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5 Indispensable Leadership Lessons I Have Learnt From Interviewing Highly Innovative African Nurse
“Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.” Amy Poehler.
This is so important, we can’t overemphasize this truth, my friends.
Relationships play vital roles in our development as people. Without them, we will never be able to go far in the fulfillment of our purposes in life.
One tree can not make a forest.
One Lion does not make up the pride…
Ayinla Daniel
Founder & Editor of Care City.
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“Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.”
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Five Important Things Serious Leading Nurses Must Know In 2022
Leadership & Innovation
“Life is about discovering who we are, leading is about striving to become better than we are, and helping everything and everyone around us to become better too.”
5 Indispensable Leadership Lessons I Have Learnt From Interviewing Highly Innovative African Nurse
Nursing Innovation & Leadership
“To Become A Better You, Work In A Team Of Like-Minded People And Learn New Things You Don’t Know.” Israelmore Ayivor.
10 Nursing Scholarships You Should Check Out Immediately
Education & Career
Though getting nursing scholarships may not be very easy, there are still institutions & academic bodies out there that offer scholarships to nurses.
And if one meets the requirements, and follows the process [with a little guidance] you are sure to go home with a trophy.
A Good Time To Be Mentored Right
Leadership & Mentorship
You could feel the passion; the trueness; and genuineness in the voices of the professors & our guest, Mr. Israel, as they shared their stories with the family. Yes, the family…
Altitude Africa: Taking The Nursing Profession In Africa To Greater Heights
Nursing Africa
We will need nurse academics & scholars; the intuitive minds of nurse entrepreneurs will be required; nurse innovators & creators; nurses with political wit & in government; nursing writers & journalists; you just name it…
12 Uncommon Traits of Highly Effective Nursing Career Coaches/Mentors: How To Stand Out
Career & Personal Development
We need to create/build a Nursing Ecosystem (a new & exciting term I am learning) that can accommodate the rapid transformation that we are experiencing as a profession…
Care City is a Health Digital Media Startup. Our primary goal as a community is to inspire healthcare professionals in Nigeria, Africa & all over the globe to do more in Healthcare Innovation/Digital Health, Healthcare Leadership, and Healthcare Management, preparing them for the digitalized future of healthcare.
By incorporating several digital media tools, from writing & publishing content (audio-visuals, etc) that our audience can interact with, to collaborating with communities that share our core idea of innovation & leadership, these and many other innovative strategies are how we intend to inspire you & change our world.
We understand how diverse and vast the healthcare community is. Considering the dramatic and drastic changes that the 21st century has brought. We uphold a very high standard of inclusion in our working principles.
5 Indispensable Leadership Lessons I Have Learnt From Interviewing Highly Innovative African Nurses
“To become a better you, work in a team of like-minded people and learn new things you don’t know.” Israelmore Ayivor.
Five Important Things Serious Leading Nurses Must Know In 2022 | Leadership & Innovation
I can tell you that the eyes of Nurses in Nigeria & West Africa have never been this opened before in the history of the profession on the continent…
10 Nursing Scholarships You Should Check Out Immediately
Though getting nursing scholarships may not be very easy, there are still institutions & academic bodies out there that offer scholarships to nurses.
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I have a very strong feeling that nursing mentorship has found a new face here in Africa [and the world.] And one factor that makes me fall totally in love with everything is the faith in God that they bring into the whole game, it makes it extraordinary.
Care City Meets Adewumi Oluwatobi | INSPIRE | Special Edition | October
This interview session is special to Care City’s community. It is our first “in-house” interview. There is so much to learn from Oluwatobi.
On Nursing Innovation: Relationships, Innovation & Leadership
Surround yourself with fools, and in no time you will begin to behave like one. It’s so natural, you can’t fight it. The poor nature of the fool will gradually diffuse into the heart of the wise, without you even knowing it. So, it is wise that you give yourself a safe distance, for the love & respect that you have for your ideas…
Focusing on Young Nurses Initiative Holds Maiden Webinar
Focusing On Young Nurses Initiative: A Viable Solution To The Age-long Problem of Lack of True Mentorship Among Young Nurses in Africa & The World.
