PROJECT ENTREPRENURSE

PROJECT ENTREPRENURSE
Saving lives
C reating jobs
A dding value

•       Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneur

•       “One who undertakes innovations, in an effort to transform innovations into economic goods”

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

• Multisectoral initiative to promote nurse entrepreneurship by introducing a home health care industry in the 
• Reduce cost of health care
• Bringing primary health care services to poor rural communities
• Maximize employment  opportunities for the country’s unemployed nurses
• Utilize unemployed human resources for the delivery of public health services and achievement of the country’s Millennium development goals on maternal and child health, consistent with  FOURmula One for health frame work of DOH

MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS

•       Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

•       Achieve universal primary education

•       Promote gender equality and empower women

•       Reduce child mortality rate

•       Improve maternal health

•       Combat HIV/AID’S, Malaria and other disease

•       Ensure environmental sustainability

•       Develop a global partnership for development

FOURMULA ONE FOR HEALTH

Over all goals:

•       Better health outcomes

•       More responsive health system

•       More equitable health care financing

General Objective

•       Provide critical reforms to improve Philippine health system

Specific Objectives:

•       HEALTH FINANCING- sustained health investment

•       HEALTH REGULATION-health goods and affordability

•       HEALTH SERVICE DELIVERY-accessibility and availability

•       GOOD GOVERNANCE-Improve health system performance

Project Entrepreneur

Strategy:

•       Form – Cooperatives

•       Manage – Nurse’s clinics

•       Trained and experienced nurses (supervised by)

•       Deploy newly licensed nurses

•       Rural Communities (with little or no access to basic health care)

Multisectoral

•       DOH, Philhealth, DOF, BON, PNA, UP, OHNAP, POF

Project Beneficiaries:

•       HMO - members

•       Philhealth - members

•       Self-paying - patients

•       Convalescent - patients

•       Patients needing long-term

•       Elderly

•       Occupationally disabled

•       Poor rural communities

•       Unemployed nurses

Forms of Nurse Entrepreneur:

•       Medical Transcription Services

•       Public health advocacy

•       Periodic physical examination

•       Hospice

•       Home health care services

•       Health care training management

•       Wellness and fitness management for private companies

•       EMS

•       Tourism health care services

LAUNCHING:

•       January 21-22,2010 at Davao City

PILOT:

•       Davao Regions

•       Davao del Norte

•       Davao del Sur

•       Davao Oriental

•       Compostela Valley

•       Dir. Jalilo dela Torre

•       500 nurses

•       Gov. Rodolfo del Rosario

PILOT-RUN PROCESS FLOW

•       Introduce concept of Nurse Entrepreneurship to unemployed RNs (2 weeks)

•       Core Group of Nurse Coop organization (2 weeks)

•       Register COOP with CDA (1 month)

•       Data gathering / proposal preparation and submission to DOLE (3 weeks)

•       DOLE providers

START-UP capital (2 weeks)

Marketing to LGU and possible donor institutions (1 month)

•       Nurse deployment (1 week)

•       Regular monitoring by regional planning monitoring team (quarter)

•       Pilot implementation evaluation(sem.)

•       Send (200-300 nurses for 6 months to a poor rural communities)

•       Adopt (a nurse cooperative)

•       Donate (to a nurse cooperative)

•       Outsource (delivery Of health services to a nurse cooperative to a nurse cooperative)

Acute Radiation Syndrome Response

Here is a good management procedure in dealing with management of people exposed from radiation. This is Radiation Emergency Medical Management from the U.S.Health and Human Services. I hope this could help medical practitioners especially at this time when there are uncertainties from nuclear reactor explosions from Japan.


Exposure to Radiation

Acute Radiation Syndrome (ARS)- Also Known as Radiation Sickness People exposed to radiation will develop ARS only if all the following are true: The radiation dose was high The radiation was penetrating (i.e., able to reach internal organs, as with x-rays or gamma rays) The person's entire body, or most of it, received the dose The radiation was received in a short time, usually within minutes Clinical severity of the four ARS subsyndromes will vary with dose and host factors: Hematopoietic Gastrointestinal Cutaneous Neurovascular For a detailed information about this response: Visit REMM Website