KENAIKAN PANGKAT

on Thursday, October 22, 2009

TAHNIAH
Persatuan Pegawai Kerja Sosial Perubatan Malaysia mengucapkan tahniah kepada warga kerja Pegawai Kerja Sosial Perubatan yang telah berjaya dinaikkan pangkat dari GRED S41 KE GRED S44 berkuatkuasa 1 OKTOBER 2009. Di antara Pegawai tersebut adalah seperti berikut :

1.ISMAIL NASARUDIN BIN ABD. KADIR
HOSPITAL TUANKU JA’AFAR, SEREMBAN

2.NORHASIFAH BINTI MD. ISA
HOSPITAL PAKAR SULTANAH FATIMAH, MUAR

3.NORZILA BINTI HASSAN
HOSPITAL SULTANAH NUR ZAHIRAH, KUALA TERENGGANU

4.NOR ASMAWATI BINTI MOHAMAD ALI ABDUL RAHMAN
HOSPITAL SENTOSA, SARAWAK

5.WAN MOHD AMINUDDIN BIN WAN ISMAIL
HOSPITAL LIKAS, SABAH

6.RIZAWATI BINTI SAMSURY
HOSPITAL SULTAN HAJI AHMAD SHAH, TEMERLOH

7.MOHD FAISHAL BIN ISMAIL UDIN
HOSPITAL KUALA LUMPUR

8.HAMZAH BIN SULAIMAN
HOSPITAL TENGKU AMPUAN RAHIMAH, KLANG

9.AMIZAH BINTI ABDULLAH HASHIM
HOSPITAL MELAKA

10.NORMADINIATUL SHIDA BINTI MOHD HAIDIN
HOSPITAL RAJA PERMAISURI BAINUN, IPOH

11.ARMIESAL ASILATI BINTI AHAMAD
HOSPITAL PULAU PINANG, PULAU PINANG

12.NORDIN BIN MANAP
HOSPITAL TUANKU FAUZIAH, KANGAR

13.ANUAR BIN LONG
HOSPITAL SULTANAH BAHIYAH, ALOR SETAR

14.FOIZI BIN ISMAIL
HOSPITAL RAJA PEREMPUAN ZAINAB II, KOTA BHARU

15.NORLIJA BINTI KASSIM
HOSPITAL TENGKU AMPUAN AFZAN, KUANTAN

16.LULIN ANAK NYALU
HOSPITAL SIBU, SARAWAK

17.ROSALINA BINTI SABIRIN
HOSPITAL SUNGAI BULOH, SELANGOR

18.AINUL NAJWA SARANEE ABDULLAH
HOSPITAL SULTANAH AMINAH, JOHOR BAHRU

Cadangan Bagi Menambahbaik Blog Persatuan

on Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Diminta para Warga kerja Jabatan Kerja Sosial Perubatan di seluruh Malaysia agar dapat menyumbangkan idea dan kemahiran didalam menambahbaik website blog Persatuan Pegawai Kerja Sosial Perubatan Malaysia.
Sebarang idea dan kemahiran bolehlah menghubungi En. Mohamad Yunus Bin Hj. So'oib di talian 03-26155964 atau emailkan kepada m.yunus@hkl.moh.gov.my .
Semoga dengan sumbangan yang pihak anda berikan dapat dimanfaatkan kepada semua anggota warga kerja Jabatan Kerja Sosial Perubatan Malaysia.

Sekian,
Terima Kasih

KURSUS KEMAHIRAN ASAS KAUNSELING 1/2009

on Sunday, June 21, 2009


TARIKH : 28 - 30 JUN 2009
TEMPAT : YAYASAN PUSAT BELIA ANTARABANGSA, BANDAR TUN RAZAK, KUALA LUMPUR.

Terapi Muzik

on Saturday, June 20, 2009

Definisi:

Terapi muzik adalah alternatif dalam rawatan moden dan satu bidang profesional yang menggunakan muzik bertujuan untuk pemulihan, pemeliharaan dan peningkatan taraf kesihatan mental serta fizikal. Ia adalah satu teknik klinikal dan evidence -based yang dijalankan oleh pakar dan berdasarkan kepada fakta-fakta hasil kajian.

