How serious is health care today in our society and the world? This question can only be answered by, this may be the most important problem that we face as a community and as a world. Think about disease. If 1 man contracts a disease from an animal. That mans leaves that area to go to another. He then infects others, and those people go their seperate ways only to infect more and more. Soon it is a global empedic and we all die. Now what if 7 of those people did not have health insurance. Now what do we treat them or let them infect the world again? That is a movie punchline, outbreak, but it is feasible.
2) Do you see the problem as getting worse or better? I see the problem stagnating. I have seen benefits given only at the expense of other priviledges. Money has to be spent and that is inevitable.
3) In what ways can individuals take action to help alleviate this problem? Write the politicians to show what problems are not being handled. Walk the line out front of the hospitals or the politians office. Show the media the results of no insurance and what the people look like as they die. It is harsh by maybe in their death the can save others by their publicized death.
December 11, 2005
December 05, 2005
a. My understanding of social problems will help me in many areas, one such as writing appropriate people to get desired results. Before this course I would complain but I had no idea that the problems could best be handled by these elected officials. Not only to write these people but to also follow up with results. Who else will listen to the problems of the hospital? The hospital administration? They are a business just like MSN and if you go to Bill Gates he will tell you whatever for the greater good of his company just like a hospital administrator.
b. When talking to others 6 months ago about health care in America I would often argue on points that were given to me by word of mouth. I heard it and believed it such as how bad health care is in New Mexico. Now I have an understanding of how bad and where our shortfalls are, i.e. lack of nurses and specialized physicians.
c. I learned that the empowered people have a stronger voice then I had originally thought. I used to see picket signs and think that people were wasting time but evidence has clearly shown that a unioned force, such as Albuquerque Fire Department which provides our first line of health care in their paramedics, gets what they want in general.
d. Public demonstrations can work in your advantage, but may also hurt you. Protesting may gain the respect of the "people", but may in turn hurt your credibility and in the long run hang yourself out to dry. Without permission of the union you wouldn’t go far. Nursing strikes have also lead to the outsourcing of nurses from Canada and California in recent years here in Albuquerque.
e. I learned that investigative research is the only way to kill the rumors you hear. People often follow their political group, such as republican or democrat, in whatever view they have. This is like hearing a rumor and spreading it, WMD. Without research there will be no proof.
f. Media can hurt you but they are the best way to spread problems to the people. News crews that have reported about fake nurses or doctors that accidentally kill their patients prevents the general public from trusting them, but what else can you do? Spreading the news of how much money nurses make and how short the hospitals are should in turn boost the nursing population within the hospitals.
g. I would take part; I would take part if I believed strongly in it anyway. Sometimes, as history has shown, demonstrations are the only way to get things done. If my family member depended on it then it would not even be a consideration
b. When talking to others 6 months ago about health care in America I would often argue on points that were given to me by word of mouth. I heard it and believed it such as how bad health care is in New Mexico. Now I have an understanding of how bad and where our shortfalls are, i.e. lack of nurses and specialized physicians.
c. I learned that the empowered people have a stronger voice then I had originally thought. I used to see picket signs and think that people were wasting time but evidence has clearly shown that a unioned force, such as Albuquerque Fire Department which provides our first line of health care in their paramedics, gets what they want in general.
d. Public demonstrations can work in your advantage, but may also hurt you. Protesting may gain the respect of the "people", but may in turn hurt your credibility and in the long run hang yourself out to dry. Without permission of the union you wouldn’t go far. Nursing strikes have also lead to the outsourcing of nurses from Canada and California in recent years here in Albuquerque.
e. I learned that investigative research is the only way to kill the rumors you hear. People often follow their political group, such as republican or democrat, in whatever view they have. This is like hearing a rumor and spreading it, WMD. Without research there will be no proof.
f. Media can hurt you but they are the best way to spread problems to the people. News crews that have reported about fake nurses or doctors that accidentally kill their patients prevents the general public from trusting them, but what else can you do? Spreading the news of how much money nurses make and how short the hospitals are should in turn boost the nursing population within the hospitals.
g. I would take part; I would take part if I believed strongly in it anyway. Sometimes, as history has shown, demonstrations are the only way to get things done. If my family member depended on it then it would not even be a consideration
Posted by Jeremy Miller | 0 comment(s)
October 14, 2005
The problem for New Mexico is evedent on Central. How many homeless do you see when you go get a burrito from the Frontier? I have viited a lot of countries in my life, and i have seen way too many homeless. Over in Europe they are homeless, however they are healthy. Here they are homeless and unhealthy. I am a paramedic and i have treated many homeless, many of which are blind, uncontrolled diabetes, and gang-greened extremities. In my training to be a paramedic i have traveled all over. In New York, homeless call 911 all the time because it means a hot meal and a night off the streets. Albuquerque homeless don't even attempt that as much as any where else that i have been. I am not saying that the medical staff of New Mexcio is less able to treat patients but i certainly believe that the lack of nurses, doctors and paramedics is to blame. This state is 68% short of nurses, and yet UNM nursing is one of the most competitive courses to get in. The last accepting class was 32 people. According to New Mexico Nurses Assos.
While New Mexico currently educates approximately 500 new RNs each year, not all enter the nursing workforce, and still others are attracted to employment in other states. An estimated 2025% of New Mexico's nursing graduates do not work in nursing in New Mexico after graduation.
* It costs approximately 100% of a nurse's annual salary to fill a vacated nursing position. A turnover rate of 16-20% could result in a hospital employing 600 nurses spending $5.5 million a year in replacement costs alone. In the interim it has become routine to rely on "Travel Nurses" contracted through out-of-state agencies, at a cost more than double the average staff nurse salary
We lose out to outside states due to pay which can directly be placed back to state government.
While New Mexico currently educates approximately 500 new RNs each year, not all enter the nursing workforce, and still others are attracted to employment in other states. An estimated 2025% of New Mexico's nursing graduates do not work in nursing in New Mexico after graduation.
* It costs approximately 100% of a nurse's annual salary to fill a vacated nursing position. A turnover rate of 16-20% could result in a hospital employing 600 nurses spending $5.5 million a year in replacement costs alone. In the interim it has become routine to rely on "Travel Nurses" contracted through out-of-state agencies, at a cost more than double the average staff nurse salary
We lose out to outside states due to pay which can directly be placed back to state government.
Posted by Jeremy Miller | 2 comment(s)
September 10, 2005
You'll begin a term long investigation into a social problem as part of a small group (3 or 4) of students working on the problem at the same time, posting to a community weblog. If you haven't already received your social problem and community weblog name, you will soon.
The instructions for week three will take a little time to work through. As always be patient with something new like this (some of you probably already blog, but to most of us this will be new.)
The first assignment is to go to the community weblog you been assigned to and make your first posting. Experiment with your community weblog to see how it works. Throughout the term you'll have assignments which will require posting to your community weblog but don't let that stop you from posting as you explore more information about your social problem and think through the complexities of modern day social problems.
Your weblog allows you to spend more time in depth on a social problem compared to your weekly dealings with a wide variety of problems. And, of course, this is a significant part of your grade.
The instructions for week three will take a little time to work through. As always be patient with something new like this (some of you probably already blog, but to most of us this will be new.)
The first assignment is to go to the community weblog you been assigned to and make your first posting. Experiment with your community weblog to see how it works. Throughout the term you'll have assignments which will require posting to your community weblog but don't let that stop you from posting as you explore more information about your social problem and think through the complexities of modern day social problems.
Your weblog allows you to spend more time in depth on a social problem compared to your weekly dealings with a wide variety of problems. And, of course, this is a significant part of your grade.
Posted by Suzanne Prescott | 2 comment(s)
