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Thursday, June 28, 2012

PNLE Important Reminders




Examination Day Preparations


What to Bring on Examination Day
  • Notice of Admission
  • Application Stub
  • PRC Official Receipt
  • Two or more pencils (No. 2)
  • Ballpens with BLACK INK ONLY
  • One (1) piece Metered-Stamp Window Envelope
  • One (1) piece Long Brown Envelope
  • One (1) piece Long Transparent (non -colored) Plastic Envelope (to keep above items)


What to Wear on Examination Day
  • MALE - school uniform/white polo shirt or T-shirt (tucked-in)
  • FEMALE – school uniform/white blouse or T-shirt


General Instructions To Examinees

  • Report to the Test Center before 6:30am on the first day of examination to verify your room and seat number.
  • Late examinees will not be admitted.
  • Attend to your personal needs before the start of examination in every subject. No examinee will be allowed to go out of the examination room while the examination is in progress.
  • Always put your answer sheet on top of the armchair while taking the examination.
  • Stop answering the test questions at the end of the time alloted for the subject. Arrange your test papers as follows:
  1. Notice of Admission;
  2. Answer Sheet; and
  3. Test Questionnaire
  • Do not leave the room until
  1. your answer sheet and test question set are received by the room watchers,
  2. you have signed, indicated the time and set (A or B) on the Examinees Record of Attendance, and
  3. the lower portion of your Notice of Admission (Certification on the Receipt of Test Papers) is signed by the Room Watchers and returned to you.

Handling of Examinee Identification Sheet/Answer Sheets

  • Check if the Serial Number of Examinee Identification Sheet/Answer Sheets are the same for all the sheets. If there is any discrepancy, return the set to your Room Watchers for replacement. The Serial Number is NOT the examination number. It has nothing to do with your examination.
  • Check if there are defects or unnecessary marks on your Examinee Identification Sheet/Answer Sheets.
  • Check if the number of Answer Sheets corresponds to the number of examination subjects.
  • Do not fold or mutilate, take extra care and keep clean your Examinee Identification Sheet/Answer Sheets.
  • Before detaching an answer sheet, check if the brown envelope is yours and the set inside belongs to you.

How to Mark Your Examinee Identification Sheet/Answer Sheets

  • Use standard No. 2 pencil only
  • Do not use too much pressure
  • Mark like this not like these 
  • Make the mark dark and straight
  • Strictly no erasures allowed


How to Accomplish Examinee Identification Sheet





Brown Envelope

  • Print your name on the top left corner and your seat number on the top right corner.




Handling of Test Question Sets

  • Indicate your seat number at the right top corner of page 1
  • Check if the number of pages of Test Question Set is complete and no misprint. If there is any problem, return the set to your Room Watchers for replacement.
  • Mark A or B on the answer sheet to indicate the set of Test Question assigned to you.
  • You can use your Test Question Set as your Scratch .
  • Keep the Test Question Set stapled until the end of examination.


Prohibited Acts Inside the Examination Room

  • Accepting or receiving anything, including food from any person while the examination is in progress.
  • Giving money, food, or any favor and other consideration to the Room Watchers and other examination personnel.
  • Loitering, talking, or discussing your answers inside the room or along the corridor while the examination is in progress.
  • Putting any of the following markings on your answer sheets: name, seat number, unnecessary words or phrases, strokes, dots or any other marks not called for in the test questions. 

