Health Care Blog

I logged onto Badgerlink in order to find some negative aspect of health care in Norway. I came across an article titled "Connecting With Children" that was published April 11, 2007 in the Nursing Standard magazine.

The article was written by Claire Westwood and mainly discussed how to better nursing and health care for children. Many hospitals in England are unable to deliver high quality health care for children and young people because they aren't properly trained. Nurses and other medical practitioners need to learn how to handle situations involving child illness. When a child is ill parents feel helpless. Part of a nurse's job is making both the child and parent feel comfortable in the health care facility. The article states, "Children and young people are more frequent users of health care than adults. Nearly 700,000 children (7 per cent of all children) spent a night as a hospital inpatient in 2006 and 2.9 million children presented at emergency departments" (62). It's important to provide high quality health care especially to children and young adults. They visit hospitals frequently for different vaccinations and yearly exams and as they grow up they tend to see the doctor less and less. If people are giving high quality health care as children they will be less likely to develop a severe illness or have an illness go unnoticed as adults. This topic isn't discussed in Michael Moore's documentary Sicko.