Kajian-Kajian Lepas:

Kajian-kajian lepas menunjukkan bahawa muzik klasik karya Mozart misalnya boleh digunakan untuk mengurangkan penderitaan pesakit (mengurangkan tekanan).

Perubahan dari segi kognitif, sosial dan emosi mampu dicapai melalui teknik muzik tertentu. Malah kini terdapat seramai 6,000-10,000 pakar terapi muzik terlatih di seluruh dunia dan sedia memberi perkhidmatan kepada masyarakat terutama yang menghadapi trauma, gangguan emosi, terencat akal, ketegangan, penyakit kanser, juga AIDS.

Matlamat Terapi Muzik

i) memulihkan kekuatan fizikal
ii) menyediakan pesakit dalam keadaan bersedia menanggung kesakitan akibat rawatan
iii) memberi sokongan emosi kepada pesakit dan keluarga
iv) memberi peluang kepada mereka meredakan ketegangan perasaan dan fikiran

Teknik Terapi Muzik

Teknik Penafsiran Klinikal Khusus- melalui teknik ini, pakar terapi akan menjalankan program muzik terapi membabitkan teknik mendengar pilihan muzik tertentu, memainkan alat muzik, menyanyi, perbincangan lirik muzik, mengarang dan mengubah lagu, membuat persembahan berkumpulan, hipnosis muzik, menari atau melukis menggunakan muzik.

Muzik adalah satu getaran tenaga bunyi. Gegaran tenaga bunyi bergetar pada tahap-tahap yang berbeza. Tenaga yang serupa juga wujud dalam tubuh dan minda manusia. Sekiranya getaran tenaga bunyi boleh bergetar seiringan dengan tenaga dalam badan kita, muzik boleh dianggap sebagai ubat yang memulihkan.

Terdapat 7 sistem kalenjar dalam badan manusia, tujuh warna dalam spektrum dan tujuh nota dalam skala muzik. Setiap warna dan setiap nota mempunyai satu getaran atau tahap tenaga yang unik yang merangsang pusat tenaga pada minda dalam caranya yang unik, rangsangan yang sama ini akan disusuli ke dalam tubuh kita. Apabila kita terdedah pada getaran-getaran ini, neuroendokrin dan sistem imunasi kita akan diperkukuhkan dan disucikan. Pusat keseronokan dalam otak kita juga memberikan rangsangan untuk merembeskan endorfin, iaitu penenang kesakitan semulajadi badan.

Tekanan hidup selalunya akan menyebabkan himpitan antara kalenjar-kalenjar thymus dan ini mengakibatkan pengurangan tenaga dalam tubuh seseorang. Dengan menggunakan terapi warna dan muzik untuk merangsang dan meningkatkan fungsi kalenjar-kalenjar thymus, kita akan mengalami sejenis kepuasan mengalir ke semua deria kita sekaligus meringankan tekanan.

Kesimpulan

Muzik mengidentifikasikan kewujudannya dengan gelombang-gelombang tenaga dalam badan dan persekitaran kita. Seringkali apabila kita mendengar sebuah lagu walau apapun genrenya, tidak kira sama ada ia klasikal, melodik, atau rock sekalipun, ia mencipta satu perubahan secara tiba-tiba dalam tahap emosi kita. Beberapa lagu yang kita anggapkan nostalgik mempunyai sejenis kuasa magnetik yang hebat berjalinan dengan ingatan kita dan ia selalu membawa kita kembali pada satu masa yang telah hilang selamanya, ia juga melahirkan sejenis perasaan yang kita merasakan kita telah kehilangan sesuatu, jadi tak hairanlah kadangkala kita menitiskan air mata apabila terkenangkan saat-saat tersebut.


Sumber: Dr. Sharol Lai Sujak (2008), Terapi Muzik, (Majalah Pentas Jld. 3 Bil. 2
April-Jun 2008)

Social Support In Medical Rehabilitation

Definition:

Social support is defined as the availability of other persons in the environment who can offer:

i) emotional support
ii) financial or material help
iii) a listening ear
iv) guidance or
v) encouragement

Social support has been associated with:

i) increased self-esteem
ii) coping
iii) adjustment for individuals with disabilities

Evidence

Evidence suggests that social support plays a strong preventative and palliative role in a wide range of physical and medical conditions.

i) Rintala et al- found that the amount of social support was directly related to a sense of life satisfaction and well-being in patients with spinal cord injury.

ii) Hardy et al and Kaplan- found that high social support was predictive of a return to vocational functioning after rehabilition.

