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Update
As of January 2007 Northwest Health Connections will no longer be sending out certificates. The trainer present will hand them out as evaluations are turned in. If there is a provider agency that does not agree to this we can make arrangements. It is the responsibility of the person receiving the certificate to make copies for your employer if requested.
Please email bbrien@northwesthc.com if you need to make any specific arrangements or if you have any questions. Thank you! |
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May your blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow, and may trouble avoid you wherever you go. ~Irish Blessing
May the Irish hills caress you. May her lakes and rivers bless you. May the luck of the Irish enfold you. May the blessing of Saint Patrick behold you. ~Irish Blessing |
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March 5-11th is national Sleep Awareness Week www.sleepfoundation.org
Parents of adolescents are often baffled by their children's desire to do everything – even sleep - while watching television or listening to music. Equally puzzling to some is the amounts of time kids spend playing video games. But how much do electronic media interfere with adolescents' sleep and what are the consequences of using such devices to help with sleep? A study published in the July/August issue of the Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health sheds light on the matter. A research team from the Leuven School for Mass Communication Research at Katholieke Universiteit in Leuven, Belgium, gave a questionnaire to 2,546 seventh and tenth grade children in a random sample of 15 schools. The questionnaire asked about the presence of electronic devices in the bedroom, using such devices as sleep aids, total sleep time, and tiredness levels during the daytime. The results showed that 60% of the adolescents used music to help them fall asleep, 36.7% used television, and 28.2% of the boys and 14.7% of the girls used computer games. The researchers analyzed these data against bedtimes, total sleep times, and daytime sleepiness levels and found that use of electronic media was associated with sleeping less and feeling more tired during the daytime. The results also showed that about half of the adolescents reported reading books in order to promote falling asleep, but reading did not have the same adverse effects on sleep as electronic media. Similarly, the results of NSF’s 2006 Sleep in America poll show that adolescents with multiple electronic devices in their bedrooms were more likely than those with one or none to get an insufficient amount of sleep at night and almost twice as likely to fall asleep in school and while doing homework. The results of this study and of the NSF poll suggest that technology may be encroaching on the sleep of adolescents in the United States and elsewhere. |
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We would like to welcome our newest member to our Northwest Health Connections family, Lou Cable, RN. Lou is our new Health Service Specialist. Welcome Lou!! |