Before We Got Married ( Relationship Life Story by a Nurse)

The challenges of a male nurse who married a colleague doctor

It was almost in the last part of my internship at one of the State University's Teaching hospitals, during the Christmas period of 2012.

we were all getting ready with selection and arranging of all our documents from the various departments that we were posted.

 Gathering our attendance sheets and log books for signing and arranging our reports was the major work for that day. Every one of us was excited to finally be out of this place and back to school again, though we were to have our final exams in less than a months’ time.

One Of My Most Stressful Days (True Story by a Nurse)

I have had many stressful days at work.This is just one of them and I hope it will help to encourage someone.



Let's begin...

It was a day that got me into a lot of moods and emotions .It was a day that put me to the test of patience and self-control.
 It was also a day that I learned the lesson of responsibility in a hard way.

Even though other colleagues were angry at what happened, I was calm. Maybe because I was too weak to talk or even to get angry.

I simply did what I was supposed to do,took the next available bus and rode home, sleeping most of the time as I commuted.

WHAT HAPPENED?

Are Nurses Guilty of Indecent Dressing?

Indecent dressing is the wearing of any apparel clothes that is not socially, culturally and morally acceptable. 

The society obviously frowns at this modern trend that is causing serious vices and creating serious outcry. 

The nurse is supposed to be an epitome of every inimitable virtue, a mirror of goodness and powerful light that shines strongly to illumine the dark path of the society where s/he operates.  

The nurse is seen as same both in the hospital setting and outside. The patient and relations that you treat in the hospital will always address you as,”nurse” or “my nurse” whenever they see you either in the bus, train station, driving your car, at the airport, church or any social function.

When a patient slapped you

This post is a follow up to the story about Nurse Jane who was slapped by an angry patient while trying to explain to him how to take his food and medications.

Everyone was disturbed and angry but as usual,you need to keep your calm,recalling that he was still a patient and the customer was always right.

But would the customer be right when he assaults or tries to kill you even when you are there to save and nurture his own life?

I promised to let you know what happened between the hospital CEO, the patient and nurse Jane, today. So here is the story. 

Enjoy…

I Was Dumped After Buying My Wedding Dress

It’s September. That time of year when the air is cool enough to let you enjoy the sun beating down as you sit on a terrace sipping a glass of sangria. 

I’m laughing with my best friend about her disastrous dates. 

I used to be able to relate, but recently, it has been all about which flowers will be in my bouquet, who makes the guest list, what to do with those relatives I haven’t seen in 10 years but Mom says I “absolutely need” to include.

You, Do You

WARNING! If you clicked on this,make sure you read to the end
 
Written by Viola Ifeyinwa Okolie

I had a friend in school, the "most likely to succeed" type. 

She was brilliant - book and street smart - had the drive and ambition, was almost always the first to be considered for a position of responsibility but...

Ten years after we graduated, she was still job hunting.

From one mediocre, destiny destroying, slave labour masquerading as a "job" to the other. She would get frustrated after three months of deceiving herself she had a job, and kuku embrace her unemployment status with pride. 

Nearly Killed By Patient's Relations

It was a day that remains etched in my memory and even though it’s been many years now since it happened, I still recall clearly the terror and fear that ran through the cool atmosphere of that evening as they roared in anger. 

It was just one event captured in a certain place which depicts the risks that nurses and medics face everyday in the discharge of their duties.

Countless remain unknown because they are unreported.

What actually happened?

Beauty Queen Walks Up The Stage On Nurses Scrubs and a Stetoscope.See The Reaction(VIDEO)

Miss Colorado,Kelly Johnson walked up the stage fully dressed in nurses scrubs and also wearing her stethoscope to the amazement of all spectators.

Watch their reactions and what she has to say.

Nurses indeed are a rare breed of humans.Please don’t just watch,share this video.Share this post.

How Technology Can Benefit You As A Nurse

In the early days of online education, serious students viewed the entire concept with great skepticism. 

And for valid reasons: dial-up Internet connections were too slow, educational institutions popped up out of nowhere that no one had ever heard of, and the list goes on.

 But technology is forever improving. Below are several reasons why today’s distance learning options are fantastic options for those who are seeking a quality education from an online nursing school.

• Many courses today have progressed well beyond one lackluster slide after another. Broadband connections have greatly improved the streaming videos that make an online classroom come alive. Students can now see and hear their instructor deliver a prepared lecture, often in real-time.

National Nurses Week Quotes 2015: 15 Inspirational And Funny Sayings To Honor Health Professionals

By Philip Ross

 National Nurses Week is a time to pay tribute to nurses and acknowledge the vital role they play in hospitals everywhere

Nurses are the backbone of health care systems around the world, bearing up countless patients and working long days to help save lives. National Nurses Week 2015, which begins Wednesday, is a time to recognize the vital role nurses have played in hospitals everywhere.

