RE-USE OF SINGLE USE MEDICAL DEVICES: PERCEPTIONS AMONG LATIN AMERICAN HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS

Patients contact a myriad of different health care personnel in their trek through the American health care system. In the 1950s on the numerous TV shows about medicine, it was easy to discern “who was who” in the health care cast of characters in these portrayals. The physicians, like Dr. Kildare, were always male, clean cut and serious looking. Nurses wore starched white dresses with nursing caps and distinctive pins; they instantly obeyed the doctor’s orders (including the one to make the doctor a cup of coffee). For better or worse it is a different world now than it was in the 1950s. Social role changes will soon have the doctors being mostly female and a large number of the nurses being male, no one wears a starched white dress, and any health care worker of any gender can have hair of any length, ear-rings and usually will be dressed in the generic scrub suit with white running shoes that has come to signify the American health care worker. Needless to say it is difficult to tell “who is who” in the health care system today by appearance. The stereotypical health care professional role identification related to dress is largely a thing of the past. So how do health care professionals distinguish themselves? Is it in roles, actions or responsibility?

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Building Interprofessional Frameworks Through Educational Reform

Journal of Chiropractic Education ◽

10.7899/1042-5055-25.1.38 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 25 (1) ◽

pp. 38-43 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Rahim Karim

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Patient Care ◽

Educational Reform ◽

Health Care Professionals ◽

Health Care Education ◽

Interprofessional Care ◽

The North ◽

Collaborative Models ◽

American Health Care ◽

Curricular Models

The North American health care sector is being reformed to enhance collaboration among health care professionals to render patient care and improve outcomes. Changing educational frameworks will play a key role in achieving this goal. It is therefore important to gain an understanding of the application of interprofessional health care education and collaborative models of education. Chiropractic and other health care faculties would need to have an effective understanding and clarification of the characteristics of interprofessional care and its foundation in education from which appropriate educational and curricular models could be developed.

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Sterilization of health care products. Liquid chemical sterilizing agents for single-use medical devices utilizing animal tissues and their derivatives. Requirements for characterization, development, validation and routine control of a sterilization process for medical devices

10.3403/30157766 ◽

2011 ◽

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Medical Devices ◽

Animal Tissues ◽

Single Use ◽

Sterilization Process ◽

Liquid Chemical

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Sterilization of health care products. Liquid chemical sterilizing agents for single-use medical devices utilizing animal tissues and their derivatives. Requirements for characterization, development, validation and routine control of a sterilization process for medical devices

10.3403/30363975 ◽

2021 ◽

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Medical Devices ◽

Animal Tissues ◽

Single Use ◽

Sterilization Process ◽

Liquid Chemical

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“Exercise is Medicine” in Latin America: training health care professionals in physical activity prescription

Swiss Sports & Exercise Medicine ◽

10.34045/ssem/2014/15 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 62 (2) ◽

Keyword(s):

Physical Activity ◽

Health Care ◽

Clinical Practice ◽

Latin American ◽

Health Care Professionals ◽

Sports Medicine ◽

Positive Impact ◽

Training Experience ◽

Before And After ◽

Long Term Impact

Health care professionals (HCPs) play an important role promoting healthy habits to patients, yet they lack knowledge, training and self-efficacy to effectively prescribe physical activity (PA). In 2011, the “Exercise is Medicine” Latin American Regional Center developed a one-day (8 hours) in-person course on PA and exercise prescription for HCPs, with theoretical and practical components. Contents include evidence-based health benefits of PA, screening for major risk factors, key behavioral change strategies, basic exercise testing, and prescription and referrals principles. Participants take a multiple-choice evaluation before and after the training. Those who score 80% or higher in the final evaluation receive an international certification endorsed by the American College of Sports Medicine. Since 2013, they also report current PA habits and counselling in clinical practice at the beginning of the course. Sustainability of this initiative, including free enrollment of participants, has been achieved with the support from the industry, scientific societies, and sports and exercise authorities. As of October 2013, 40 courses have been carried out in 15 cities and 7 countries of the region. A total of 1206 HCP have participated (26.4% general practitioners, 47.8% specialists, 20% other HCP), and 625 physicians have been certificated. Participants scored, on average, 20% higher in the final versus the initial evaluation. In total, 379 participants completed the questionnaire, 61.2% of which reported to currently comply with international PA level recommendations. Also, 52.2% and 57.5% reported to always assess or recommend PA in their clinical practice. The overall quality of the course was scored 4.5 out of 5. Participants have shared personal testimonies, stating the positive impact of the training experience on their own personal exercise habits and clinical practice. This course is a promising strategy to help incorporate PA promotion in health care settings. Evaluation of its medium and long-term impact is in progress.

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