A toast for the New Year, by Rosa Nieto
2016 begins, again with the customs, the promises we make to ourselves, the review of those 365 days we have just leave. Also in the space alien to time which the ICU is, the New [...]
Yoga and Meditation at IC-HU of Hospital 12 de Octubre
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. Just ending 2015, and we have to give voice to Marisol Martínez, nurse of the Trauma ICU of Hospital Universitario Doce de Octubre and author of the most read [...]
Happy Christmas from IC-HU Project
Dear friends: HAPPY CHRISTMAS! For Christmas, and after the great success of the first concert which was held on April 23rd to celebrate the Diada de Sant Jordi, we have repeated the experience of making [...]
The ideal Neonatal ICU, by Ibone Olza
"In the ideal Neonatal ICU (NICU), psychosocial support to parents and staff will be targets as important as the health and development of infants". Hynan MT & Hall SL. "Introduction:Psychosocial Program Standards for NICU Parents."J [...]
About quality of life, by Félix Martín
Quality of life is a holistic concept (a reality as the sum of everything that composes) open to very different assessments. In classical Greece the best quality of life was lived in the enjoyment of [...]
Put an H in your life
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.Only a few days remain to finish this incredible 2015, which has brought us all parts of Spain, Portugal and Colombia and has allowed us to meet many people in [...]
Healing routines, humanizing routines… By Concha Zaforteza
A few days ago a patient has made me thinking about an aspect of the humanization that healthcare professionals have forgotten. And he is not one patient either: he is Carles Capdevila, journalist and founder [...]
My Wish List, by Mónica Ferrero
Every year at this time I usually write the "my wish list". For my, this is still a moment for thinking very special, but mainly of illusion, as when I was a child. This year [...]
Here they are: 2º National Hospital Optimista Awards
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. Do you know the Hospital Optimista Awards? This brilliant idea looks for to recognize those practices or projects that improve the environment of the patient and the family. It is [...]
Bioethics? That what it is?…By Félix Martín
Bioethics is ethics applied (which has rules) which settles disputes between ethical axioms (which we have concreated in deontology) and ontology (part of metaphysics that is the be general and transcendental properties). It is therefore [...]