Altitude Africa: Taking The Nursing Profession In Africa To Greater Heights
It’s not just the “Nursing Field”, you can feel alone in that field, it’s an Ecosystem, where you are ever connected to an abundant supply of positive energy, pure inspiration & limitless possibilities.
12 Uncommon Traits of Highly Effective Nursing Career Coaches/Mentors: How To Stand Out
Today, we are seeing a dramatic increase in smart nurses stepping out and choosing to be recognized as nurse coaches & nurse mentors [some are older passionate nurses, the majority are younger, filled with so much energy].
Basics of Python For Healthcare Professionals: Python Appreciation For Beginners In The Healthcare Industry | Carecode Digital Health Hub
Everyone knows that any scripting language shootout that doesn’t show Python as the best language is faulty by design. – Max M
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We are never tired of inspiring you to do more. In this episode of INSPIRE, we bring to you another exciting interview session with an amazing Nurse – career coach, mentor & writer.
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Nurses & Healthcare professionals are served by a host of innovative online healthcare services, and medical smartphone apps top the list. In this article, we looked briefly at five amazing medical applications that Nurses & Healthcare professionals need to be intimate with.
An Intelligent Digital Cure To Type 2 Diabetes?
Can Digital Therapies cure Chronic Diseases? Read how this Digital Therapy is taking on the challenge of eradicating Type 2 Diabetes.
Nursing Mentorship: Mentor Material
Oh, hold it there big guy. It goes way beyond holding Nursing conferences & leadership summits. These channels serve a purpose, and the primary purpose is to ‘Gather.’ At first, everyone is excited about the fresh inspiration that they have caught, but then, after these big conferences, the energy seems to ebb. It gradually & quietly dies out.
The Year After The Pandemic | Part 2
After the pandemic, we have become more cautious, about how prepared we are in managing natural disasters; like the coronavirus outbreak.
The Innovation Series: Think Innovation Now
Nursing practice has also been affected greatly by the twin elements of Innovation & Research. New ideas have emerged. Theories have been built. Leadership breakthroughs have been developed in the laboratory of Innovation & Research. And the progress continues…
Ten Digital Health Technologies That Will Transform The Future Of Nursing Practice In Africa |Part 1 | Carecode Digital Health Hub
I have studied closely global digital health progress trends, and I have been able to synthesize the information harvested from my study, bringing out useful facts & insights that can be utilized to help us map out the path that we can use to journey as a profession in today’s digital-driven world, with the hope that we will be able to strategically place ourselves to be relevant in the coming digital health revolution that is about to sweep the African continent very soon, that is if it isn’t already upon us.
Five Personal Survival Tips For Newly Qualified Critical Care Nurses In Nigeria – My Humble Five | Six Minutes Read
In Nigeria, Critical Care Nurses are among the most highly paid nursing professionals – especially in the private healthcare sector.
INTRODUCING THE ART OF NURSING ON CARE CITY BLOG
Nursing gives you a unique view to see the world. You are suddenly aware of all the agony, sadness & beauty that surrounds you, which you have not been giving attention to. You become more aware.
Nurse-led Hospital Administration | Care City Leadership
“We are on the front lines of patient care and medical technology, which gives us the prime advantage when it comes to new ideas.”
Carecode Digital Health Hub
A lot of Nurses & Healthcare Professionals are technophobic, they feel the digital world is meant for the Steve Jobs and Bill Gates; they do not know that they will do themselves and their communities a lot of good by understanding the working concepts of Digital Health.
Five Quintessential Tools Serious Nurse Innovators Need To Have In Their Rucksack: The Whole Armour of The Nurse Innovator
Many are so scared of growing. They prefer to remain where there are; the so-called comfort zone (comfort zones are no more comfortable, they are death traps for good things).
