Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:57:47+01:0011 October, 2016|
According to an European study made in collaboration with the Swedish Universities of Gothenburg and Borås, patients admitted in intensive care units are subject to levels of noise that exceed the recommended by the WHO for such spaces. The results have been collected under the title: "Noise in the ICU patient room – Staff knowledge and clinical improvements" Patients were asked [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:57:48+01:008 October, 2016|
Hola a todos, mis queridos amigos. Today is October 8th, and we celebrate the Worldwide and Hospice Palliative Care Day, and although I'm not very friend of "The global day of...", we all should be support this issue because is very interesting for all. Just a month ago, the Spanish Society for Palliative Care (SECPAL) presented its Palliative Care Awareness [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:57:48+01:004 October, 2016|
Although death is part of life, it does not leave of be a hum that transits the daily hospital turning in something that we intend to avoid because it faces to us the flavor of failure. Nursing have an important participation at the end of the life as in the direct and constant care of the patient dying and the [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:57:48+01:001 October, 2016|
A few months ago I did a proposal to improve the stay of families in the ICU: "Changing waiting rooms for living rooms" The Hospital Universitario de Torrejón and the IC-HU Project got in touch with me to make this change. It was for my all an honor that the first Hospital interested in taking this step is the [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:57:49+01:0030 September, 2016|
Hola a todos, my dear friends. Noise maybe is something invisible in the ICU. And although we have spoken of it here or here, I have the feeling of that we have last of tiptoe, almost without making noise. We are not aware of how alarms affects our patients, or how professionals are exposed in our day to day to [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:57:49+01:0029 September, 2016|
I believe that the first step is to understand that despite we are human beings we are not always humanized, because humanize is a mode of being, living, interacting, growing us, moving us and traveling to the inside, to experience life in another way. All of us want to be older, but we could have best moments, and create highlights [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:57:49+01:0028 September, 2016|
It is brave to tackle a topic as death in a documentary, which has ceased to be a part of our everyday experience (but not in our destiny, what else we would like!). Our culture has finished hiding so essential moment, that used to be another social event. First relegating it to the intimacy of the family. Then, inadvertently, leaving [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:57:49+01:0027 September, 2016|
In the IC-HU Project (Humanizing Intensive Care) we are independent, passionate and have one thing very clear: our goal is to help making health care more kind for people and health environments the more livable as possible. In all the senses. For their users. For the professionals who care for the users. Nothing more and nothing less. And this project [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:57:50+01:0022 September, 2016|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. A history of changing room.This #benditalocura (holy madness) that has mobilized thousands of people and has put hads up half world by #humaniza and the H was born there. I was talking with Victor about the project, the recent travels and all this impact, Iand he said: "Gabi, have you seen that icon of [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:57:50+01:0021 September, 2016|
Anyone who knows me doesn´t be surprise if I begin this post with a proverb: "It is a trait of the high-born to be grateful". The unique claim of these words is to honor to all those intensive care professionals (intensivists, nurses, assistants, cleaners, secretaries and guards) who have preceded us in the work of "the critical patient care"; many [...]