Penalties
  • Placing of name in the space provided for the subject of the examination shall be, aside from the cancellation of the examination papers, suspension from taking the examination for one (1) year;
  • Multiple markings shall be cancellation of the examiness examination and suspension from taking the examination for two (2) years.
  • Taking out the examination room test questions used or pages thereof, copying, and/or divulging or making known the nature or content of any examination question or answer to any individual or entity.
  • Copying or referring to any solution, answer or work of another examinee or allowing anyone to copy or refer to your work, helping or asking help from any person or communication with anyone by means of words, signs, gestures, codes and other similar acts which enable you to exchange, impart or acquire relevant information.
  • Bringing inside the examination rooms the following: books, notes, review materials and other printed materials containing principles or excerpts thereof, coded data/information/ formula which are relevant to or connected with the examination subject, PROGRAMMABLE CALCULATORS, CELLULAR PHONES, beeper, portable personal computers or other similar gadgets/devices. The act shall be considered cheating and/or act of dishonesty and shall be a ground for the cancellation of your examinations (PRC Resolution No. 463 dated November 27, 1996).
  • Maintain discipline at all times, any misconduct or irregularity on your part or any violation of the examination rules and regulations and instructions will be sufficient cause for the cancellation of your examination papers and your debarment from taking any future licensure examination.
  • Do not bring bags of any kind in the examination room. Keep allowed items and valuables inside your plastic envelope. PRC will not be answerable for lost items.

Source: http://www.prc.gov.ph/licensure/?id=24

ANSAP Basic IVT Program




RA No. 9173, otherwise known as “Philippines Nursing Act of 2002”, states that the administration of parenteral injection is included in the scope of nursing practice.

ANSAP believes that the certification of Registered Nurses for IV Therapy should be continues for the several reasons, paramount of which is safe nursing practice. Novice nurse is a BSN graduate who has a current PRC license and he is able to perform basic procedures.

ANSAP believes that nurse who practice IV Therapy nursing are only those registered nurses who had been adequately trained and have completed the training requirements of the IV Therapy Program are Certified IV Therapy Nurse.

The ANSAP Nursing Standard of intravenous practice is conceptualized to serve as a guide for those who are and will be practicing IV Therapy. Safe and Quality Nursing care to patients is primary responsibility of nurses.

The Framework IV Therapy Training is graphically presented on page iv. It is a continues process in which every nurse shall start as a novice nurse in IV Therapy and proceeds to training for the following: a) ANSAP Standards for IV Therapy, b) Implementation of Standards in Infusion of Care, c) Procedure/Demonstration and, e) Completion of the requirements under the ANSAP standards. As a result, he/she must Certified as IV Therapy Nurse.


IV Therapy Standard Requirements
A.    Entrance Requirements
1. Must be a registered nurse with a current license from the PRC or certified Board rating for new nurses.
  • Certificate of Nursing Board Rating from the PRC is considered pending on the release of the PRC license for those who will be issued the first IVT card.
B.    Completion Requirements
1.    Attendance 3-day Basic IV Therapy training program approved by ANSAP.
2.    Completion of 3+3+2 requirements:
  • Three (3) successful peripheral IV cannulation to patients.
  • Three (3) administration of IV medication to patients.
  • Two (2) administrations of blood or blood components to patients.
3.    Submission of completed requirements within (3) months from date of IVT training, otherwise the 3-day Basic IV Therapy program shall be repeated.

C.    Renewal/Revalidation of IV Therapy Nurse Card
1.    IV Therapy card is renewable every three (3) years within birth month.
2.    Completion of ANSAP approved IV related updates equivalent to 24 units is the requirements for the  renewal of IVT card.
3.    Renewal of expired IVT card is subject to the following conditions:
  • Completion of 24-units Therapy Updates and Require fee within the year of expiry date.
  • Completion of 3-day Basic IV Therapy Program and required fee beyond the expiry date.
4.   Requirements for Renewal of IVT card:
  • Original IVT Card
  • Original and photocopy of certificates of attendance of IVT Therapy Updates which are equivalent to 24hrs/ceu as approved by ANSAP Healthcare institute
  • Two(2) recent 2X2 pictures (light green background)
  • Original and photocopy of current PRC license
  • Payment of required fees
D.    Requirements of Replacement of Lost IV Therapy Card
The lost IVT card shall be replaced by the National ANSAP office upon submission of the following:
1.    Original and photocopy of Certificate of attendance of the 3-day basic IV Therapy Training
2.    Original and Photocopy of Certificate of Training from ANSAP
3.    Notarized affidavit of loss
4.    Two (2) recent 2x2 pictures with light green background.
5.    Processing fee

