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Wearing Contact Lenses During the COVID-19 Pandemic

During this COVID-19 pandemic, you may have wondered, "Is it safe to wear contact lenses?" We have always been informed that we should avoid touching our faces, especially our eyes during this pandemic. Wearing face shields are also helpful in protecting yourself from acquiring the virus (prevention of droplet transmission), so I thought that "I should avoid wearing contact lenses, and wearing eyeglasses would be better." If you thought of the same thing, then we are both wrong. 

Buy a Mask and Help a Front Liner (NAYITEK)

In this photo, I’m wearing a NAYITEK nano-fiber medical mask. It’s a washable/reusable mask (good for 60-90 days) with 99% virus filtration rate.** With a quadruple protection filter, it has a high filtering efficiency, suitable for environments with heavy air pollution and virus ravages. Each layer of the filter element intercepts different harmful substances, a layer of skin-friendly membrane, hypoallergenic; 3D breathing space structure, double-layer micro-filtration layer, the best mask against COVID-19. Better than N95.*

Why Stupid People Think They Are Smart (The Dunning-Kruger Effect)

We all know that one person who speaks as if they know everything, or so much at least--or someone who speaks as if he or she is a veteran yet has so little experience. This psychological bias where someone believes himself to be smarter and more competent than they actually are is called the Dunning-Kruger Effect. (Above photo by photoschmidt/Shutterstock).

Sitting is the New Smoking

The simplest guideline for all of us would have to be, “Sit less and move more, ”  according to close to 2,000-member Philippine Heart Association (PHA) and the husband and wife tandem of fitness gurus,  Jim and Toni Saret.

Guilt-Free Sweet Life with Leaflife Stevia

Being a foodie who loves to eat, especially sweets, it's difficult to discipline me on my sugar intake. At work, I drink coffee with sugar, At home, I drink tea with sugar. I basically take a lot of sugar. Thankfully, I discovered this sweet treat that's a healthier option and a guilt-free sweet life. 

Broken Heart Syndrome

Did you know that you can really DIE with a BROKEN HEART? I was going through my modules for my anatomy and physiology students when I came across this article. I find it worth sharing.

I was Featured in The International Filipino: Model Nurses



Do you ever have those random days wherein you just get curious and start to google your own name to see what would show up? That's how I found out (just recently) that I was featured in an issue of The International Filipino. I didn't know that I was featured here. This was last 2012 when I joined a pageant for nurses. See me at page 5/12. They got my second name wrong in the interview, though. (You can zoom in on the embedded page). 

How Endorsing the GCS Can Help You Save a Patient's Life

Being in a country where there is a nurse-patient ratio of 1:15-26 per shift, it is not easy to be able to perform a thorough assessment to all of the patients. In most cases, especially in a government setting, some assessments are skipped and only a few things are endorsed. In my experience among some institutions, the Glasgow Coma Scale or GCS is often missed because the assessment takes a while to finish, and only a few have actually memorized this scale by heart--some nurses also tend to focus more on the vital signs.

I was on ambulance duty when we responded to an 18-year old girl who lost consciousness at home. We assessed her vitals signs and gathered her medical history along with a brief physical assessment. She was diagnosed with chickenpox and is currently on her third day from when the symptoms started to appear. Although her vital signs are stable and within the normal range, I still assessed her GCS and had a score of 5 (E-3, V-1, M-1). We loaded her into the ambulance and I reassessed her during transport. I got a GCS of 4 (E-2, V-1, M-1) by the time that we arrived at the Emergency Room.

Study Finds Pediatric Trauma Nurses Know About Trauma-Informed Care


A recent study from The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital published in the Journal of Pediatric Nursing reveals pediatric trauma nurses are knowledgeable about practicing trauma-informed care, but points to the need for additional nurse training to help families cope after a child's injury. When an injury occurs, both the child and other family members may experience traumatic stress reactions interfering with a full recovery. Pediatric nurses play a key role in preventing injury-related post-traumatic stress by providing trauma-informed care, which includes recognizing pre-existing trauma, addressing acute traumatic stress reactions associated with the traumatic event, minimizing potentially traumatic aspects of treatment, and identifying children who need additional monitoring or referrals for more help.

Why Kids Should Be Protected from Toxic Stress

This is from one of my journals in my psychology class. If you have a child at home, I hope you would take some time to read this. This would be helpful especially for parents of infants. Part of our society’s norms is to allow the child to cry for a few minutes before attending to him because we tend to believe that this will make his lungs stronger when he grows up. Our society also believes that this will prevent the child to be “spoiled” as he grows older. This is a wrong notion and must be corrected.

Biomedical Ethics: Induced Abortion



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