“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you. When something wonderful happens, you can’t wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in your excitement. They are not embarrassed to cry with you when you are hurting or laugh with you when you make a fool of yourself. Never do they hurt your feelings or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful. There is never any pressure, jealousy or competition but only a quiet calmness when they are around. You can be yourself and not worry about what they will think of you because they love you for who you are. The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever. Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it’s like being young again. Colours seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didn’t exist at all. A phone call or two during the day helps to get you through a long day’s work and always brings a smile to your face. In their presence, there’s no need for continuous conversation, but you find you’re quite content in just having them nearby. Things that never interested you before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon. You open your heart knowing that there’s a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end. Life seems completely different, exciting and worthwhile. Your only hope and security is in knowing that they are a part of your life.”
― Bob Marley
Friday, March 29, 2013
Happy Good Friday!
All the great groups that stood about the Cross represent in one way or another the great historical truth of the time; that the world could not save itself. Man could do no more. Rome and Jerusalem and Athens and everything else were going down like a sea turned into a slow cataract. Externally indeed the ancient world was still at its strongest; it is always at that moment that the inmost weakness begins. But in order to understand that weakness we must repeat what has been said more than once; that it was not the weakness of a thing originally weak. It was emphatically the strength of the world that was turned to weakness and the wisdom of the world that was turned to folly.
In this story of Good Friday it is the best things in the world that are at their worst. That is what really shows us the world at its worst. It was, for instance, the priests of a true monotheism and the soldiers of an international civilisation. Rome, the legend, founded upon fallen Troy and triumphant over fallen Carthage, had stood for a heroism which was the nearest that any pagan ever came to chivalry. Rome had defended the household gods and the human decencies against the ogres of Africa and the hermaphrodite monstrosities of Greece. But in the lightning flash of this incident, we see great Rome, the imperial republic, going downward under her Lucretian doom. Scepticism has eaten away even the confident sanity of the conquerors of the world. He who is enthroned to say what is justice can only ask:
‘What is truth?’ So in that drama which decided the whole fate of antiquity, one of the central figures is fixed in what seems the reverse of his true role. Rome was almost another name for responsibility. Yet he stands for ever as a sort of rocking statue of the irresponsible. Man could do no more. Even the practical had become the impracticable. Standing between the pillars of his own judgement-seat, a Roman had washed his hands of the world.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
In this story of Good Friday it is the best things in the world that are at their worst. That is what really shows us the world at its worst. It was, for instance, the priests of a true monotheism and the soldiers of an international civilisation. Rome, the legend, founded upon fallen Troy and triumphant over fallen Carthage, had stood for a heroism which was the nearest that any pagan ever came to chivalry. Rome had defended the household gods and the human decencies against the ogres of Africa and the hermaphrodite monstrosities of Greece. But in the lightning flash of this incident, we see great Rome, the imperial republic, going downward under her Lucretian doom. Scepticism has eaten away even the confident sanity of the conquerors of the world. He who is enthroned to say what is justice can only ask:
‘What is truth?’ So in that drama which decided the whole fate of antiquity, one of the central figures is fixed in what seems the reverse of his true role. Rome was almost another name for responsibility. Yet he stands for ever as a sort of rocking statue of the irresponsible. Man could do no more. Even the practical had become the impracticable. Standing between the pillars of his own judgement-seat, a Roman had washed his hands of the world.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Yummy Halo Halo
Halo-halo (from Tagalog word halò, "mix") is a popular Filipino dessert that is a mixture of shaved ice and evaporated milk to which are added various boiled sweet beans and fruits, and served in a tall glass or bowl.
Ingredients include boiled kidney beans, garbanzos, sugar palm fruit (kaong), coconut sport (macapuno), and plantains caramelized in sugar, jackfruit (langkâ), gulaman, tapioca, nata de coco, sweet potato (kamote), cheese, pounded crushed young rice (pinipig). In terms of arrangement, most of the ingredients (fruits, beans, and other sweets) are first placed inside the tall glass, followed by the shaved ice. This is then sprinkled with sugar, and topped with either (or a combination of) leche flan, purple yam (ubeng pula), or ice cream. Evaporated milk is poured into the mixture upon serving.
Ingredients include boiled kidney beans, garbanzos, sugar palm fruit (kaong), coconut sport (macapuno), and plantains caramelized in sugar, jackfruit (langkâ), gulaman, tapioca, nata de coco, sweet potato (kamote), cheese, pounded crushed young rice (pinipig). In terms of arrangement, most of the ingredients (fruits, beans, and other sweets) are first placed inside the tall glass, followed by the shaved ice. This is then sprinkled with sugar, and topped with either (or a combination of) leche flan, purple yam (ubeng pula), or ice cream. Evaporated milk is poured into the mixture upon serving.
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Being a CNA
We all understand that until and unless we acquired skills through training, accomplishing a task is a far-distant dream. When it is a nursing job, you can imagine the importance of CNA skills training in the life of a nurse. CNA skills will help them to provide nursing care to patients. A good nursing assistant should have the following skills:
Moving Patients
CNAs have to lift and move patients from time to time. You have to lift them, shift to a wheelchair and take them to the dining hall, operation theater, and testing. You need to do the shifting process even while changing linen. Since patients are already weak, you have to do this work very cautiously so that you do not add any injuries to them and yourself
Hygiene
Patients are not able to perform basic tasks on their own. CNAs should know to brush their hair and teeth, bathe them, clean their hands, and assist them with toileting. It is also necessary to feed patients if they cannot manage it themselves. Besides hygiene, they have to maintain the ward clean and dry.
Working with medical instruments
CNAs have to monitor patients’ conditions. Taking vitals such as temperature, blood pressure, body-sugar level and heartbeat rate are the important CNA job skills. All these necessary details are checked with traditional and modern medical equipments. CNAs should have the skills to use both such instruments since patients’ treatments start after reading the vitals.
Taking and Maintaining Records
CNA job skills should also include recording and maintaining medical information. They should learn how to talk to patients and ask them to provide details about their medical histories. The compiled information is then looked by the doctors, which is the base or source of treatment.
These are few of the important CNA job skills necessary to be with the patients and provide care. The training course they take prepares them to do the job with total precision, patience and accuracy.
Moving Patients
CNAs have to lift and move patients from time to time. You have to lift them, shift to a wheelchair and take them to the dining hall, operation theater, and testing. You need to do the shifting process even while changing linen. Since patients are already weak, you have to do this work very cautiously so that you do not add any injuries to them and yourself
Hygiene
Patients are not able to perform basic tasks on their own. CNAs should know to brush their hair and teeth, bathe them, clean their hands, and assist them with toileting. It is also necessary to feed patients if they cannot manage it themselves. Besides hygiene, they have to maintain the ward clean and dry.
Working with medical instruments
CNAs have to monitor patients’ conditions. Taking vitals such as temperature, blood pressure, body-sugar level and heartbeat rate are the important CNA job skills. All these necessary details are checked with traditional and modern medical equipments. CNAs should have the skills to use both such instruments since patients’ treatments start after reading the vitals.
Taking and Maintaining Records
CNA job skills should also include recording and maintaining medical information. They should learn how to talk to patients and ask them to provide details about their medical histories. The compiled information is then looked by the doctors, which is the base or source of treatment.
These are few of the important CNA job skills necessary to be with the patients and provide care. The training course they take prepares them to do the job with total precision, patience and accuracy.
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