Looking After Animals

Looking after YOU

It sounds silly, but we often spend so much time caring for our patients and each other that we forget to care for ourselves. If we don’t look after ourselves it could put us at risk and could lead to a short-term or permanent inability to do our job. We need to do whatever we can as health care professionals to demonstrate to our patients, through our own example, what it means to live a healt...

Molecules after 20 years-looking back and looking forward.

Twenty years—a long time—so what happens after 20 years? Well if you live in New Zealand, according to [1], if you are adopted you can apply to Births, Deaths and Marriages for a copy of your birth certificate to find the names of your birth parents, you can apply to adopt a child who is related to you and you can gamble or work in a casino [1], but more seriously, our 20th anniversary is an ap...

How are we looking after prostate cancer?

Looking after a patient with Alzheimer's disease.

My personal experience of looking after my husband with Alzheimer's disease may, I hope, help others to understand what the carer goes through and the sort of help that is needed. When diagnosis was made I was intensely shocked, but as Hugh was present I had to hide my tears until he was asleep that night. I then spent what seemed like all that night in tears. It felt as I imagine it must if yo...

Looking after young eye patients in hospital

The physical environment It is advisable to have a dedicated ward for children. It should be bright, clean, and colourful. You can use simple drawings to decorate the walls and ceilings. Colourful curtains and bedspreads will also brighten up the ward. If a child is visually impaired, it is necessary to make the area around them as free from obstacles as possible. Checking that the child is pro...