E.    Grounds for Cancellation of the IV Therapy card
1.    The following Gave Offenses shall incur the penalty of six (6) months suspension and fine or cancellation of accreditation, upon the discretion of ANSAP board:
A.    Dishonest
B.    Grave Misconduct
C.    Falsification of Documents
D.    Disgraceful or Unpleasant Conduct
E.    Gross Violation of Nursing Law and ANSAP IVT standards


IVT Requirements
A.    Hospitals offering IV Therapy Training Program/ Related Updates
1.    The Hospitals which Offers IVT Therapy Training Program and IVT Related Updates shall comply with the following requirements:
a.    Must have a capacity of at least fifty (50) bed capacity
b.    Must have Chief Nurse/Director of Nursing, who should:
  • Be active member of ANSAP
  • Be certified in IVT Training for Trainers by ANSAP
  • Have Complied with R.A. 9173

c.    Must have twelve (12) ANSAP Certified Preceptors
d.    Curriculum vitae of Chief Nurse/Trainer with 2x2 picture
  • Photocopy of current PRC license
  • Photocopy of Trainer’s Card
  • Photocopy of ANSAP Membership Card
  • Three (3) specimen signature

e.    Curriculum vitae of your Preceptors with 2x2 pictures
  • photocopy of their current PRC license
  • photocopy of their Preceptor’s card
  • photocopy of ANSAP Membership Card
  • three (3) specimen signature

f.    Affidavit of Undertaking (IVT form 01 s.09)

2.    After complying with the above requirements, and upon favorable recommendations of ANSAP Health Institute, ANSAP shall issue to the hospital a certificate of Accreditation containing the same and control number of the IV Therapy card number of its IV Trainer.

3.    Certificate of Accreditation of the Hospital is valid in one (1) year and renewable one (1) month before its expiration. It is non-transferable. Its renewal requires the submission of application with attached payment of required fees to ANSAP Institute.

4.    In the event that the certified IV Therapy Nurse Trainer resigns or transfer, the hospital may continue the program/IVT related update, provided it has another ANSAP certified IV Therapy nurse trainer. The Chief Nurse and IV Therapy Nurse Trainer shall thereafter apply to take his/her place.

Nursing Board Exam Prayers






Nurses Prayer in Preparation for the Board Examination

Loving and merciful Father with gratitude to your bountiful grace we acknowledge your continuous presence and guidance among and within us.

As we prepare for the forthcoming Board Examination we ask you to give us Wisdom, courage and strength so that we may be sustained before, during and after the test.Enlighten our hearts and minds that we may be able to listen to the promptings of the Holy Spirit.

Keep us always in touch with CHRIST, the wounded healer, our companion in this journeywho would always remind us of honesty, sincerity and integrity.
We ask you all of these loving Father In the name of Jesus Christ, your Son who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit now and forever.

AMEN.


Student Nurse Prayer 


Lord, I know we go through this every day but please give me the knowledge as to why I actually wanted to go to nursing school. Lord, give me the strength to make it through those boring three hour lectures without falling asleep. Lord, please give me the patience to make it through twelve hour clinicals with instructors that can’t just give you the right answer and on the same note, give the nurses the ability to remember what it was like to be a student and give us just a little more respect. Lord, give me the endurance to read all the assigned readings and be able to remember it when I am taking a test with four right answers. Lord, give my family and friends the ability to realize I really am on the edge of insanity. Finally, Lord, give me the vision to see that one day I will be a real nurse and I will never have to wear this ugly uniform again

AMEN.






Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Principles of Success for Board Exam Takers




The “13 Principles of Success for Exam Takers” mix together some of the best strategies to be adopted by anyone facing the challenge of preparing a for a certification exam. These strategies can be applied by exam takers from any field of knowledge or profession.

1. GET CLEAR ON YOUR WHY

A clear vision of your objective, and written goals, is an essential precondition to success. As the saying goes, if you dream it, you should ink it. That is the number one recommendation of many authors, coaches and mentors. That is a formula for attainment of any goal.