Conclusion:

Social support can be used to enhance treatment and promote patient compliance.



Source: Pat Precin (2007), Influence Of Psychosocial Factors On Rehabilitation (Pages 52)

MESYUARAT PEMURNIAN SOP PEGAWAI KERJA SOSIAL PERUBATAN MALAYSIA TAHUN 2009

on Wednesday, June 3, 2009



Ahli Jawatankuasa Mesyuarat Pemurnian SOP (Standard Operation Procedure) Pegawai Kerja Sosial Perubatan Malaysia Bil1/2009
Tarikh : 28-30 Mei 2009
Tempat : Puteri Resort, Melaka

About Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury & Brain Injury

on Sunday, May 17, 2009

ABOUT TRAUMATIC SPINAL CORD INJURY & BRAIN INJURY

Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury (TSCI)

-is a low-incidence, high-cost disability requiring tremendous changes in an individual's lifestyle. Divided into two- traumatic injuries and nontraumatic damage.

Traumatic injuries caused of accidents involving motor vehicles (45.6%), falls (19.6%), acts of violence (17.8%), recreational sports injuries (10.7%) and other (6.3%).

NonTraumatic damage caused of disease or pathological influence such as vascular malfunctions (arteriovenous malformation (AVM), thrombosis, embolus, or hemorrhage), vertebral subluxations secondary to rheumatoid arthritis or degenerative joint disease, infections such as syphilis or tranverse myelitis, spinal neoplasms, syringomyelia, abscesses of the spinal cord and neurological diseases such as multiple sclerosis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Two functional categories- Tetrapelgia and Paraplegia.

Tetrapelgia- complete paralysis of all four extremities and trunk, including the respiratory muscles, and results from lesions of the cervical cord.

Paraplegia- complete paralysis of all or part of trunk and both lower extremities, resulting from lesions of the thoracic or lumbar spinal cord or cauda equina.

Impairment Scale- ASIA ( American Spinal Cord Injury Association) Impairment scale:

ASIA A- Complete- No motor or sensory functions is preserved in the sacral segments Sacral 4 (S4) to Sacral 5 (S5)

ASIA B- Incomplete- Sensory but not motor function is preserved below the neurological level and includes the sacral segments S4 to S5

ASIA C- Incomplete- Motor function is preserved below the neurological level, and more than half of key muscles below the neurological level have a muscle grade less than 3

ASIA D- Incomplete- Motor function is preserved below the neurological level, and at least half of key muscles below the neurological level have a muscle grade of 3 or more.

ASIA E- Normal- Motor and sensory function is normal.


Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

- The patient with TBI is treated across a wide continuum of care, which includes hospitalization, rehabiltaion centers, community reentry programs, outpatient therapy, schools, vocational rehabilitation and assisted living centers.

-Cause- motor vehicles accidents (50%), falls (25%) , assaults and violence (15%) and sports & recreation (10%).
- Men are injured more often than woman.
- Ages 15-25 years old.

- The economic impact of TBI is substantial, for both the individual and society. For examples in The United States- annual cost of acute care and rehabilitation for new brain injuries is about 9-10 billion.

- Because there is no cure for a brain injury, it is important that health care professionals become involved in preventative measures. This may involve community outreach and education hifh-risk groups, particularly teenagers.



Source: Susan B & Thomas J: Physical Rehabilitation, 5th Edition, 2007,
F.A Davis Company, Philadelphia.

Definisi Penjagaan Paliatif Untuk Pesakit Kronik

on Monday, May 11, 2009

Penjagaan atau rawatan paliatif ini merangkumi penjagaan semenjak pesakit dimasukkan ke wad di hospital sehinggalah penjagaan pesakit di rumah.

Banyak kes menyaksikan bagaimana ramai pesakit kanser yang terbiar dan terlantar tanpa sebarang usaha-usaha untuk mengurangkan mengurangkan penderitaan mereka malah pesakit-pesakit ini akan meninggal dalam keadaan yang menyedihkan.

