

Finally from that study of California, it may become necessary that, to avoid or reduce the inadequate nursing personnel, other states should follow California’s lead and mandate nurse-patient staffing ratios. What will it take to get the message across to industry leaders and make a change in how staffing levels are managed across the United States and beyond is that challenge we have and which must be addressed effectively?

Inadequate nursing personnel for the workload: Short staffing

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Nurses handles too many tasking assignments

May 24, 2016
Nurses handles too many tasking assignments

Nurses handles too many tasking assignments gets discouraged along the process

Nurses handles too many tasking assignments: Why must nurses go beyond their scope?

Today looking at what the nurses do as their assignment alongside other work they come across in their line of duty, you won’t be wrong to say that nurses does it all. You may want to congratulate them but wait a minute, the fact that nurses handles too many tasking assignment is not anything to be proud off. This is actually causing many clinics to have mass exodus from the nursing profession simply because nurses feels that despite all these efforts, they are not being rewarded as it should be. For a better understanding of some of the off shore assignments nurses do to warrant this complain, we spoke with doctor Dalal Akoury who is the MD, and also the founder of AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center to shed more light. From her over two decades of experience working with nurses, doctor Akoury acknowledges that nurses handles too many tasking assignments some of which may include the following:

  • Administering medicine to patients
  • Assist patients with dressing, bathing, mobility and other domestic cores
  • Performing all the bedside procedures once the physician is done
  • Coordinating care between all disciplines of the hospital

This is not the end of it for there are so many things that nurses do that causes them to be very much overwhelmed at the end of the shift. Doctor Akoury reiterates that today nurses are responsible for so many aspects of a patient’s care that it can become overwhelming for one person to manage during a single shift.

Nurses handles too many tasking assignments: A typical nurse work schedule

A typical nurse works a 12-hour shift that translates into much more when the nurse is doing the job of multiple people day in and day out. Sometimes a nurse is so involved in completing everything it becomes difficult to take a much needed and deserved break during her shift. This makes for a very long day. Although the typical nurse’s schedule consists of three 12-hour shifts per week, when the days are packed with multiple tasks and responsibilities each and every day, burnout is inevitable. Studies conducted to rate nurse turnover has clearly demonstrated that the more nurses are overloaded with work, the more likely they are to suffer nurse burnout and job dissatisfaction. This is not very healthy for the profession and the sooner it is addressed the better for the nurses, patients and the whole profession.

Finally, nurses performing too many tasks typically boils down to staffing, specifically understaffing, which is also known as short staffing. We are going to dwell much on that in our next blog and I don’t want to miss that. In the meantime, when nursing units are short-staffed, nurses take on a majority of tasks done by others simply because they know how to do many other people’s jobs, but those people cannot do the job of the nurse. Like for instance nurses have always covered for the front office secretary, doing the cores of nurse aide yet these other officers cannot cover for them (nurses) in their own assignments. Something must be done first so that nurses handles too many tasking assignments can be reduced for productivity and quality health delivery by all nurses.

Nurses handles too many tasking assignments: Why must nurses go beyond their scope?

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Nurses Underpayment consequences today

May 24, 2016
Nurses Underpayment consequences

Nurses Underpayment consequences in most clinics today is worrying going by the number of nurses leaving the profession

Nurses Underpayment consequences today: Nurses frustrations

Like it is with all other professions, nursing profession also needs to be rewarded for the effort they are making in health delivery. Many are agreeing that the nursing profession is one where a lot of work is done for very minimal pay. The nursing job in many instances my not be very specific in terms of time. Even though many nurses work for approximately 12 hours a day, this sometimes is over stretched beyond the 12 hours depending on the circumstances. Each time nurses underpayment issues comes up the consequences to that effect is downing tools. This has been a serious problem and has caused major exodus in the profession. Nurse’s job is full of emotional attachment than physical; and because of that many nurses feel that they are underpaid for their contribution in their areas of operations. I will agree that nurses are under paid in most instances despite the magnitude of their work. Talking about the magnitude of the work, it may interest you to note that unlike in other profession where weekends are a resisting days, this is not the same with the nurses. This is the only profession where a lot of sacrifices are made. Take for instance, nurses often forgo their holidays, weekends, and even very important family events to attend to their long and ever changing schedule.

Nurses Underpayment consequences today: Little sacrifices nurses make in the line of duty

The public notion that nurses work schedule is ideal is irrelevant and immaterial. Why do I say so? It may be true that nurses in most states work for a twelve hour shift for three long working days a week and then qualify for long vacations and that this is an advantage to the nurses. I disagree with this school of thought and ask, the bottom line is at what cost do they do that? If anything nurses underpayment consequences has nothing to do with the vacations, it is all about not being rewarded appropriately for the services they render to the communities.

To respond to the concern “But at what cost?”

We have to appreciate that even though it is perceived that nurses are famous for picking up extra shifts on their day off because they feel like they are being paid not nearly enough for the work they do. Nonetheless and according to the most recent Minority Nurse annual survey, the results established that currently and on average, the nurses in the United States of America are being paid a salary of about $67,980 which is considered to be average for any middle class income earner in America. This may be seen to be average but what is not being seen as an accompaniment to this pay is the quantity and quality of work done by men and women in this profession.

Nurses Underpayment consequences today: Nurses frustrations

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Good nurses migrating from the profession

May 24, 2016
Good nurses migrating

Good nurses migrating from the profession due to various frustrations within the profession

Good nurses migrating from the profession

Somebody once told me that being a nurse is a calling and I believed him. My good reason for believing is the kind of work they do. It take great passion and commitment to be a nurse and serve people whole heartedly. This is what I believe but to my surprise, the same person telling me this also mentioned to me that even though being a nurse is a calling, many good nurses are leaving the profession. This made me thinking because I wanted to know why good nurses migrating from the calling? In my search for answers, I spoke to doctor Dalal Akoury MD, President and founder of AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center to shed in more light about the migration. To my surprise doctor Akoury did not object. She actually confirmed that indeed good nurses migration to other professions is true because of various discomforts they are experiencing.

We had share in our previous blog that mismanagement is one of the major reasons for the migration. Besides that the following are other reasons why good nurses migrating from the profession is on the rise:

  • Lack of upward mobility
  • Underpayment
  • Too many tasks
  • Under staffing

Good nurses migrating from the profession: Lack of promotion (Upward mobility)

Many nurses are not happy with their choice career because they have realized that job mobility form the bedside nurse is just not easy without having further studies and acquiring an additional degree. And even with the acquisition of a nursing degree it is still very unlikely because with this degree, you will be over qualified in relation to other professions besides nursing and may not pay the equivalent of a nurse’s current salary. Therefore for one to get a job that pays as much or more than the average RN makes, additional years of school are typically required. This is a sacrifice that some may not be able to make, given that going back to school requires time away from work. Satisfaction in the profession then becomes limited and the consequence of that is migration to other places where this omission can be satisfied.

Finally people across all professions are looking forward to personal growth and development in their place of work. Today this is one area where managers are and policy makers of every institution are encouraging because it often translate to greater productivity in the work force. Nurses are also not left out. They too would want to develop and grow from one level to another. When this is not made possible, good nurses migration from the profession is certainly inevitable. Doctor Akoury advices that to avoid good nurses migration, every institution must invest in the training of their nurses and make them more resourceful both in their individual career and to the communities they serve in.

Good nurses migrating from the profession

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