"It's such a selfless job,” Erica Morse, a nurse clinician at Hurley Medical Center in Flint, Michigan, told MLive.com. “We are working holidays and weekends, and we miss a lot of times with our families. It's just a way to say thank you for all they do."

Nurse Of The Month

Heading to school,and on time

Its my pleasure to introduce to you our NC Blog's Nurse Of The Month.

Its a presentation of beauty,smartness,brains humor and hard work combined in one person....

She is one of those nurses who always make a remarkable impression in any area of duty and in any association,she stands out:

 You have to notice her presence,not by her forcing it but by her invigorating and effervescent sense of humor.

 

Adeyemo Grace Adeola

Our Nurse Of The Month.

Hobbies:Reading,boat riding,reading(she loves John Gresham like she loves Ice Cream),listening to music and surfing the internet for information.

Likes: Neatness,honesty, she likes good music and a nice ice cream (Strawberry flavored!) lol

Dislikes:Insincerity,Injustice in any form especially to hardworking and sincere people,loud-mouthed and proud folks.

Birthday: May 8

Aspirations: To be the best in any area she goes in the nursing profession and to make a positive mark in the lives of anyone she encounters.

See More beautiful pics after the cut

Men In Nursing On The Increase

Any  observant person especially one who is in the medical or paramedical department  wherever there is a college or school of nursing would notice the trend.I was always asked the same question when i was in school regarding the increase of males in the profession that was seen as a female dominated place.
Some were even asking how i coped with all the females in the class.Recent studies show that the number of men entering careers in nursing is expected to rise over coming years.

How Does Social Media Affect Nurses?

We can easily say that within the last ten years social media has changed the way in which the world spreads information. Social media has touched every form of business and healthcare is no exception. Sites like Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest have helped large and small hospital systems define their personalities and reach out to their patients in new ways.

Social media has positively enabled small and large hospital systems to reach out to their patients and communities in brand new ways. It is currently estimated that over 70% of nurses regularly use social media. 

That is a tremendous amount and cannot be disregarded. On one hand, social media has enabled nurses to connect with one another and share inspirational and educational material. On the other hand, social media has also created numerous concerns related to patient safety and patient privacy rights.

Cedar Hill Police: Nursing home Worker Arrested After Being Found In Resident’s Bed With His Pants Down

A staff member at a Cedar Hill senior living center was arrested on an aggravated sexual assault charge Thursday after he was found in a 76-year-old resident’s bed with his pants down, police said.

Ryan Otey, 27, was being held in the Dallas County Jail Friday.
Cedar Hill police said they were dispatched to the Crescent Place Assisted Living Center on 225 West Pleasant Run Road on Thursday.

10 Signs Of Menopause

MENOPAUSE!

Not in the mood for sex? Suffering joint pain? 

You could be on the brink of the MENOPAUSE: up there in the diagram are 10 signs every woman should be aware of...

Its a natural point or phase that must be experienced by any woman who lives long enough to get to the age.

The menopause is the time when a woman's periods stop. In the UK, this usually happens between the ages of 47 and 53. People often refer to it as 'the change.'Some people have theirs earlier and this accounts for the fear in many women sometimes when pregnancy delays in coming.

Does Menopause affect sex?

The truth is that there's no reason why you can’t continue to enjoy a happy and satisfying sex life during and after the menopause, if you want to.

Nurse Of The Month

A rare combination of smartness,beauty and diligence.

Nice experience

She is principled and dedicated to anything she puts her hands to

This Month we introduce our April Nurse of The Month:

Yes!Its her birth month(April-Born)

 






         KEMI IRETIOLUWA

Cast in the mold of those nurses whose smiles alone get you on the way to recovery. 

Birthday: April 11 

Likes: Sincerity,easygoing folks,God-fearing people. 

Dislikes: Pretense,Lies,Laziness she is a very jovial and principled nurse but her conviviality doesn't get in the way of her duties.She is thorough;Everything must be done to order! 

Contact Kemi: Click Here 

More cool pics after the cut 

A Day In The Live of A Nurse

By IRENE NORTH 

High school students from Gering and Scottsbluff got a chance last week to learn what it’s like to be a nurse.

Becky Kautz, a member of the nursing faculty at Western Nebraska Community College, gathered current nurses to speak about how they came to the profession while student nurses and other members of the faculty showed the 50 students what life is like for a nurse in several of the nursing disciplines.

“This is the first time we’ve tried this activity,” Kautz said. “We invited high school students who have expressed an interest in nursing as a career path.”

Kautz said there is a continual need for nurses and WNCC can provide the training.

“We have both LPN and RN degrees here,” she said.

T.J. Dredla, an anesthetist with Regional West Medical center, said he didn’t really know at first if he wanted to be in health care.

