viernes, 13 de noviembre de 2009

Challenges in my discipline

Today I have to talk about important chllenges that my discipline, Obstetrics, is currently facing, specifically about technology, social matters and education.
Midwives needs many technological objects, like instruments to take the pressure, stethoscopes to detect heart beats, ultrasound to listen the baby, etc. It is necessary that these instruments be modern, they have to be renewed over time. The technology advances are progressing very fast, so the health facilities need to keep up with these advances to provide better care to the patients. However, many health facilities don´t have the necessary resources to afford these instruments, so they can´t progress in technology matters and reach an improvement with the patient´s health. The government has to deal with this problem NOW.
If we talk about social matters and education in Obstetrics, we have to mention the lack of interest that the society,specially the young people,have in the matters related with sexuality, specially in the prevention and sexual education. Most of young pepople prefer doing other staff of their own interest than going to talks and seminars about this theme. This is one reason why there are so many teen parents that have to leave their studies to work and get some money to care they baby, but the biggest problem is that this situation usually happens to people with fewer resources, WHY?....easy, becouse they don´t have money to buy good and reliable condoms, to go to the gynecologist for a check, to acces to a good educaction.
That´s why our rol as future health professionals is so important, we have to create new and more interesting methods of sexual education, so that the young people have interest in this mathers,also the government has to invest in education.
Midwives must be appreciated in its educational role, they have to acquire the necessary tools to be excellent professionals.

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