I LEARNED TODAY

OKAY. I LEARNED TODAY that heart attacks which occur in the morning, between 6am and noon, have potential for causing more widespread damage to heart tissues than those which occur at other times during the day. The researchers looked only at patients who suffered a specific type of heart attack called STEMI (ST Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction), during which blood supply to the heart is blocked for a relatively long period of time. Patients who suffered STEMI heart attacks in the morning were found to have 21% more dead heart tissue than those who had heart attacks between 6pm and midnight. Previous studies have shown that one’s risk for heart attack can be up to 40% higher in the mornings. Scientists theorize this is due to many factors, including a sudden increase in adrenaline (which increases blood pressure and heart rate), an acute increase in the work the heart needs to do, and more likelihood for blood clots to occur. All these factors may also contribute to the findings in this recent study

DUTYMATE ABEGAIL

ABEGAIL PENAFRANCE, is my seatmate since the first day of college. I am thinking how can my life here in college of nursing be without her. We live on a same dorm together. Go to mass together. We eat together. I photocopy her notes. I ask her questions. I let her explain to me things. I really love this woman. We will chat during classes, go to breaks. Be my dutymate for a long while and let me borrow paraphernalia. I will certainly miss her. She is my shopping buddy how can I shop without her criticizing the colors that I choose. And how can she choose the next man to fall in love with without my critics.

She wants to be an Operating Room nurse someday. While I am dreaming of doing researches for nursing. It's really boring she said. But she is the one of those few who understands how I am force to be here.

 Now we are reviewing together. Attending our review classes is easier because of her. Specially when it's rainy and when it already afteternoon.

From the first time I saw her I already now she is going to be bff. Thanks a lot abegail for everything.

Quotes

The days are passing. Hindi ako makatulog. Board exam ang naiisip ko ngayon. My classmate Abegail Diaz said, " Sana June na lang ang July." I thought that it is better to be on July for longer study periods. But now I know June is better. As I quote from our speaker Ms. Chelsea del Castillo "We don't need to study longer if we are prepared. The goal of a review is to make us remember, not to make us know." She is really right. Mrs. Evelyn Portanilla also said that "The father it is the longer the agony."  and I am on that agony now. I want to take the board exams tomorrow. I can't sleep thinking of their words. What I can do now is to study.

10, 000 NURSES FOR RN HEALS

10, 000 Nurses according to Nursing Crib are needed for RN Heals. Good News but never good enough. It's such a short term solution thinking that there are plenty more nurses who will be produced this year, and how many more are still jobless then another job to be added. one thumb up...the other one down.

ACCEPTING NURSES

Last Wednesday, the Department of Health (DOH) announced that they are looking for 10,000 registered nurses to be trained and deployed to poor rural communities in the Philippines.


RN HEALS, an acronym for Registered Nurses for Health Enhancement And Local Service, is expected to address the shortage of skilled and experienced nurses in 1,221 rural and unserved or underserved communities for one year.


The nurses will undergo learning and development in accordance with the roles and functions required by the project. A certificate of competency and employment will be given by the DOH, DSWD, and the Professional Regulation Commission to those who have satisfactorily completed their requirements.
Qualified nurses will be given an allowance of P8,000 per month, plus a minimum of P2,000 from the local government unit (LGU) they are serving.


Registered nurses who are physically and mentally fit, and willing to serve in their municipalities may apply online at the DOLE website (www.dole.gov.ph) from January 17 to February 4 this year. Preference will be given to residents of the municipalities covered by the Health Facilities Enhancement Program of DOH and Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program or the Conditional Cash Transfer of the DSWD.


The list of successful applicants with their area of assignments shall be posted online at the DOLE website from February 7-10. An orientation shall be held on February 11-12 in their provincial centers of assignment by the regional DOH, DSWD, Professional Regulation Commission – Board of Nursing and the Philippine Nurses Association prior to deployment.


Source: DOH


Link: http://www.nars.dole.gov.ph/apply.aspx 


GOOD but i don't see myself as one.

PREDATORS

Producers are hoping to revive an old franchise that originated with John McTiernan’s 1987 sci-fi thriller starring Arnold Schwarzenegger (Predator, singular), several critics would just as soon send it back to its grave. The New York Times’s Stephen Holden is one of them. While the filmmakers seem to be intent on creating a “karmic morality tale whose human predators finally get their comeuppance,” he writes, “this chaotic stew of fire, blood, mud and explosives is so devoid of terror and suspense that any metaphorical analysis is rendered moot.” In the San Francisco Chronicle, Amy Biancolli summarizes the plot, then observes, “None of this is scary, and nothing makes sense.” And Christopher Kelly concludes in the Dallas Morning News: “Predators mostly just suggests a bunch of grown-up men playing with toys and not bothering to invite the rest of us into their circle.” But Tirdad Derakhshani in the Philadelphia Inquirer assures “Predator purists” that they “have nothing to fear: This is a worthy follow-up.” Lisa Kennedy in the Denver Post agrees, calling it “a stylish, lean and, well, familiar outing.” And Michael O’Sullivan in the Washington Post suspects that the filmmakers really want us to take the whole affair as an inside joke. “In the end,” he concludes, “the film’s perverse party spirit wins out over any pretentious hoo-ha.” »

WE ONLY APPRECIATED HER GOODNESS NOW THAT SHE IS GONE. I AM SO INSPIRED BY THIS REMARKABLE WOMAN.

THIS IS BY Sheila Coronel published on 15 August 2009.

