Why Many People Want To Be Nurses Now

REASONS WHY PEOPLE RUSH INTO NURSING TODAY

 As we are leaving this place in November, others are coming in. Every year, thousands of candidates are enrolling into the school of nursing. This trend was not there before but, recently it seems nursing has become one of the most attractive professions on earth. Hundreds of thousand nurses review and pass the board exams, and get licensed annually. Still, more and more are lining up just to get that nursing degree. 

Despite the growing number of the nurses, Nursing is still on the trend as one of the career paths today. This trend continues and increases every year. Here are five reasons to tell you why.

1.    The employment opportunities. The industry grows on daily basis because an increasing number of the populace will need adequate care, and we are in a continuously growing population. Job opportunities for the nurses are expanding as well. The modern lifestyle and culture brings with it a set of illnesses that require meticulous care and the nurse has to provide it. Nurses can choose from a variety of specializations --- Burns and Plastic Nursing, paediatrics, adult medical-surgical nursing, intensive care, Peri-operative, Accident and emergency care, Orthopaedic Nursing, community health, occupational or industrial. They can also go into teaching or administration. The possibilities are so vast and more are still been discovered, where the nurse can fit in.

2.    The compensation Plan. The average compensation for a nurse is good and you continue to take a higher salary grade as you add up years for experience. The least period to become a nurse is two years. There are also nurses that prefer to be hired by some big multinationals and their pay is often mouth-watering, though many now prefer a pensionable job (federal job) because it provides a more reliable security. As a matter of fact, nurses are not among the professions that look for job for too long. Their complaints are not joblessness, but compensation. There is always a job for the nurse.

3.    Job Stability. When you go working as a nurse, you have a stable job. Since hospitals are comprised of more than half by nurses, and that the healthcare setting is always in a fast-paced motion, changing staffs is not that ideal. Doctors spend less time with patients, whereas nurses consume most of the time, becoming the primary caregivers of the sick, therefore changes in the number of the working staff due to dismissal or termination is taxing to the hospital, both to the employers and the other employees.

4.    It serves as a prerequisite to a higher education. If you have the desire to go higher in education nursing provides a veritable environment that gives you unlimited and fertile opportunities to do so. If  you are interested in taking up Medicine or any other related course, being a nurse makes it easier as you will not have much problem understanding the subjects like a fresh student. Most subjects are similar and your understanding will be faster.

5.    Job Satisfaction.  
Aside from the compensation and job opportunities prepared for you, the sole reason of becoming a nurse is having that sense of fulfilment. This is one of the things which keep people attracted to the profession. There is nothing as fulfilling as being in a position to assist a person in need or at the point of death and see the person recover and smile again. Nurses become nurses since they have the heart to care, the touch to heal. They are patient enough to stay with the sick, and dedicate their time and energy for the benefit of the other.

 The feeling of having been one of the reasons why your stroke patient is able to talk, why your sick paediatric client is able to play and giggle again, simply gives you a rewarding feeling. Getting the chance to save someone else's life is really far more rewarding than anything else.

These are just the five reasons I want you to see. More are coming. And if you are interested, why not pick up a form today and start the process. You’ll love it.
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TIPS ON WRITING A GOOD NURSING DIAGNOSES

   
When we were in school of nursing, and even as we write series of exams, there seems to be a stereotyped way of writing nursing diagnoses: It’s always something like this:

Nursing Diagnosis: "Altered Body Comfort-Pain Related To Inflammation And Oedema."

If you are a nurse I know you must have written something like this several times or even discussed an argued about it in the course of your study. You can be able to write a long diagnosis when you are in a less busy unit but when you are in a tight unit, it becomes unnecessary. It is useless to write a nursing diagnosis that your colleagues would not understand.It doesn’t help anybody especially the patient.. Below is a practical tip and writing a good nursing diagnosis and care plan that works:

1. State the nursing diagnosis using simple language. Don't be afraid to include the medical diagnosis.

Everyone on your nursing team needs to be able to understand the patient's problems. If the patient has pneumonia, say so.

The nursing diagnosis, "Ineffective Breathing Patterns related to infection as evidenced by a change in respiratory pattern and tachypnea." becomes "Shortness of Breath (SOB) Secondary to Pneumonia."

2. Write the plan backwards

If you have difficulty coming up with the goal, start with the interventions first. Then write the goal. The goal can be the opposite of the nursing diagnosis.

"No SOB" might be too short.

"Within the next 2 weeks, the patient will no longer have SOB or any other signs or symptoms of pneumonia." is more specific about the outcome you want.

3. Say plainly what you are going to do

Your language does not have to be fancy, just understandable. "Elevate Head of the Bed (HOB) at least 30 degrees" is a clear and concise directive.