By clearly articulating what you want on a sheet of paper, you point yourself in the direction of your deepest intent. At the same time, you are clearing away what you don’t want by jotting down knowingly what you know you want. Knowing your clear wishes, desires, and dreams create a path and a direction to focus on and a relief from anxiety and indecision.

The best way to formulate your goals is by focusing on what you want and why you want it. What benefit do you expect to obtain from attaining what you want? What inspiration moves you toward attainment of your desire? How will you feel when you realize that desire? What positive changes will the realization of the desire bring to you?

Indeed, knowing your why always leads you to the end result or solution you desire to manifest.


2. GET INFORMED AND DECIDE WISELY

Having the right information at the right time makes all the difference. And getting needed information is mostly a matter of planning. Yet, in the information era, many decisions are still being made without pondering important factors because of lack of specific information at the right time.

Gathering the right information from the right source has become a valuable skill in almost every field. Proof of it is that research and benchmarking are well paid skills in the job market today. Everyone is a potential information researcher in the World Wide Web. The challenge for you, as an exam candidate is to keep focused and steer clear of irrelevant information that does not align with your research objective, by applying a critical filtering strategy to test the reliability of information at hand.

Before deciding how to prepare for your certification exam, take time to ponder all factors involved in getting the result you want, to pass the exam. Explore each factor by asking yourself questions about it. Intentionally, research the answers to those questions. The results will bring you the control and help you need to manage the factors you find relevant to the outcome you seek. Time invested in becoming informed, before making a decision, is time used wisely and productively.

Most of the initial decisions you make will directly impact your performance and eventually, your final result. Therefore, it is wise for you to dedicate appropriate time to research the details that combine your preferences with your convenience, before engaging in the exam preparation process.

Wise decisions are also informed decisions and much of your informed decisions will depend on how much you know about yourself as a student, as an exam taker, and as a goal achiever. The point here is that you must know your preferences, as well as your weaknesses, strengths, and what makes you feel good or not so good.
Therefore, match what you know about yourself with your alternatives and options, timing, methods, and everything else that may impact the decisions you may have to make that affect your preparation and capacity to take an exam.

And keep in mind that, in this arena other people’s experiences are relatively irrelevant to you. Let the organizing power of knowing yourself guide you intuitively in the decisions you have to make. Decide as wisely as you possibly can.


3. PLAN HOLISTICALLY

Planning holistically means making provisions for required mental work (i.e. acquiring knowledge), but also for your physical, emotional, and spiritual well being.

During the preparation for exams, the energy you need for mental work comes from convenient habits and behaviors you incorporate in daily activities to keep you fresh, focused, motivated, positive, and confident.
Therefore, develop and maintain healthy and balanced habits with regard to food, fitness, sleep, and rest. Intentionally incorporate these habits in the study plan, and schedule and execute the plan faithfully during your waking hours throughout the examination preparation process.

Many exam candidates focus their attention on the study time they need to cover the material assigned in an outline. They fail to incorporate in their plan the time needed to take care of their physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing. Come time for the exams, their energy will be at low ebb and that rattles their confidence.

Remember however, once you have your plan, that goals are not achieved by dreaming or solely by writing down plans. Attaining desired success comes down to faithful execution of the plan, deciding wisely, and acquiring the habit of DOING what you say you are going to do. Do these long enough and you will reach your desired objective.


4. MOTIVATION vs. INSPIRATION 

Look for both, motivation and inspiration, throughout your journey as an exam candidate.

Motivation is the fuel that keeps you going. It is needed during the entire journey to help you do what you must to reach your desired objective. Inspiration is a different vibration than motivation. Inspiration gives the sense that you are already where you want to be. Inspiration gives you the picture of the end result you are working for, like “the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow”.

Both, motivation and inspiration are stimulated when you are clear on your “WHY”, which is what defines what you are looking for. The changes, the improvement, the expansion, the sense of freedom, and the growth of your ambitions arise from the challenge you embrace and are the seeds of your motivation and inspiration to achieve a successful outcome.