Cardiothoracic Critical Care Nursing And Intensive Care Nursing In Nigeria: Similarities, Differences & Opportunities | Care City Career Series
Critical Care Nurses work in very high-stress environments. Because their nursing roles have advanced beyond the normal. They are actually advanced-practice nurses, in a sense.
Why Do We Change Jobs? | Part 1 | Care City Leadership
Many nurses out here, don’t like their jobs. More than 99% of us nurses in Nigeria (that is everybody) are looking for ways of leaving (I am among them).
On Nursing Innovation: The Power of Community | Nursing Innovation Today
“Innovation is creativity, imagination & original thinking.”
INSPIRE WITH THE WORLD CLASS NURSE, Getrude Orodo | May Interview Session| Nurse’s Month Special
My goal is to empower nurses to believe in themselves and become world-class professionals. I operate on the premise that when nurses believe in themselves and find their work more satisfying then patient outcomes will improve and so will the image of the profession.
Nurturing Your Innovative Ideas: Fighting To Keep Them Alive | Innovation & Leadership
As innovators, we never really stop fighting for our ideas. We keep on nurturing and fighting for them, it’s a life-long battle. The day you stop nurturing your ideas, you stop fighting, and the day you stop fighting, you have stopped believing, and that day, is the day that we can say farewell – adieu.
What The Nurses’ Week Means To Us: My Unwelcoming Arguments On Preserving What Defines Us | 2 Minutes Reading Time
This Nurses’ week, I will be writing a series of fresh blog posts about Nursing (I will include some personal stuff – this is blogging,
Future Of Healthcare: The Digital Perspective
Artificial intelligence for Data Mining, Remote Surveillance of patients on a ventilator, Rapid Testing, UVC light for SARS COV 2 Inactivation are enough instances to show how technology has assisted the Healthcare industry in combating the pandemic.
INSPIRE With Abiodun Oluwatobi | February Edition
This edition of INSPIRE is a very special one, in that we are interviewing an amazing Registered Nurse, whose brand (NJO) is a household name
The Congenital Heart Diseases Foundation Of Nigeria Holds Her Annual CHD Awareness Week
Starting with an introduction of the week on CHD’s social media platforms, on the 7th Feb 2021, which was also a National Wear Red Day, followed by an online presentation on 8th Feb, that discussed the causes of Congenital Heart Diseases, basics of fetal circulations, and common clinical features of common Congenital Heart Diseases.
INSPIRE WITH OMOLERE. T | JANUARY EDITION |
I wanted to be a civil engineer, I was in the engineering class in secondary school and had even written UTME with Civil engineering as my first and second choices. Nursing came into the picture a few weeks before I was given admission at OAU. Any detail longer than this will be longer than the entire interview.
Mechanical Ventilators, Hope & A Miracle | The Art Of Nursing | Ayinla Daniel
“Is he going to survive?” I kept asking myself. The story I am about to tell you is a true-life story. My colleagues from work will know better. We all had the opportunity to nurse him, and we gave our best, believe me, it isn’t easy working in the Critical Care Unit as a registered nurse or a medical doctor, you can ask around, it’s back-breaking. It messes with your emotions {many nurses & physicians who work in the critical care unit don’t know this, they are oblivious}…
The Art Of Nursing | Life Happens | Chidera Emmanuel Alajemba
“Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter’s or sculptor’s work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God’s spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.”
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Our first female guest on INSPIRE. A Registered Cardiac Nurse on a mission to rescue every child with a cardiac related disease in Nigeria & Africa.
INSPIRE | Maiden Interview Session With Chidera Alajemba, Registered Nurse & Founder of Engage Hope Network
This interview session on ‘INSPIRE’ means a whole lot to us at Care City because it is our first – the maiden edition, and we are starting with a very unique registered nurse, who works and lives in the United Kingdom.
The Sustainable Development Goals & Digital Health – What Does The Future Hold?
Good health/well-being is the foundation of The Sustainable Development goals. Societies and communities that are healthy are the only ones that will be able to pursue in their full capacities the aims of the SDG’s, and not sick, unhealthy people.
BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY & HEALTH CARE
The Blockchain technology is a promising one that can solve a variety of problems that we face in the delicate area of Health Care Data.
Think Like An Entrepreneur, Act Like A Nurse – Discovering Your Innovative Streak As A Registered Nurse
Think like an entrepreneur, act like a nurse is part of The Innovation Series published on CARE CITY BLOG, that tries to spur Registered Nurses to follow the golden path of innovation.
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Innovation is the wheel of progress. Without it, we all will find ourselves in a painful rut – with no improvements, no challenges, and most importantly no adventures.
Monitor My Heart From Afar – Remote Monitoring of Cardiac Physiology Made Possible
Innovation at its best. Intrinsic remote haemodynamic monitoring of heart physiologies.
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Drug dosage calculation is a vital aspect of clinical practice.
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Are you a registered nurse? What do you know about innovation? This article paints the picture and describes the subject of innovation, relating it to the health care sector while putting registered nurses close to mind.
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Digital health. What do you think it is? Follow me on this new series as I gradually unfold the broad concept of digital health.
All you need to know about Cardiothoracic Nursing In Nigeria
Cardiothoracic nurses can also be seen in the intensive care units (Critical care) or cardiothoracic intensive care unit, which is a specialized form of an intensive care unit that focuses on the intensive management and care of patients with cardiovascular problems who are been managed postoperatively or emergency situations that need intensive interventions (round the clock monitoring and assessment).
Exposing Healthcare Professionals To The Realities of Digital Life
Our Digital Health Hub, Carecode, is dedicated to exposing healthcare professionals in Nigeria & Africa to the realities of Digital Life, with a deliberate focus on Registered Nurses.
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We know it takes two to tangle. And this is why we place so much premium on collaboration, partnership & community.
HOLD MY HANDS
“Hold My Hands” is part of the ways we want to give to the society. There are people out there in our communities that need our support & help. Through the “Hold My Hands” initiative, we will be organizing community outreaches, participating in community healthcare programmes and contributing as much as we can…
Research Driven Essays & Articles
Our blog is a vital part of our online structure. With it, we communicate our ideas and that of others who share similar principles & theories with us.
Articles Geared At Inspiring Learning, Innovation & Leadership
We put in a lot of effort (we do our best, and look for ways to improve), to make sure that our articles, posts & essays spark a hunger in the hearts of our readers to do more.
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Inspire is our monthly interview session that features bright minds in the challenging field of Nursing Innovation. We want their stories to inspire you to do more…
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5 Indispensable Leadership Lessons I Have Learnt From Interviewing Highly Innovative African Nurses
“To become a better you, work in a team of like-minded people and learn new things you don’t know.” Israelmore Ayivor.
Five Important Things Serious Leading Nurses Must Know In 2022 | Leadership & Innovation
I can tell you that the eyes of Nurses in Nigeria & West Africa have never been this opened before in the history of the profession on the continent…
10 Nursing Scholarships You Should Check Out Immediately
Though getting nursing scholarships may not be very easy, there are still institutions & academic bodies out there that offer scholarships to nurses.
A Good Time To Be Mentored Right | FYNI Maiden Mentorship Webinar | A Personal Testimony
I have a very strong feeling that nursing mentorship has found a new face here in Africa [and the world.] And one factor that makes me fall totally in love with everything is the faith in God that they bring into the whole game, it makes it extraordinary.
Care City Meets Adewumi Oluwatobi | INSPIRE | Special Edition | October
This interview session is special to Care City’s community. It is our first “in-house” interview. There is so much to learn from Oluwatobi.
On Nursing Innovation: Relationships, Innovation & Leadership
Surround yourself with fools, and in no time you will begin to behave like one. It’s so natural, you can’t fight it. The poor nature of the fool will gradually diffuse into the heart of the wise, without you even knowing it. So, it is wise that you give yourself a safe distance, for the love & respect that you have for your ideas…