The Filipino opposition activist Benigno Aquino was assassinated on the tarmac of Manila airport on 21 August 1983, moments after his return to the country to challenge the rule of long-term president, Ferdinand Marcos. That was also the day Corazon Aquino stopped being, in her words, "just a housewife". The woman once content to be in the shadow of "Ninoy" became instead the leader of the democracy movement in the Philippines that swept her to the presidency on 25 February 1986 and made her an inspiration to others around the world struggling against tyranny.

Sheila Coronel isdirector of theStabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University, and afounder of thePhilippine Center for Investigative Journalism. Her eight books on Philippine politics include Coups, Cults & Cannibals: chronicles of a troubled decade, 1982-1992 (Anvil Publishing, 1993) and The Rulemakers: how the wealthy and well-born dominate Congress (Anvil Publishing, 2007)                               This article was with minor editorial variationspublished in theWall Street Journal on 2 August 2009

Cory Aquino's death on 1 August 2009 has sparked a depth of collective emotion unseen in the Philippines for years. Thousands of mourners are gathering in Manila to pay their respects and honour the soft-spoken and unassuming woman who led the "people-power" revolt that ended the twenty-year reign of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos. For more than a generation she was an established presence in the country's political life; her role as a defender of democracy and moral exemplar will be hard to fill.

That observation may seem counterintuitive. After all, the Philippines is widely perceived as a dysfunctional democracy; and the events of 1986 make the idea of "people power " - the use of peaceful protest to topple a government, elected or not - one of Cory Aquino's major legacies. Indeed it remains, for better or for worse, the default template for bringing about political reform and "regime change" in the Philippines. Yet the country is still a democracy. The institutions established during the Aquino administration - a strong legislature, an independent judiciary and a free press - are largely in place.

Cory Aquino achieved these changes under the most difficult of circumstances. In 1983, Ferdinand Marcos's Philippines was a place rife with rumour, conspiracy and intrigue. The president was seriously ill, kept alive in his barricaded palace by a team of doctors who had been sworn to secrecy about his condition. Various factions, including one led by his glittering and powerful wife Imelda, were jockeying for power. The economy was in dire straits; the press, muzzled; the opposition, divided and dispirited.

The killing of Benigno Aquino brought "Cory", as she became affectionately known to Filipinos, into the limelight and into a defiant challenge to these realities. She united the opposition and ran for the presidency against Marcos. She campaigned throughout the country, holding audiences rapt by recounting in a flat monotone the story of her husband's homecoming and death. When she told Filipinos, "I am like you, a victim of Marcos", there was silence and tears. Her story mirrored so many of their own and her courageous expression of it released the potential for others to articulate their hopes for change. It was a profound democratic moment in the history of the Philippines.

Cory Aquino was the complete opposite of Ferdinand Marcos. He was the consummate political animal - charming, cunning and ruthless; she was an anti-politician. But this apparent weakness was her strength, and this fact led Marcos to underestimate her. Until Cory arrived on the scene, Filipino leaders had been macho and male. Cory broke the mould. After the fraudulent "snap" election of 7 February 1986 and the subsequent defection of a unit of Marcos's armed forces, hundreds of thousands of citizens took to the streets. Filipinos, wearing the yellow apparel that had become the symbol of solidarity and support for change, stood proudly before Marcos's tanks; braved threats of violence and repression; and, after three intense days, saw their peaceful protest emerge victorious as the Marcos couple and their retinue were allowed to fly into exile.

A political legacy

The years after the people-power revolution were difficult. Cory Aquino cobbled together a political coalition that proved fractious and soon fell apart. In subsequent years, until she handed power to her chosen successor Fidel Ramos in 1992, there were six attempts by rebel military factions to oust her. The last time, in 1989, United States warplanes had to be called in to provide air-cover for troops loyal to the president.

Also inopenDemocracy:

Steven Rogers, "Philippines' democracy in turmoil" (16 August 2005)

Mark Dearn, "Mindanao: poverty on the frontlines" (4 June 2009)

It is probably unrealistic to believe that Aquino could have done more. Her political and social inheritance - which included dictatorship, corruption, poverty, weak institutions, and near civil war - was difficult. Moreover, her power lay in her moral force and unquestioned personal integrity: she had no army, no political party, no formal organisation behind her. In any event, her campaign and victory made her the projection-screen for an entire country's hopes, and she could not possibly have fulfilled them all.

Cory Aquino was not a visionary or a social reformer. She was very much a product of her time and place. She belonged to one of the biggest landowning families in the Philippines, was a loyal believer in the Catholic faith, and believed she was destined to restore democracy to what she knew it to be: the 1960s-style elitist democracy of political families and patronage. But the political circumstances of the time meant that she became the vehicle of a more participatory democracy. During her presidency, Aquino recognised the key role of non-governmental organisations and was active in them during her retirement.

This commitment revealed an enduring strength of character which Marcos, the rebel colonels, and even at times the Filipino people underestimated. After her presidential term ended, she successfully defended the constitution she had introduced in February 1987 - ratified by an 80% majority in a referendum - against attempts to amend it. She even successfully led a second people-power revolt in 2001 against former president Joseph Estrada, who went on to be convicted of corruption in 2007.

Even in death, it is likely that Cory Aquino will remain the symbol of Filipinos' hopes. After the period of mourning ends, her ultimate political legacy will continue to be discussed and debated. But there is one thing her compatriots can agree on: in 1986 she showed Filipinos that they were capable of greatness, and thus surely can be again.