5. FOCUS ON YOUR GOAL

Humans are creatures of habits and habits are the result of actions routinely repeated after they are consciously or unconsciously acquired. It can safely be assumed that habits can also be intentionally and purposely acquired by chosen convenient actions faithfully repeated for 20 to 30 days.

One convenient habit to acquire during the process of preparing for an exam is to focus on the end goal on a daily basis. What is your intention? What do you want? That is your goal. Write it. Make a video of it. Record it and come back to it every day.

Reinforcing your intention frequently will create the momentum for the manifestation of what you are looking for. Magnetize the vibration of what you want by keeping focused on it. In that way, as you move toward it, it will move toward you, as if attracted by a magnet.

Take advantage of the magic of this soup of energy that is this world in which all human are dancing to the tune of pursuing a dream, a wish, or a desire.


6. LET YOUR TRIGGERS DRIVE YOU TO THRIVE

Part of knowing yourself is in identifying your internal and external triggers. What makes you to take action? What activates your willpower? What generates enthusiasm in you? What makes you take on initiatives?

Knowing what elements of day-to-day activities influence your behavior the most may give you the power to intentionally use these activities in pursuit of your goals. Ask yourself these questions: Do I tend to be more competitive or cooperative? Do I prefer constancy or change? What do I prefer to receive as reward for my performance: sincere appreciation without a financial bonus, or a bonus without appreciation?

The answers to these questions are very personal and will vary along the span of your life. But they can give you clues on how to motivate yourself to pursue your goals.


7. WANT vs. COMMITMENT

Settling in the process of getting informed, planning, making decisions, and taking action toward reaching the objective of passing an exam will build in you a certain level of commitment.

If you want to pass any exam, you must be willing to do what you need to do to attain that goal. And you will, unless you allow distractions to become so urgent or necessary that you decide to give them priority, thereby delaying your exam preparation process or scrap it altogether. Keep in mind that, wanting to pass the exam is not enough. You must absolutely commit yourself to passing it.

Commitment is stronger than merely wanting. Commit yourself to do all you need to do to pass your exam, in the first try, if possible. In your commitment, forego any chance for delaying or giving up, if you want a successful outcome. Erase from your mind and intention any other possibility that is not to joyfully prepare for and successfully passing your exam. Make that commitment even before you take the first step in the planning process, before you start studying for the exam.


8. NEVER GIVE UP

Willpower and persistence are a combination you will need to keep going. It is what makes you press on and never give-up. It may be even bigger than waves of faith, hope and inspiration you may choose to tap into when the going gets tough.

The ability or the attitude of believing in yourself and in what you are doing, regardless of circumstance, makes all the difference in the attainment of favorable results. This is especially true while taking an exam. It is so easy to feel insecure and overwhelmed in the middle of such a challenging journey. Your attitude and will power are the most important assets leading to your success. You will never give up once you begin to understand and realize that you are capable of passing your exam because you are putting forth all of your very best effort.


9. TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME:

It is possible to accomplish anything when the big tasks involved can be divided into smaller tasks that make one feel in control of the situation. When a big task frightens you, break it down into smaller, more manageable tasks that do not frighten you. Nothing seems impossible to accomplish when the tasks are broken into small and more manageable tasks.

Exam takers have three defined stages in their journey: decision, preparation and examination. The most challenging stage, without a doubt, is the preparation stage because the candidate must sort through a high volume of material that will be covered in the exam, and review or study that material in a relatively short period of time.

Do not let the amount of study material frighten you for a second. Break it down into small, more manageable parcels and distribute them over the available time. It will all seem easier to tackle.


10. MOVE FORWARD EVERYDAY

Nourishing a constant sense of success and accomplishment allows you to move forward toward your goal, every day. Make constant inventory of what you already did and feel good about it.

When a long period is required to prepare for an exam, feeling good about the task of studying will make things flow easier and more enjoyable. Maintaining discipline in following your study plan becomes natural, and you will advance toward your desire goal of passing your exam by conquering concepts, gaining confidence and mastering the process better every day, one step at the time.