“Something kept pulling me toward medicine,” he said. “The many opportunities in nursing was comforting because I could practice at home in rural areas and help my friends and family.”

Plight of African Nurses Risking Their Lives To Treat Ebola Patients Revealed

 Shunned by their families, evicted from their homes and paid next to nothing

• Nurses treating Ebola victims are routinely thrown out of rented homes
• In Sierra Leone, many are shunned by their terrified friends and families
• 57 per cent of medics treating Ebola have succumbed to the disease
• Liberia and Sierra Leone are the countries worst hit by the epidemic 

The women’s staff room at Hastings Ebola Treatment Center in Western Rural Area, Sierra Leone, is cramped, stuffy and hot from the sunlight flooding through the window.

Nurses in blue scrubs squeeze onto the rickety beds and try to sleep during their break in the Green Zone.

Later, they will go to the Yellow Zone, pull on their Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and go back to the wards - the Red Zone.

Nurses are so busy and overworked they haven't got time to eat

Most nurses are so overworked because of Government cuts they don’t have time to eat properly at work.
Royal College of Nursing research found 79 per cent failed to get a break long enough for a healthy meal in shifts stretching up to 14 hours. Nearly two thirds questioned said workplace stress led to them snacking from vending machines.
Half said low staff levels caused by cutbacks meant they had no time to get a sit down meal in canteens that were often too far away.
And 75 per cent on nights said machine snacks like crisps were often the only food available during their shifts.

Technical Aid Corps 2012 Recruitment

 Technical Aids corps Recruitment 2012

Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Abuja welcome applications from qualified candidates  for Nigeria Technical Aid Corps (TAC) Massive Volunteer Recruitment for the 2012 to 2014 Biennium.

The Technical Aid Corps (TAC) scheme is a viable volunteer programme operated by African countries across ACP countries(African,Caribbean and Pacific countries).One of Nigeria core foreign policy objective has been technical aid and assistance.

The technical aids corps (TAC) scheme was established by the Federal Government of Nigeria in 1987 to assist States in Africa, Caribbean and specific regions in their social-economic development effort through the participation of Nigeria experts in various fields of Human endeavor.

Objectives

Key objectives of the scheme are:

• Sharing Nigeria’s know-how and expertise with other ACP countries
• Giving assistance on the basis of assessed and perceived needs of recipient countries
• Ensuring a streamlined programme of assistance to other developing countries
• Acting as a channel through which South-South collaboration is enhanced
• Establishing a presence in countries which, for economic reasons, Nigeria has no resident diplomatic mission.
• Promoting cooperation and understanding between Nigeria and recipient countries
• Facilitating meaningful contact between youths of Nigeria and those of recipient countries
• Complementing other forms of assistance to ACP countries

Applications are invited from the profession listed below

1.) Engineering:

Water resource/Hydraulic, Thermal Machine Design, Industrial, Manufacturing, Mineral Processing, Agriculture, Mining, Geology, Electronics, Automobile, Communication, Microelectronics, Road and Transport, Applied Mechanics, Computer, Highway, Electronics or Nuclear Physics, Sanitary, Food Technology, Process Control and Instrumentation, Chemical process, Re-inforced Concrete, Control System, Plant Layout and Production Planning, Engineering Materials, Garment Technology, Fashion Design, Textile Chemical Process, Quality Control in Textile, Physical Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Geo-physics.

 
 
2.) Nursing And Midwifery:

Midwives, Nurse Anaesthetists, Psychiatric Nurses, Theatre Nurses, Nurse Tutors, OR-Nurse and Public Health Nurses. Etc

 
 
3.) Teaching:

Teachers in Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics, English Language, Agriculture, History, Christian Religious Knowledge, Islamic Religious Knowledge, General Education, Home Economics, Microbiology, Biochemistry, Economics, Arts & Crafts, General Science, Vocational/Technical Education, Food Science Technology, Hotel Service, Tourism Studies specializing in travel operations, Special Education, Educational Administration, Educational Psychology, Curriculum Development, Childhood Education, Technical drawing, Economics, Business Education, Marketing, Purchasing, Banking and Finance, Accounting, Information technology, Geography and Health Science. 

