Pastoral care

Each year one in four people aged 15 to 20 will be diagnosed with a mental illness in Canada., but only 25 per cent will seek help. For too long, Todd Devlin was a part of the majority. After dealing with his parents’ divorce and his transition to university, Devlin noticed something different about himself. The McMaster undergraduate stopped attending classes only to sit at home in misery. “In my third year of university, I struggled big time,” said Devlin in an email interview. “There…

HEALTH has many meanings used in different ways. Growing up as a little girl, I always dreamed of pursuing my career after high school in the HEALTH care profession. I wanted to follow in my mother’s footsteps someday to show what a wonderful leader she was in my eyes. Someday knowing I can be whatever I put my mind to be will help others to lead in my footsteps as well. HEALTH can be referred to as the state of being free from illness or injury or a physical and mental state of being. Those…

should have a choice to a health coverage rather than being forced to have coverage or not have one and, pay a penalty. All citizens should have health insurance because it protects them from a medical debt and covers your health and any emergency care. Some citizens believe that they should have the right to decide…

It helps by helping with better health, better care and lower cost. It also promotes community based on the public health places; it improves the efficiency of the health choices program and helps improve the provider experience thru the health choice program. The RFP is a documented, formal procurement…

through all care settings. I complete medication reconciliations on all two day post- discharge calls I make and the number of medication discrepancies I come across is astonishing. Most recently, I called a patient that was discharged from a skilled nursing facility with an illegibly, hand written medication list. This was a heart failure patient who had been started…

any of the three basic childcare needs, namely care for preschool children, out-of-school care for schoolchildren and back-up care. Advice and referral services, for example, can help parents to find care for babies, for children after school or for a child whose usual career is sick. Similarly, workplace arrangements with community facilities can help workers access daycare for babies, holiday camps for school children or babysitters for back-up care. In some workplaces, these solutions can…

Old Dogs Is it inherent to associate the elderly with mothballs and bingo? Is it a natural occurrence in nature for the youth to regard their ancestors as merely artefacts of a generation long gone, remnants of a society brought up by different social values and morals. Where have those beliefs of decades ago gone, where the elderly were considered oracles of wisdom and knowledge? Has the Internet connected us so extensively to the point that we no longer need to know of our own history and…

At the young age of eight, I was introduced to the field of medicine. My mother was a pathologist at a tertiary center in Jeddah. I clearly remember being surrounded by microscopes, slides, and posters of unusual creatures. It exhilarated me watching physicians looking through microscopes and discussing the case thoroughly, reaching up to the most relevant diagnosis. It is quite amusing when I memorize those early days, asking my mother and her colleagues about sophisticated machines and…

Not until he delved into his past was he able to break away from my original impression of him and the other residents. George grew up in foster care his whole life after being abandoned by his mother and sisters at the age of two. After being released from a juvenile correction center for protecting his foster sister from his foster father, he dedicated his life to joining the Airforce. He was…

age of 34 and developed Rheumatoid Arthritis she remained in mobile till she passed at the age of 79. She was the kindest, loving, strong willed woman that I’ve ever known. She lived with my aunt in Long Island, New York. My aunt could no longer take care of her, and my grandmother refused to move to Florida to live with my mother. So we…