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Registered Nurse Elected President of the Norwegian Parliament

Tone Wilhelmsen Trøen, a 52-year-old Nurse has been elected President of the Norwegian Parliament Nursingdetails.blogspot.com can confirm.  Trøen most recently has served as the Conservative Party’s spokesperson on health care issues and she has been leading the parliament’s committee in charge of family and cultural issues. She becomes only the second woman to lead Parliament in its history  and was elected Thursday morning by a vote of 152 in favour and two abstentions. “A united parliamentary delegation thinks Tone Wilhelmsen Trøen is well-suited to become the new president,” said Trond Helleland, leader of the Conservatives’ delegation in Parliament. “She has, in her committee work, shown herself to be a unifying and constructive politician. She can contribute towards strengthening confidence in Parliament.”

Nurse Assaulted: The First Hand story

Barely a month after one  Dr. Okolo  went wild allegedly beating a Registered Nurse at a private hospital at Awoyaya, Ibeju-Lekki area of Lagos state, a junior doctor (House Officer) identified as Dr.  Nuwar Alhaji Modu  has decided to take the baton from his senior colleagues as he beat up a Nurse at the early hours of Thursday, the 26th  day of July, 2018. T he incident which occurred at the  University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital,  Maiduguri, Borno State had left professional Nurses wondering if these  frequent cases of assaults pummeling the landscape of our hospitals against nurses are jointly planned by the medical association or its just an ugly coincidence. We would recall that another nurse working with the Ondo State Government was earlier assaulted some months back by a Doctor. The Dr. was said to have poured fluid used in dressing septic wound of a patient on her during the process of wound dressing and as at the time of this report...

BREAKING: Doctor who assaulted a Nurse suspended indefinitely.

A medical officer at the University of Maiduguri teaching hospital Dr Nuwar Alhaji Modu who assaulted a female Nurse has been suspended indefinitely. This is contained in a letter addressed to him following the incident. Please find attached the letter of suspension from work.

NIGERIAN NURSING IN THE 21ST CENTURY: ARE WE THERE YET? Nr. Jamda

Professional Nurses in the 21st century are faced with many challenges within the dynamic state of health care. In addition to the issue of access, cost, quality and accountability in health care, Nurses today are challenged by an aging population, complex consumer health values, and an increasingly intercultural society. Nurses have identified numerous areas of concern, including insufficient staffing, inadequate salaries, effects of stress and over work, lack of participation in decision making and dissatisfaction with the quality of their own nursing care. A survey conducted from October 2002 through December 2002 involving 1386 registered nurses and focused on the subject of clinical errors and ethics revealed that these nurses felt that they had compromised their standard of practice because of the nursing shortage. For example 78% of these RNs reported that they had either given an ordered medication or had given the medication to the patient at the wrong time. Changing duties, r...

Gani Fawehinmi Annual Scholarship Awards 2018

Gani Fawehinmi Scholarship Board - Applications are invited from students in tertiary institutions in Nigeria for the 2018 Gani Fawehhnni Annual Scholarship Awards. Gani Fawehinmi Annual Scholarship Awards 2018 Description * The award is for 20 (twenty) students, each of whom will receive One hundred Thousand Naira (N100,000) making a total sum of Two Million Naira (N2,000,000.00). Criteria for Award * Applicants must be poor and indigent. * Applicants must be registered students of tertiary institutions in Nigeria i.e Universities, polytechnics and colleges of education. * Applicants must have good academic performance. Award Ceremony * Successful candidates will be awarded the Scholarship on Thursday, September 13, 2018 at Nigerian Law Publications House, Otunba Jobi Fele- Way, C.B.D., Alausa Ikeja, Lagos at 12.00 Noon. Interview * Owerri: Applicants will be interviewed on Wednesday, August 15, 2018 at ASUU Secretariat, Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUT...