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The Sokoto State Government has confirmed nine deaths as a result of as suspected case of gastroenteritis in seven local government areas of the state. Gastroenteritis occurs when a person’s stomach and intestines are irritated and inflamed. The cause is typically a viral or bacterial infection, experts say. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, Mr. Mustapha Ali, on Friday in Sokoto, listed six of the affected LGAs as Illela, Sabon-Birni, Gada, Goronyo, Isa and Tureta. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that most of the LGAs border the Niger Republic. Ali stated that the situation was under control, as the state and Federal Government officials have been deployed to the affected areas, while medications and other aids have also been made available. He, however, refuted the claims that it was an outbreak of cholera, noting that experts have since taken samples for laboratory tests, in line with standard practice. According to the PS, preliminary investigations reveal that t...

The Plateau state chapter of the University Graduates of Nursing Science Association (UGONSA) held its meeting today in Jos the plateau state capital, the meeting took place today at the conference hall, College of Nursing vom, Juth Campus. The meeting was chaired by Mr. Mustapha Garba, UGONSA PRO, Northern Region and a staff of Federal University Kashere. Mr. Mustapha welcomed members and thanked them for creating time out of their tight schedules to attend the meeting, he then read out agenda for the meeting Members took out time to introduce themselves followed by an update on progress so far by Mr. Garba, Mr. Kizito and Mr. Dajwal.  Members  decried how graduate nurses in plateau state are being treated as second class citizens in the state, they all lamented how retirees are preferred to graduate nurses as lecturers, how the management of college of nursing and midwifery vom  do turn down youth corpers send to the school among others. The maltreatment of Nurses servi...

The Plateau state chapter of the University Graduates of Nursing Science Association (UGONSA) at its meeting  held today in Jos, the Plateau state capital, decried the maltreatment of Graduates of Nursing Science working in state owned hospitals and tertiary institutions. Chairman of the meeting Mr. Mustapha Garba, UGONSA Public Relations Officer, Northern Region and a staff of Federal University Kashere, earlier thanked the state government for creating the enabling environment for its members to operate but was quick to point out that a lot needed to be done. The meeting seriously frowned at how Graduate Nurses in Plateau state are being treated as second class citizens in the state, among issues that members raised included: 1. Re-engagement of retirees at the expense of fresh Graduate Nurses as lecturers. It was  observed that a whopping sum of #380,000;00 each retiree earned at college of Nursing can employ 3 graduates who are more productive as all the retirees level of...

The Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) and Assembly of Healthcare Professional Associations (AHPA), both of which constitute about 95 per cent of the workforce in the health sector have rejected report of the Yayale Ahmed Presidential Committee of Experts on Professional Relationships in the Public Health Sector (YAPCEPRPH). In an open letter to President Mohammadu Buhari dated, July 25, JOHESU and AHPA dissociated themselves from the committee’s recommendations for the establishment of the office of the Chief Medical Adviser to the President, the creation of a National Healthcare Commission, rejects the Committee’s opposition to the appointment of other health professionals as directors in federal health institutions, among others. Rejection of majority of the recommendations of the YAPCEPRPH by JOHESU and AHPA was based on their confirmations that the Secretariat of the Committee was infiltrated by the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) through its privileged members in government. ...

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.”

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...

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.

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 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...