4. Eliminate obvious interventions

Don't waste time and energy by saying the obvious like: "Give prescribed antibiotics"

What nurse would not give an ordered medication? Instead, use interventions that remind you what to do such as, "Watch for side effects of antibiotic such as rash, diarrhoea, nausea."

Don't be intimidated when writing nursing care plans. You don't have to write them the way you did in nursing school. Write them the way they are, the way you see it right there. State the problem so everyone can understand it. The goal is often the opposite of the nursing diagnosis. You know what needs to be done.

Don't be afraid to write those interventions down. If you follow these guidelines, you will find that writing the nursing diagnoses and nursing care plan will not only be easier, but will help you take more consistent care of the patients on your shift and from shift to shift.

Be the Best Nurse You Can Be!

SOME HABITS THAT GIVE YOU EXCESS WEIGHT

 
 Our people here in Nigeria consume more sugar these days than before. All these “soft drinks and snacks” all over the place have contributed to a large extent. But we are not forced to take them. We choose to take them. We all know the health risks of that-obesity and diabetes, but did you know that too much sugar consumption can cause wrinkles? A dermatology study published in Britain found that a process called glycation causes sugar to attach to the proteins in collagen and elastin and thus make the skin look older especially after age 35. That makes it as much a culprit in causing wrinkles as smoking and too much sun exposure.

Women should not eat more than 25 grams or approximately 6-7 teaspoons of sugar a day. One way to cut down on sugar is to avoid processed food. Another is to check the sugar amount in fruit juices, many juices have more sugar than a piece of whole fruit. A helpful habit is to drink a glass of water (or seltzer) if you are craving sweets. If that doesn't help, have a small piece of dark chocolate or a few berries. And, If that doesn't help, think of the day someone learns you are 75 and says, "I would have guessed your age as much younger."

AVOID THE "AGEs "

Nutritionists tells us that advanced glycation end products (AGEs) form when sugar and fats react with a protein that causes a structure to change irreversibly, and attach to many things in the body which in turn causes damage. As mentioned above, we can create these AGEs when we eat sugar. We can consume AGEs when we eat foods that are processed and/or heated. We need to avoid AGEs because they can increase inflammation and oxidation which in turn causes aging and age-related diseases affecting the heart, brain, bones, kidneys, anemia and the skin. Michelle Davenport is a research nutritionist, , of the New York School of Medicine, New York. Cooking methods, such as browning, grilling, roasting, broiling and frying create AGEs. Other culprits are highly processed foods and high fat dairy products such as cheese. To reduce AGEs, marinate food in an acid (lemon juice or vinegar) before cooking. Eating a variety of antioxidants and anti-inflammatory foods help reduce the oxidation and inflammation that AGEs cause.. Adding berries, sweet potatoes and leafy greens to our diet helps reduce the AGEs effect.

DON'T CUT OUT FATS

We need good, healthy, fatty acids like omega-3 to help keep skin supple, boost brain health, keep the heart strong and fight diabetes. The research to isolate the omega-3 is very new so in the meantime, nutritional literature recommends we eat a variety of whole foods, rich in vitamins B,C,D, E and omega-3s The literature says to avoid vegetable oils rich in omega-6 (corn, soy, sunflower, safflower) and limit the fats found in butter and cheese. We should consume more extra virgin olive oil, olives, avocados, almonds and fatty fish. We need 21/2 teaspoons of omega fatty acids a day which we can get from a purified fish oil supplement or a tablespoon of cod liver oil. Take either with food for better consumption.

No one has said aging well is easy. But forming good healthy eating habits when younger and maintaining them as you age, will enable you to look and feel younger as you enter those "golden years."

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Why Marry A Nurse (part 2)

WHY YOU SHOULD MARRY A NURSE (PART 2)

You are most welcome to this country where you meet the most intelligent, versatile and caring nurses. We present here the modern trends in nursing and what you need to know about nurses. We give you health updates to help you stay fit and happy. There is a certain misconception among the public about nurses and I believe that with patient teaching they’ll be able to understand who the nurse is and why s/he acts the way s/he does.

Today again let me introduce you to some nurses you may not know about or have heard about them but not appreciate how wonderful they are. If you are considering marrying a nurse, you’ve NOT made an error. Your friend will envy you.

Meet the noblest professionals!

Plastic Nurse:

You can call her a Burns and Plastic Nurse or Aesthetic/Cosmetic nurse.

Never seen a creature so fast and so gentle at the same time; a very rare mix. Super fast to respond to critical conditions and also so cool and gentle in handling the hurting soul! You should not be surprised because that’s how she is trained—fast to respond, with very keen sense of observation, and also to treat the crushed, disfigured, emotionally wrecked, psychologically fleeced minds, physically battered bodies with the utmost gentleness. Just see a plastic nurse and you see gentleness personified! She can make the odd to be desirable again and bring the ancient to look modern.

