Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:02+01:0021 November, 2015|
It was a summer morning. Those where the heat and humidity of the Mediterranean fall you by your back the first thing in the morning. I had an appoinment with him. Antonio, an anaesthetist and ventilation expert but without the prestige of others, although dozens of residents have learned of his mastery. We knew each other and I was impressed by his [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:02+01:0021 November, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. Second international experience of the IC-HU Project, this time destination to Latin America: Colombia. The humanization of intensive care does not understand frontiers, only bridges and ties in relations.We have been invited to participate in the "4th International Symposium Quality Award, MEDELLÍN, Healthy City" which will be held on November 25th. This time our [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:02+01:0019 November, 2015|
Patient safety has become a challenge and a priority of all health systems. Despite this, many patients still suffer different damage arising from health care [i].When there is serious injury to the patient, patients and their families must be supported by the Organization and receive the appropriate information. But professionals and institutions can also suffer as a result of these [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:03+01:0018 November, 2015|
Rwinkwavu is located in Kayonza district in the East of Rwanda, a mainly agricultural region. The Rwandan Ministry of health noted that the mortality rate in children under 5 years old was higher than that in neighbouring districts. In collaboration with Partners in Health, a non-profit organization which works to bring modern medicine to the needy, they observed that neonatal [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:03+01:0017 November, 2015|
Hello everybody, my dear friends.Tomorrow Wednesday November 18th will be held in Madrid the XI Nursing Conference "To share for learning" in the Aula Magna of the Pavilion teacher of the Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón. The aim of the Conference is to disseminate and share some of the work produced in the last two years by nursing professionals. The [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:03+01:0013 November, 2015|
Sometimes I think that when there is not a commercial interest, there is no way to implement certain activities which are beneficial and which have demonstrated their social utility. This is the case of secondary prevention in victims of traffic accidents. Source: Mar de Fondo We know that near 45% of all injuries from 16 to 70 years, admitted to [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:04+01:0012 November, 2015|
As other many Spanish Hospitals, in the ICU of the Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge we have shown that family of the critically-ill patient is subject of care. However, this attention depends in many cases of individual predisposition of each nurse. Therefore, generally, the family is considered as an alien part to the unit and the patient. This cause dissatisfaction of [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:04+01:0011 November, 2015|
It seems that there is no doubt that "the humanization revolution" is real. At least in networks what means that it is also true in the mind and the purposes of those who belong to them and thus transmit it. The problem is that the organizations (and their representatives) sometimes show a too contradictory message and we can see (occasionally [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:04+01:0010 November, 2015|
There is not much to do to avoid the tremendous pain we feel. The lost of your most loved person, the lost of a child that dies when he should begin to live. There is not much to do to avoid the frustration after so many and so hard fought over 20 years, for nothing, but if something can mitigate [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:04+01:007 November, 2015|
To know your name is not enoughI guess, because I know you, perhaps you are worried because your daughter is waiting for the results of her review. The companions of the afternoon joke, and send hugs to you trying to clothe from another corner, as a small or large family, gathered in a hospital room of dialysis. Everybody knows everybody. [...]