 4.) Lecturers:

Lecturers in English Language, African Literature, Modern African History, English Literature, Linguistics, Theatre Arts, Library Science, Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Architecture, Textile & Weaving, Music, Art & Crafts, Quantity Surveying, Land Surveying, Chemical Pathology, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Mass Communication, Organic Chemistry, Banking and Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Coaches/Instructors, in Football, Basketball, Boxing, Athletics, Physical Education, Biochemistry, Computer Programming & Technology, Geography, Sociology and Social work, Anthropology, History, Genetics, Botany, Zoology, International Relations, Comparative Government/Politics, International Law, Policy Analysis, Urban/Regional Economics, Cooperatives, Economics, Econometrics, Natural Resource Economics, Environmental Economics/Policy, Experimental Physics, Theoretical Physics, Bio-statistics ecology, Food Microbiology, Entomology, Environmental Microbiology/ Biotechnology, Vector Biology/ Parasitology, Quality Assurance and Laboratory management, Toxicology , Urban Transportation Planning, Planning Theory, Environmental Planning, System Dynamics & Technology Policy, Research & Planning, Educational Administration, Curriculum Development, Testing and Evaluation, Educational Psychology, General Agriculture, Soil Science, Animal Science, Agriculture Economics, Wood science, Forest Science, Bio-diversity, (Environmental Management), Criminal Law, Torts, Family Law, Legal Research, Labour Law, Human Rights, Beef Cattle Production, Water resources, Animal Ecology, Rangeland management, Irrigation Agronomy, Tropical seed, Technology, Biometrics, Crop Protection, Plant Biotechnology.

5.) Medicine

Professionals needed include General Practitioners, Cardiologists, Orthopaedic Surgeons, Pathologists, Pharmacologists, Hematologists, Histopathologists, Surgeons, Micro-biologists, Radiologists/CT-Scan, Urologists, Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Paediatricians, Psychiatrics, Forensic, Medicine, Physicians, Epidemiologists, Entomologists, Dermatologists, Neurologists, Anesthesiologists, Plastic Surgeons, Physiologists, Anatomists, Physiotherapists, Ophthalmic Retinal Surgeons, Optometrists, Occupational Therapists, Dentists, Endoscopists, Pharmacists, Radiographers, Radiologists, Laboratory Technologists, Laboratory Technicians, X-Ray Technicians, Chemical Pathologists, Medical Electronic Engineers, Lep/TB Specialists or MO with Lep/TB Background, Health Planners/Administrators and Clinical Chemists

6.) Health Science:

Surgery, Internal Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Paediatrics, radiology, Pharmacology, Pharmacognosy, Biopharmaceutics, Pharmaceutical Technology, Human Anatomy, Stress Physiology, Embryology, Histology, Physiology, Biochemistry, Adult Care Nursing, Psychiatric Nursing, Dental health, Physical pharmacology, Pharmacology, Community health science, Psychiatrist/Mental health, Occupational health specialist, Immunology, Haematology, Chemical Nursing (Medical surgical), Peadiatric Nursing, Public nursing, Midwifery nursing, Environmental/occupational hygiene, Anesthesiology, Pychiatry, Pharmaceutical Analysis, Medicinal Chemistry.

7.) Veterinary:

Anatomy, Farm animal anatomy, Physiology, Immunology/Phraseology, Animal Health.

 

8.) Others:

Production management (with engineering background), Management science, materials Management, Management Economics, Public/Social Service/Industrial Economics, Cooperative Studies; (Theory and Practice, Legal systems, Organization and Management, Agric Cooperative Management, Auditing and Accounting), Business communication, Risk Management and Insurance, Hotel and Tourism Management, Hotel Food Production, Hotel Economics, Management Information Systems, Accounting Information Systems, Auditing Zoology. 

9.) Law:

Lawyers, Prosecutors, Magistrates and Legal Draughtsmen.

10.) Agriculture:

Doctors of Veterinary Medicine, Agric Extension and Development Officers, Nutritionists, Agronomists, Livestock production Experts, Horticulture.

11.) Artisans:

Carpentry and Joinery, Plumbing, Welding, Automobile Mechanics, Brick-laying, Tailoring and Vulcanizing.

Requirements:

• Candidates must be in possession of a First degree or its equivalent in designated disciplines from recognized universities.
• Additional higher degree as well as ability to communicate in French, Spanish and Portuguese Languages may be an added advantage.
• Lecturers in all disciplines must possess PhD or Masters degree with a minimum of 5 years lecturing experience.
• Knowledge of ICT is compulsory.
• They must have at least 3 years post NYSC experience.
• Candidates applying as Artisans must possess Full City and Guilds certificate and other professional certificates in their respective trades.

How To Apply

All applicant should submit a typewritten to the Directorate with the following details:

• Curriculum Vitae
• Photocopies of Certificates
• Photocopy of NYSC discharge Certificate/Exemption certificate
• Testimonials
• All foreign certificates are to be authenticated by the Federal Ministry of Education.

 

Application deadline:

14th November, 2012.

Applications should be addressed to:

The Director/CEO

Directorate of Technical Aids Corps

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

No. 35, Alex Ekwueme Way, 

Cadastral Zone Jabi District,

Abuja, FCT. 

P.M.B 102,

Garki Main Post Office, 

Abuja, FCT.

Note:

• Candidates who had previously undergone orientation are still eligible and therefore need not apply
• Applications would not be entertained after closing date.

You can visit  http://www.tacng.org for more information.
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