The Prince of Asturias Hospital presented their best efforts in nursing.

Spain, December of 2011- the address of nurses of the Hospital Universitario Prince of Asturias organized a new edition of the nosocomial workshops to disseminate the actions of professional nurses in the health centre in the areas health care, teaching and research launched in 2011. This year the meeting focused on the humanization in care, the scientific contribution and international collaboration nurse.

The work of professionals in the care of the patient implies the permanent updating of consensual work protocols, continuing training for nurses and the implementation of the results of innovative projects in health care. The Prince of Asturias University Hospital organized the V Jornadas Intrahospitalarias of nursing around round tables on the humanization in care, the scientific contribution and international collaboration nurse.

The round table humanization in care ” has included lectures on change in the way of working professionals dislodgement and maternal and child health areas, after the demand for women for a new kind of assistance in childbirth and on the involvement of the personal nurse for hospitalization in the improvement of care provided with individualized for each patient and comfort during entry plans. In addition, he spoke of implantation in the Centre of the project promotion of breastfeeding.

Logoterapeutas, physiotherapists and occupational therapists of the rehabilitation service teach patients to cope with limitations in activities of their daily life due to severe mobility disturbances by sequelae of brain damage, cancer patients or spinal cord injuries. The day was explained the humanization of care in situations incompatible with life, when medical care is carried out in an environment of emotional impact for the patient and for professionals serving you.

Scientific contributions nurses

A study on the influence of acupuncture was presented at the time of placental detachment, based on a sample of new women giving birth at the hospital. And evalúo the improvement in cognitive skills of 130 chronic mental patients included in programme continuity care with the inclusion in its routine of healthy lifestyle habits. Moreover, we presented a research paper on the implementation of time standard in the process of sterilization of surgical material.

The hospital coordinates the participation of hospitals in the community of Madrid in a multicenter international study severe skin lesions associated with medications, such as toxic epidermal necrolisis or syndrome Stevens-Johns. He is an epidemiological registry of cases and has created a BioBank of biological samples to help identify drugs that cause these reactions and explain how and in what ways are developed.

Presented the results of the implementation of the Manual of host to the Renal patient, a project finalist in the health 2000, that provides understandable information on basic aspects that a kidney patient and their family members should be aware of when it comes to follow his treatment in a chronic hemodialysis program.

International collaboration

Professional nurses of the hospital involved in solidarity projects through NGOs, humanitarian aid missions, improving assistance in depressed areas in Africa or teaching exchange initiatives. The inaugural lecture “The importance of the humanization of the healing process of patient care”, taught by John Curtin, President of the Willow Foundation, is an example of how the humanization of care of the patient is not only important in bioethical terms and humanistic, but crucial to the ability of the patient to recover from an illness.