11. ADD PERSONAL VALUE

Any challenging goal one embraces in life is a potential opportunity for growth and expansion. During your journey to prepare for an exam you will have wonderful opportunities to free yourself from bad habits, negative thought patterns and toxic feelings, and push yourself beyond them. To succeed, expand, and become a better you is part of the challenge you embrace when you engage in a long- term preparation for an exam.

Commit yourself to continued personal improvement. Decide to add personal value during your journey as an exam candidate. You will need that attitude because under the pressure of time and the weight of tasks to complete, negativity creeps in and can expand easily with the potential to take control of all your moments.

Marianne Williamson’s “A Return to Love” has this inspirational paragraph on growing that offers a challenging for every reader. 

The passage says: Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us, it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”


12. PREPARE FOR A HAPPY EXAM DAY

The happiest day of your entire examination experience is the exam day. It is a day of relief. A winning intention, a focused attention and a relaxed state of mind and body is what you want on your exam day. How to prepare for that day?

There is no better way to prepare for the exam day than through the powerful practice of autosuggestion, by using tools such as visualization and affirmations.

The mind is stimulated with imagination and thoughts, pictures and words. Humans are programming themselves continually with mental pictures and an inner dialogue. It is possible to program oneself consciously, intentionally and purposely by choosing the images and words that will bring the desired successful results.


13. BE IN CONTROL BY OWNING YOUR POWER

Exam candidates need a unique mix of knowledge, study and exam strategies, self-confidence, stamina, and determination to be successful in the examination room. Passing the exams on the first attempt is possible for any candidate who learns to manage the preparation process and the exam day.

Your power to manage your exam preparation process and its result comes from managing weighted factors over which you have a relative level of control such as personal attitude, study and exam strategies, and the material you use in preparation.

Managing your attitude is key to your success because your attitude reveals how powerfully committed you are to the goal of passing your exams. You, and you alone, own your power to “say yes” to what is meaningful to your goal or “say no” to what is not.


Source:  TAXBIZ SOLUTIONS









June / July 2012 PNLE Room Assignments


Important Reminders:
  1. Examinees should report before 6:30 in the morning every examination day. LATE EXAMINEES WILL NOT BE ADMITTED.
  2.  Bring the following: Notice of Admission (NOA), Official Receipt, pencils no. 1 or 2, black ball pens, metered-stamped window mailing envelope, long brown and long plastic envelopes.
  3. CELLULAR PHONES AND OTHER ELECTRONIC GADGETS ARE STRICTLY PROHIBITED
Examinees are reminded to take note of their exam venue (school/building and address) to avoid hassle on the examination day.
As per PRC-BON Resolution no. 2009-20, those who will take the Nursing Board Exam are required to observe the following dress code:
  • Male - Clinical uniform with white shoes and white socks but without nameplate, school insignia/logo, and pin or School Uniform.
  • Female - Clinical uniform with white shoes and white stockings but without nameplate, school insignia/logo, and pin or School Uniform.
  • Pregnant Examinees - White clinical scrub suit
  • Repeaters may wear white clinical scrub suit.












Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI)


The Integrated Management of Childhood Illness or IMCI has several key points in the promotion and restoration of health of children in the community. It has been improved to provide a more integrated approach to managing sickchildren by UNICEF in cooperation with the WHO.
The main objectives of IMCI involves the reduction of significantly global child mortality and morbidity associated with the major causes of illness and as well contribute to the promotion of healthy growth and development of children. Its components basically encompass the improvement of several aspects of health in the community, which are:
  • Skills of health workers in case management
  • Health care delivery system
  • Family and community health practices
The Integrated Management of Childhood Illness does not only emphasize the adjustment of curative interventions in the community but to encourage the active involvement of family members and the community in the health care process. Thus, health teaching/ counselling as an essential component in the improvement of health is being utilized in IMCI.
This guide manual is being utilized by health care workers in the:
  • Assessment and classification (color coded)
  • Identification of appropriate treatment
  • Treatment or referral
  • Provision of health teaching and counselling
  • Giving instructions for follow- up in the rural health unit


