Archive for April, 2008

Disability Acts in Various Parts of the World

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

When President Bush introduced new legislation called as Americans with Disability Discrimination Act in nineties, he claimed that this act will act as comprehensive declaration of equality for the people with disabilities. Various countries all over the world including Russia, Japan and European Union members have expressed their desire to have similar act in place. The image of United States being leader in ensuring equal rights for people with disabilities, with other countries following the precedence set by United States, turned out to be only partly correct. The reality is however more complex.  A host of social, economic, cultural and political factors exclusive  to each country play their role in broadly different approaches to disability discrimination.

Nevertheless, precedent set up by ADA has influenced various countries to pass legislation preventing disability discrimination. The UK passed the Disability Discrimination Act(DDA) in 1995, Australia passed the act in 1992. Each of the legislation was influenced by US legislation ADA to certain extent. The language and content was borrowed from it.

Compared to DDA in the UK, Australian Disability Discrimination Act is quite compelling, specific and comprehensive. The UK law is much broader, less specific and more oriented towards providing guidance. Critics have claimed that this law is not suitable for prevention of discrimination against the disabled. However, the British Disability Discrimination Act has undergone amendments over a period of time to include additional areas and larger range of activities

The New Nursing Uniforms and Nursing Scrubs

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Nursing profession is a well known career and it not uncommon that people associated with this medical profession, looks for cheap medical scrubs. If you want something different to get a new look, then consider yourself lucky as a wide range of scrubs are available in the market today along with nursing uniforms. One of the main benefits of finding scrubs and lab coats is that they offer great choices which are expanding fast just like any other fashion wear.

With fashion revolution, things are changing rapidly and now nurses don’t have to wear old white dresses and funny looking hats. Nurses can now choose to wear color coordinated medical scrubs and patterned lab coats. Ranging from vast collection of simply basic scrubs to stretch fabric scrubs. Although the basic colors are white, green and light blue, but nowadays many medical centres and hospitals are offering other colors like pink, purple also.

Where to Find Nursing Uniforms

If you are a professional nurse or lab assistant, you may be interested in purchasing the medical uniforms. Although there are many shops out there, surfing the internet is also a good option to find the best nursing scrubs available in the market. Many websites over the internet has good collection of nursing uniforms and scrubs in a variety of deign and colors.