Covid 19 and Nurse Toughness

Saturday, 31 October 2020
by Wilton Paskalis

The topic of health discussions is becoming 'hot news' today because pandemics are still rampant and the number of infected people and deaths is still up and down. This is the major health problem in various countries including Indonesia so that various parties are deployed to overcome the pandemic. Government authorities, government agencies as well as the private sector and the public take their respective roles to inhibit the spread of the virus in an effort to help medical personnel deal with infected patients.

 

People’s awareness to the situation based on a correct understanding of Covid 19 is important, including students, so that they can take the right attitude when responding to news about the pandemic and implement health procedures while being able to educate those around them. Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta as a human resources development institution, especially for students through the 'Health Problems In Indonesia' program opened an online dialogue between students and medical personnel who treat Covid-19-confirmed patients at one of the hospitals in Jakarta.

 

The sharing activity held on Saturday (10/31/2020) through Meet and Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta invited Imelda Dewi Susanti, S,Kep. Ners, who is experienced as a nurse in her home region, West Kalimantan, and as a participant in the Nusantara Sehat program. While still studying in Jogja, Imelda actively participated in Stube HEMAT Yogyakarta activities including being one of the participants of sumba exploring program by doing empowerment for the community in Sumba. Imelda said that she joined as a Covid-19 nurse after completing the Nusantara Sehat program where she was placed at the inland of Poso district. Her call to be a Covid-19 patient nurse came when she saw the patient who was positively confirmed of Covid-19 and her friend who was also infected with the virus. At the same time there was ‘Nusantara Sehat Darurat Covid-19’ program, so she decided to join despite she doubted whether her family supported her, but the call and dedication of a nurse encouraged her to register and finally she was accepted with the placement in Jakarta.

 

 

This sharing revealed the dynamics and struggles faced when she is working to treat Covid-19 patients. Imelda said that fundamentally her task is not much different from nurses who treat patients, but the difference is the use of personal protective equipment (PPE), SOP Covid-19 and self-health management demand to be in superfine condition. She recounted when she treated Covid-19 patients with comorbid diseases, it needed extra attention, in which medical measures were taken to treat his illness and vitamin intake to improve immunity. Unluckily, the patient's family can not accompany, so it is the nurse who takes care the patient, so that the nurse not only treats, delivers medication and monitors, but also accompanies, listens to their story as a therapy to relieve the anxiety. Fear and anxious will affect the physical condition and other organs of the patient’s body. The Covid-19-confirmed patient is treated indoors and monitored intensively with certain health procedure, while patients without symptoms and have self-isolation are treated differently, they can do outdoor activities such as exercising, sunbathing in the morning, and having vitamins to improve their immunity.

 

Indeed, Covid-19 has no antivirus yet, however it is not necessary to respond excessively, just doing health procedures properly, including maintaining a healthy and clean lifestyle, positive and optimistic thinking. This dialogue touched every heart and enlightened students' insights how to behave in the midst of the pandemic, not by panicking to respond to the news without clear source, but being wise to digest the information received, starting from ownself and inviting people around to follow health protocols.***




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Bringing Students Closer to Health Problems

Wednesday, 28 October 2020
by Thomas Yulianto

Indonesia is vulnerable in handling health problems due to various situations such as limited health facilities, competent medical personnel, poor understanding of health and low discipline of healthy living among society, while the potential people who may be infected with the disease exceeds the ability to overcome it. Nowadays with the case of Covid-19 becomes a red signal for all of us, so that people should be more aware of the importance of health for themselves and others and it makes us learn that humans can not live alone and it is proven that the infection occurs globally as a pandemic.

 

 

Health challenges in Indonesia must be responded not only by those working in health but everyone is responsible for it, including students, so that Stube HEMAT Yogyakarta designed the Health Problems program in Indonesia to help students understand health problems in Indonesia with adequate information related to these health problems and having insight and knowledge how to solve them. The training was held online on Tuesday, October 27, 2020 so that students from various regions in Indonesia could participate, with the theme ‘Reality of Health Problems in Indonesia’ with Sukendri Siswanto, S.Pd.M.Kes, head of the Primary Health Division of CD Bethesda as the speaker. It is recorded that there are several student participants from Sumatra, Java, NTT, Maluku and Sulawesi.

