A Message From Your President

Dear fellow Aquinians ,

I would like to introduce myself again as it has been a while since I've communicated. This was before we had a website to submit our blog.  I am Owen (Owenita) Basco Escalada, Class of 1977 and the president of the AULCNAA. I tried to resign as the president but since I don't have a replacement I still am the president until we hold an election. I am ready and willing to hold this position until then.

I just attended a week-long conference of the Congress of Neuro Surgeons in San Francisco and I am looking forward to the coming changes in health care delivery. Wireless Medicine, including wireless ECG telemetry, vital signs and remote EEG monitoring are in the process of development.  A telesensor is attached to a patient and the physician has the ability to upload these information on their cell phones. By attaching a sensor on a patient's abdomen the physician will be able to get the glucose result every 5 minutes. The military is also improving healthcare delivery to our soldiers through Telemedicine.

I could go on and make a long list of innovative techniques that we as Nurses in the United States have a chance to participate in and make our practice challenging . But the point I'm driving at is our home country, the Philippines is still a third world country especially in the provinces and the remote areas. Health care for everybody is still hard to access and our nursing students don't have the exposure to these innovative techniques . There are still a number of nursing schools that operate purely on monetary gains and not on producing knowledgeable and skilled nurses.

My fellow alumni, we have a responsibility to assist our Alma Mater the Aquinas University College of Nursing Legaspi, to provide our expertise in any way we can. Please include in your agenda when you hold your yearly class reunions, projects to help the College of Nursing. Menchu Calisin has listed activities that you can do to help the college. Please check out her blog(s). But nurses are known for creativeness and resourcefulness that I'm pretty sure all of you will have more ideas.

Let's not forget our College of Nursing because the foundation that we got from our school is what made us what we are now.

Owen Basco Escalada
oesca@comcast.net