Heart Disease

What career-related subject or topic have you been working on or studying this term?

Since last year I have been working on my thesis project named "Nursing care of patients with Thrombolytic Therapy". This project was born on my personal interest for research in intensive and emergency nursing care and specially for cardiovascular diseases.
It´s about one of the acute myocardial infarction treatment and most useful in chilean public health. Since 2005 was included in the AUGE law, and it´s very important for keeping the people´s health, opportunities and dignity.
The thesis included a qualitative perspective to this treatment.

I introduced myself in this area with the help of my responsible tutor at Universidad de Chile and the emergency nurse managers in Santiago city as well as my own interest in this area, visiting heart deseases websites, papers and investigations.

I would like to know how we could less effectively the heart disease in own country and all the non-transmissible diseases associated with to harmful life styles. Also how we could help for optimizing the nursing practice in the Thrombolytic Therapy , specially listening opinions of all involucrated people, like nurses, doctors, patients and patient´s family.

Some websites in relation with this topic are:

www.americanheart.org
This page belong to American Heart Association (AHA), has all the information about heart diseases, promotion of healthy life styles, prevention, treatments, and also journals and scientific research.

http://www.vascularweb.org/_CONTRIBUTION_PAGES/Patient_Information/NorthPoint/Thrombolytic_Therapy.html
It contain a simple explanation about thrombolytic therapy for all the people non linked with medical area.

My weekend

What exciting things did you do this past weekend?

I went to my first class in the swimming pool, because this semester I have a lot of free time for do it and another sports as well. That day I didn´t know how to bread under and swallowed a lot of water, it was something funny because all the people looked me like "poor girl", anyway I gave my best :)
The rest of the last weekend I took a rest at home with my family, I saw some movies and had a good chat with my friends by msn . Of couse i did practice my english too.
It was a very quiet and long weekend at home.

Nursing

How did you become interested in your area of study? What motivates you to continue learning about your career?

My interest for nursing began in high school, because I always loved the biology and social sciences subjects and this career have relation with that.

When I was acepted in my actual univesity, I was very happy and proud to myself because is very difficult to gain admittance. For this reason I´m always being motivate to continue learning and also for give to the patients the best health care posible.

http://www.codeblog.com/ This is a very funny blog about tales of a nurse and the week of nursing ( 11 may)

http://www.nyu.edu/nursing/news/11-10-05.html To New York school of Nursing, very interesting link for "research in nursing", my favorite area.

Song

I choose a song called "Love is strong" of Rolling Stones. It´s a beautiful rock song for listening when you are falling in love to something, specially when he is overseas. It was record in 1995 and you can find it in the Forty Licks album.

I love this song because is melodic and the lyrics it makes me sense.

LYRICS

Love is strong

and you´re so sweet

You make me hard

you make me weak

Love is strong and youre so sweet

and some day, babe we got to meet

A glimpse of you was all it took

A strangers glance it got me hooked

And I followed you across the stars

I looked for you in seedy bars

What are you scared of, baby

Its more than just a dream

I need some time

We make a beautiful team

Beautiful team

Question 1

What is something you should throw away, but can´t?

I would like to throw away my mobile phone because I hate depends on it, take it all the time and to charge it, but I can´t because is useful, for example when I have a problem and I need to find someone for help.

Anyway when I take a holiday it´s run the risk to disappear.