 

 

Sukendri began the discussion by raising the question, why does the health of people at the past look better than the present? While the condition of the community, knowledge and health facilities today is more complete than the condition at the past.  Well, there are various factors that affect health, a health expert named H.L Blum mentioned that the health status of the public or individual is influenced by four main factors namely Environment, Behavior, Health Services and Genetics (Offspring). These four factors become a challenge in Indonesia especially geographically with thousands of islands so that the distribution of health facilities is not evenly distributed for each sub-district, such as health center services and general practitioners. Another challenge is the need to increase public awareness to behave in a healthy life, such as the availability of clean water, toilet facilities and household sanitation. Other topics include the importance of adequate nutrition and nutrition, including exclusive breast milk for infants, as well as complementary breast milk foods to support their growth.

 

 

The discussion opened students' mind to the reality of health problems in Indonesia, even though it is only on the surface, students will do further steps by having groups according to their home region and mapping  health problems that occur in their respective regions. From the findings, students will be accompanied to analyze health problems, as well as to bring up ideas or actions that can be done as the response to the problems.***

 

 

 


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Together Against Pandemic (The Covid-19 Task Force of Regional Disaster Management Agency of Yogyakarta Special Region)

Monday, 26 October 2020
by Sarlota Wantaar

 

 

The prevention of Covid 19 inevitably requires the determination of one heart of all people in the society to fight it along with all the consequences in the New Normal system, the new living order. Stube HEMAT Yogyakarta as a student assistance institution in Yogyakarta has program focusing on Health Problems in Indonesia and had a discussion with BPBD (Regional Disaster Management Agency) of Yogyakarta Special Teritory Province (DIY) which is responsible as the Operation Support Post of The Task Force Handling Covid-19 in the Special Region of Yogyakarta at Pendopo Wisma Pojok Indah, Condongcatur on October 24, 2020. Twenty students from various regions in Indonesia attended the discussion. In the opening session,  Rev. Bambang Sumbodo, board-in-charge of Stube HEMAT, revealed that the Covid-19 pandemic had a negative impact, however, the positive impact is that humans are forced back into nature because nature awaits us, humans and nature have a close relationship like human relationship with God, and human with human. It triggers individual and shared awareness of how to behave cleanly and healthy because health becomes everyone's need both spiritually and physically.

 

 

The material on Adaptation of New Habits as a pandemic response was presented by Endro Sambogo from BPBD DIY Quick Reaction Team. He explained how to live in a new normal during pandemic conditions. Slowly the activity of the community is starting to move but it can not be the same as the situation before the pandemic, this means that the community must have a new life behavior now, a new environment and a new mindset. New order with new habits and behaviors are based on adaptation to get used to this clean and healthy living behavior that’s called new normal, by washing hands with soap, wearing a mask when we are going out, having a safe distance and not being in the crowds. To realize the new normal scenario, the government has now partnered with relevant parties including community leaders and experts to formulate protocols or standard of operational procedure to ensure people can re-engage, but remain safe from COVID-19. This protocol is not only in economics, but also in education and religion life, depending on the epidemological aspects of each region, so that the additional number of positive cases can be suppressed.

 

Endro explained the 'mourning' activity (visiting when someone dies), that in fact the dangerous or risky conditions were not the bodies but from the interaction of family members and mourners, as well as the crowds in the cemetery. The susceptible condition also occurs when people exposed to the virus have congenital diseases, such as hypertension, heart, asthma, lung and some other diseases. Currently, awareness needs to be increased due to the presence of a symptomless person (OTG), i.e. a person who has been exposed to the virus but does not show symptoms of pain because he/she has strong immunity and feels fine. OTG will infect others who have weak immune, so inevitably everyone should wear masks, wash their hands, keep their distance and avoid crowds. It should be done in a disciplined way.

 

Such opportunity to have dialogue with the person who is directly involved to handle Covid 19 in the DIY stirred participants to express their curiosity about people who were exposed to the virus but showed no symptoms of pain. There are also people who have excessive anxiety of being exposed to the virus so that the person over acts.  Endro revealed that Covid 19 is a flu virus that easily infects humans and the virus also continues to mutate so that Covid 19 has no anti-virus. When a person is exposed to this virus but the condition of immunity is strong, the person will not hurt, but he/she can transmit to others. So, we must be conscious to implement clean and healthy behaviors in order to protect others. Related to over actions, it happens because people's understanding is not complete about this pandemic, that actually this virus does not fatally cause death, but the congenital diseases that exacerbate the condition, so that there are complications. Worse, the influential media builds a scary 'image' of this Covid 19 case.

 

 

At the end of the session, Endro reminded participants as young people and students who have learned more about the Covid 19 pandemic, should apply new habits, clean and healthy living behaviors, while providing proper education about Covid 19 to people nearby, such as at the boarding house, at the campus, and for their families, so that the spread of Covid 19 can be suppressed and the community can do activities comfortably. ***





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