Tuesday, June 19, 2012

PNLE July 2012 UPDATES: NLE TIPS - MEDICAL AND SURGICAL NURSING

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Sunday, June 17, 2012

Project Entreprenurse




An initiative of DOLE, in collaboration with BON-PRC, DOH, PNA, UPCN, OHNAP and other government and non-government entities, and academic institutions to promote nurse entrepreneurship in the Philippines:

1)   To reduce the cost of health care for the country’s indigent population by bringing primary health care services to poor rural communities,
2)    To maximize employment opportunities for the country’s unemployed nurses and
3)   To utilize the country’s unemployed human resources for health for the delivery of public health services and the achievement of the country’s Millennium Development Goals on maternal and child health, consistent with the Fourmula One for Health framework of the Department of Health.


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Monday, June 11, 2012

Health Benefits of Sex


When you’re in the mood, it’s a sure bet that the last thing on your mind is boosting your immune system or maintaining a healthy weight. Yet good sex offers those health benefits and more. That’s a surprise to many people, says Joy Davidson, PhD, a New York psychologist and sex therapist. “Of course, sex is everywhere in the media,” she says. “But the idea that we are vital, sexual creatures is still looked at in some cases with disgust or in other cases a bit of embarrassment. So to really take a look at how our sexuality adds to our life and enhances our life and our health, both physical and psychological, is eye-opening for many people.”
Sex does a body good in a number of ways, according to Davidson and other experts. The benefits aren’t just anecdotal or hearsay, each of these 10 health benefits of sex is backed by scientific scrutiny.