That face or body that they can’t look on again, she knows how to get it to compete in a beauty contest and win. Trust her. She’s got the voice that speaks life, the eyes that instils hope and inspires happiness and her hands have got the touch that sooths like new wine or oil.

She knows how to ensure that even if you have a 90% physical, social or psychological burns, you will be free from any unwanted infection that will give you physiological oedema and emotional extravasations of all your hopes.

You will surely see and imbibe hope from her countenance even in the most seemingly helpless situations. She knows what to do to save you from social, physical and emotional disfigurement by applying the right psychological physiotherapy to save you from dangerous and incapacitating emotional contractures. Her children do not have character blemishes as she knows the solution. The plastic Nurse is the one if gentleness and carefulness is a virtue you appreciate. This nurse is multi-functional as you find her performing the role of almost all the other nurses. She is a total package not lacking a thing. Check her out.

Accident and Emergency Nurse:

For her you have no need to worry about any fatality in case of a brokenness of any form. And the best is that she is always battle ready (ready to work 247)always alert and ready to move to anywhere to save a situation. If you meet her outside she’s the same as when you meet her in her office-always prepared. 


Then bring in a case, and she will get you smiling the next minute as she expertly mobilizes forces that will skilfully save the near dead and rescue from the jaw of death.

Her resuscitative ability unbeatable even in the comatose

The A&E nurse as she is fondly called has no fear of any emergency in the home and you know what? She ensures that all loopholes that might cause you to loose anything and lead you to shed tears are well plugged! Such an expert manager you can trust her.

From the immediate scene of accident where you thought all hope was lost, she appears and picks you up and soon restoration begins. Your life and home, your children and extended family and friends she knows treat in any case to save their lives.

Perioperative Nurse:

Ever heard about them? You rarely see them when you visit the hospital because their work is done in the “sanctuary”. A kind of enclosure called theater where the perform the most spectacular act of saving lives by repairing an abnormality, removing a problem or introducing a lost part that will make life better.

The periop nurse is always there with the instrument and knows the names and dates of invention of all those weird-looking and fear-inspiring equipment that are used to save life.
No matter the case, however the people might think it is hopeless, you will find her well composed and calm, thoughtfully thinking out what to do. And when she’s done, a miracle happens.

The periop nurse is a wise decision if you want to go that direction. Meet a highly calculative, life-loving and careful person who will make you exude life each moment.

Watch out as more nurses come your way tomorrow.
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Health Facts From The Nurse

FIRST STEPS TO WEIGHT LOSS

With social and career success being firmly rooted in modern life, physical appearance is more important than ever. Everyone wants to look trim and fit to be acceptable and also be able to fit into the fast-paced life of modern society. Therefore many people are interested in keeping themselves in shape, especially after a winter of eating heavier food at the expense of fresh vegetables at fruits.

HOW DO YOU START THE WEIGHT LOSS JOURNEY?

The first thing to do when trying to get rid of the unwanted excess kilograms is to take a look at your diet. This is very important and needs your utmost attention. This is the first step on your journey. Are you relying heavily on chips, soda and fast food (meat-pie, cakes, short bread no matter the make or where you got them) to make it through the day? You also know that what we have as meat-pie here is nothing but flour stuffed with carrots or sometimes Irish potatoes. Are you eating enough vegetables and fruits? While hamburgers, fries and soda are a tasty and satisfying combination, it is also a deadly proposition to your health. If you want to stay fit, you must quit eating high-powered food that provides too much energy.

Your body doesn’t like to waste things it can use later on and energy is one of the most important things that can be stored. Eating hamburgers and chips while leading a largely sedentary lifestyle gives your body much more energy than it normally uses. This energy is not thrown away, but converted to fat and put into storage. Therefore, you must cut down on this type of food and turn to the humbler fruits and vegetables to keep hunger in check without putting your health at risk.

The second part of the system is exercising. While a sound diet makes sure your body doesn’t get more energy than it needs, exercising is here to help use up energy already stored. Taking brisk walks after meals is OK, exercising half an hour per day is good, and going to a gym for an hour or so five days a week is perfect. 

There’s no need to starve or exhaust yourself. Diet and exercising can be fun with a bit of thinking and a positive attitude.

Finally A Cure For HIV/AIDS

 While the world has been praying and working hard to find a solution to the scourge of HIV/AIDS, it is ironic what the reaction of millions would be if such a remedy is eventually found. Such is the kind of worries already shown by not a few over the introduction of TRUVADA, the new wonder drug for prevention of HIV, Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). The drug is a combination of Tenofovir 200mg and Emtricitabine 300mg.

It was discovered that a combination of these two substances increases the compliance with ARDs by patients. TRUVADA was developed by Gilead Sciences Inc.