Kaedah rawatan yang bertujuan untuk mengurangkan penderitaan pesakit kanser yang berada pada peringkat akhir ataupun yang tidak boleh disembuhkan lagi dinamakan Penjagaan@ Rawatan Paliatif.

Penjagaan ini bermaksud penjagaan holistik yang merangkumi rawatan melegakan masalah fizikal, sosial dan psikologi pesakit.

Pesakit-pesakit yang dimaksudkan ialah pesakit-pesakit yang mengidap penyakit kronik yang serius dan tidak ada peluang untuk sembuh. Antaranya ialah penyakit buah pinggang dan lain-lain.

Namun begitu, penjagaan ini sinonim dengan penyakit kanser. Penjagaan ini telah lama bertapak di negara kita dan telah wujud di beberapa buah hospital kerajaan dan swasta. Ianya dikendalikan oleh petugas-petugas yang datangnya dari pelbagai latar belakang termasuk bekas-bekas pesakit itu sendiri.

Hampir semua, hospital-hospital besar milik kerajaan mempunyai pusat rawatan paliatif. Ianya dikendalikan oleh pegawai perubatan yang bertugas, jururawat dan sukarelawan-sukarelawan yang berminat. Di tempat-tempat tertentu, pusat ini juga dipanggil Hospis.

Secara amnya, penjagaan paliatif merangkumi aspek fizikal, mental (psikologi) dan juga sosial, dengan itu, ia memerlukan penglibatan semua pihak seperti Pegawai Perubatan, Jururawat, Pegawai Kerja Sosial Perubatan, Pakar Psikiatri dan yang paling penting adalah penglibatan ahli-ahli keluarga terdekat pesakit.

MEDICAL SOCIAL WORKERS

on Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Introduction

The Department of Medical Social Work in Hospital Kuala Lumpur provides a comprehensive and effective medical social work service at both in-patient and outpatient levels for patients and their families. In the modern era of varied and complex diseases for which the medical science is unable to find remedies, the functions of Medical Social Worker attains much importance. Our Medical Social Worker with their knowledge of the dynamics of human behaviour as well as skills in establishing purposeful relations tries to know the patient as a ‘person’, his socio-economic conditions, his attitude towards health problems, his relationship with the family, taps community resources and acts as a liaison between the patient and community. Our service will provides oil that enables the complicated hospital machinery to move smoothly and eficiently, assists the patients to have that peace of mind that allows them to benefit the full from medical and surgical care, and providing the important liaison with community that results in good public relations and the most effective use of resources.


Vision
To provide a caring, efficient and effective social service to help patients cope with their problems that interfere with their health.

Mission
Our mission is “to enhance human well-being and help meet the basic human needs of all people”

Objectives
To help the patients solve their problems which directly or indirectly affect their medical condition while in the hospital;
To promote continuity of family relationships and to prevent family maladjustment and disorganization during and after illness;
To assist the doctor and other team members gain an understanding of the socio-behavioral and economic situation of patients and their families in order to arrive at a holistic approach to diagnosis and treatment;
andTo help patients and their families in their rehabilitation during confinement and after discharge by skillful use of their own resources, those of the agency and those of the community.

Continuing Medical Social Work Education (CMSWE)

The department has a regular CMSWE program on every Wednesday at 9.00 am to 10.30 am. It's normally presented by medical social workers and chaired by a head of department.Topics presented include clinical medical social work cases, service and support programmes and medical social work challenges.

Department Training and Research Activities
Courses:
1. Post-graduate and graduate training.
2. Autonomy and professional activities of social workers in hospital and primary health care setting.
3. Post basic Medical Social Workers in interdisciplinary expectations of the Medical Social Worker in the hospital setting .
4. Post basic Medical Social Work in discharge planning.
5. Medical Social Work collaboration / implications for professional identity, roles and relationship.
6. Responding to psychosocial needs / Physician perceptions of their referrel practices for hospitalized patients.
7. Social work in restructuring hospitals / meeting the challenge.

Ongoing Departmental Research Studies
1. Patients satisfaction.
2. Satisfaction among Medical Social Workers in Malaysia.
3. Unmarried mothers and coping skills.
4. Counseling women with Breast Cancer- a psychological approach.
5. An exploratory study of the inter-organisational relations among health/residential long term care services for the elderly.
6. The Kuala Lumpur Hospital Medical Social Workers self-efficacy scale



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