1. Sex Relieves Stress
A big health benefit of sex is lower blood pressure and overall stress reduction, according to researchers from Scotland who reported their findings in the journal Biological Psychology. They studied 24 women and 22 men who kept records of their sexual activity. Then the researchers subjected them to stressful situations — such as speaking in public and doing verbal arithmetic — and noted their blood pressure response to stress.
Those who had intercourse had better responses to stress than those who engaged in other sexual behaviors or abstained.
Another study published in the same journal found that frequent intercourse was associated with lower diastolic blood pressure in cohabiting participants. Yet other research found a link between partner hugs and lower blood pressure in women.
2. Sex Boosts Immunity
Good sexual health may mean better physical health. Having sex once or twice a week has been linked with higher levels of an antibody called immunoglobulin A or IgA, which can protect you from getting colds and other infections. Scientists at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., took samples of saliva, which contain IgA, from 112 college students who reported the frequency of sex they had.
Those in the “frequent” group — once or twice a week — had higher levels of IgA than those in the other three groups — who reported being abstinent, having sex less than once a week, or having it very often, three or more times weekly.
3. Sex Burns Calories
Thirty minutes of sex burns 85 calories or more. It may not sound like much, but it adds up: 42 half-hour sessions will burn 3,570 calories, more than enough to lose a pound. Doubling up, you could drop that pound in 21 hour-long sessions.
“Sex is a great mode of exercise,” says Patti Britton, PhD, a Los Angeles sexologist and president of the American Association of Sexuality Educators and Therapists. It takes work, from both a physical and psychological perspective, to do it well, she says.
4. Sex Improves Cardiovascular Health
While some older folks may worry that the efforts expended during sex could cause a stroke, that’s not so, according to researchers from England. In a study published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, scientists found that the frequency of sex was not associated with stroke in the 914 men they followed for 20 years.
And the heart health benefits of sex don’t end there. The researchers also found that having sex twice or more a week reduced the risk of fatal heart attack by half for the men, compared with those who had sex less than once a month.
5. Sex Boosts Self-Esteem
Boosting self-esteem was one of 237 reasons people have sex, collected by University of Texas researchers and published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior.
That finding makes sense to Gina Ogden, PhD, a sex therapist and marriage and family therapist in Cambridge, Mass., although she finds that those who already have self-esteem say they sometimes have sex to feel even better. “One of the reasons people say they have sex is to feel good about themselves,” she tells WebMD. “Great sex begins with self-esteem, and it raises it. If the sex is loving, connected, and what you want, it raises it.”
6. Sex Improves Intimacy
Having sex and orgasms increases levels of the hormone oxytocin, the so-called love hormone, which helps us bond and build trust. Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and the University of North Carolina evaluated 59 premenopausal women before and after warm contact with their husbands and partners ending with hugs. They found that the more contact, the higher the oxytocin levels.
“Oxytocin allows us to feel the urge to nurture and to bond,” Britton says.
Higher oxytocin has also been linked with a feeling of generosity. So if you’re feeling suddenly more generous toward your partner than usual, credit the love hormone.
7. Sex Reduces Pain
As the hormone oxytocin surges, endorphins increase, and pain declines. So if your headache, arthritis pain, or PMS symptoms seem to improve after sex, you can thank those higher oxytocin levels.
In a study published in the Bulletin of Experimental Biology and Medicine, 48 volunteers who inhaled oxytocin vapor and then had their fingers pricked lowered their pain threshold by more than half.
8. Sex Reduces Prostate Cancer Risk
Frequent ejaculations, especially in 20-something men, may reduce the risk of prostate cancer later in life, Australian researchers reported in the British Journal of Urology International. When they followed men diagnosed with prostate cancer and those without, they found no association of prostate cancer with the number of sexual partners as the men reached their 30s, 40s, and 50s.
But they found men who had five or more ejaculations weekly while in their 20s reduced their risk of getting prostate cancer later by a third.
Another study, reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that frequent ejaculations, 21 or more a month, were linked to lower prostate cancer risk in older men, as well, compared with less frequent ejaculations of four to seven monthly.
9. Sex Strengthens Pelvic Floor Muscles
For women, doing a few pelvic floor muscle exercises known as Kegel exercises during sex offers a couple of benefits. You will enjoy more pleasure, and you’ll also strengthen the area and help to minimize the risk of incontinence later in life.
To do a basic Kegel exercise, tighten the muscles of your pelvic floor, as if you’re trying to stop the flow of urine. Count to three, then release.
10. Sex Helps You Sleep Better
The oxytocin released during orgasm also promotes sleep, according to research.
And getting enough sleep has been linked with a host of other good things, such as maintaining a healthy weight and blood pressure. Something to think about, especially if you’ve been wondering why your guy can be active one minute and snoring the next.

  

Healthy Relationship: The Equality Wheel




What is the “Equality Wheel”?
The Equality wheel is a model used to explain the dynamics of a healthy relationship. It is applicable to all forms of relationships; with friends, dating partners, intimate partners, life partners, or family members. Each component of the wheel supports and reinforces the others, with equality always at the center. The Equality wheel can be used by anyone as a guide to maintaining healthy patterns in a relationship.

The Center of the Wheel:
Equality: Equality is the foundation of any healthy relationship
The Spokes of the Wheel:
Trust: trust appropriately. You would trust your life partner more than you would trust a new aquaintance.
Support: Support each other. Encourage others in their goals, activities, and personal growth.
Respect: Respect other people’s boundaries. Learn othe people’s boundaries and do not infringe upon them.
Responsibility: share responsibility for maintaining a relationship. Bothpeople in a relationship should be included in making decisions.
Communication: communicate effectively. effective communication involves clearly expressing your thoughts and feelings and listening to those and others.
Boundaries: maintain healthy boundaries. create safe and comfortable space to experience relationships by defining and communicating your boundaries to others.
Honesty: Be open and honest. it is important for both people in a relationship to be honest about their intentions, feelings, or desires.
Accountability: Be responsible for your own actions. Talk to others to understand how your actions effect them.

The Outer Circle of the Wheel:
Non- Violence: there is no place for violent acts or behaviors in a healthy relationships. examples of violent acts or behaviors include yelling, name-calling, minimizing feelings, throwing things, unwanted touching, pushing, hitting, stalking, and forced sex.