It has been examined and found that Tenofovir alone or combined with Emtricitabine, significantly reduces the risk of contracting HIV, hence FAD(Food and Drug Administration),the USA equivalent of NAFDAC approved it for prophylactic use on 16 July 2012.It works by blocking the action of the protein that HIV needs to infect the human body. But clinical trials show that it can also protect uninfected high-risk people from acquiring the virus, if they take the drug daily before and after exposure.

Prof (Mrs) Ibironke Akinsete

Now one person who has shown serious concern is Professor (Mrs) Ibironke Akinsete.She is a pioneers Chairman of National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA). She stated that the knowledge of the use of this drug among Nigerian youths and even adults will lead to promiscuity and crass immorality. This will in the long run produce new cases of infection and we would be worse for it. The fear of HIV seems to have kept some people from living carelessly and being more safety conscious. If that fear is removed, then recklessness takes the center stage.

The approval is controversial. Some public health experts argue that allowing the drug to be used for prevention will foster a false sense of security among users, leading people to believe mistakenly that they are immune to the virus and reduce their use of condoms. However, the FDA determined that the benefits of expanding the pool of people who may use Truvada to protect against HIV made it worth approving. Another concern is that for the drug to really work in healthy individuals who are exposing themselves, they need to take it daily just like one taking Contraceptive pills.

Well for anyone who may want to live recklessly or stake his life on any pill, I advice you to read more about TRUVADA and see what the manufacturers said about it.

•    TRUVADA does not always prevent HIV. Would you like to stake your life on something that is not 100% safe? I know your life is much more than a thing to play a game with.

•    Just Taking TRUVADA MAY NOT keep you from getting HIV.

•    TRUVADA does NOT cure HIV or AIDS.

Read more about the drug here: http://www.truvada.com

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Why Marry A Nurse?(part 1)

Nurses are not the gods or demigods, but they are noble at heart. They are not perfect, but even the worst nurse you can meet still has that angelic-human trait that is uniquely nurses. Though some are really tough, some are rough and some are hard to deal with, still from the professional perspective, nurses are really one of the nicest people to encounter. The following description is a personal analysis and just for information and entertainment purposes.

While I placed some traits to some particular specialty, every nurse has these qualities in appreciable degree, no matter how s/he appears on the outside.

Please meet the Noblest Professionals!

Paediatric Nurse:

She is so tender-hearted and has that inborn trait that compels her to care for any child whether he’s beautiful or ugly, deformed or perfect, black or white; whether the parents are rich or poor, preterm or full term.

Her driving principle is that this is a child of God and must be fully cared for. She is the mother of all; the real mother of the house and no one feels like a stranger.  A little cry from the baby and she jumps to her feet to wipe out any cause of discomfort. This is the way she treats any man that comes her way.

 Though fully grown and full of age, she still sees that man as her baby in need of tender care and she can go to any length to ensure her man is happy and not In pains. She handles temper tantrum perfectly.She is a paediatric nurse.

Psychiatric Nurse:

Check out that smile on her face. A look on that face and you are already smiling too. Some say its because of her constant encounter with the psychiatric patients, but a closer contact will tell you that she‘s got that magnetic character and that the infectious smile is deep down in her and not cosmetic.

She has the magic wand to bring in vigour and vitality in a crippling situation and also to bring the wildest psychological or emotional conflagration under control! 

 She lights up every atmosphere she steps into no matter how sullen it has been. No matter how hard a man is, no matter how wild he gets, a psychiatric nurse can tame him.

 No matter how rough or tough the children,however schizophrenic,manic or psychotic in-laws, friends and husband become, the psychiatric nurse knows the exact keys to bring him back to his senses…like magic. She has no hopeless case. And she does it all smiling! That’s a psychiatric Nurse.

Orthopaedic Nurse:

Enters the nurse with for whom no brokenness is hopeless!

With meticulous attention and care she wades through the most intricate and bloody hurts, trying to sooth all pains and get you smiling again. “Broken beyond repair” is not in her dictionary. For her the phrase is wrong. However badly broken a heart is, no matter how crushing the disappointment, call in the orthopaedic nurse and peace reigns again. She can assemble all the pieces wherever they have splintered and fallen to and knit them together again.

She can apply the correct weight of emotional splint to get your psychologically shattered situation immobilized and stabilized. She will tell you the exact period of time it takes for any type of hurt to heal even as she applies her relevant emotional traction. Your body and soul is totally care for by the orthopedic nurse. You only need to be patient because she is a very patient person.No matter how fractured the situation is You don’t need to tell her what to do. 

Trust the orthopaedic nurse.

Her children can never break off their character or get deformed in attitude. She knows how to handle that. So why not consider the orthopaedic nurse….eeemm let me leave you for now. See you tomorrow.

CHEERS!

TO BE CONTINUED

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