Life is all about relationships and influence. In this article, I share personal tips on how you can create and nurture leadership relationships…
It’s our aim as a “Health Media Start-up” to ignite conversations, influence culture, and inspire Healthcare Professionals in Africa [and around the globe] through true journalism, community engagements, innovative storytelling, and commentary on innovation, leadership, creativity, and entrepreneurship in healthcare.
“It’s easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago but will soon be out of date.”
There is a dearth of good mentorship in the professional world today. In a world where everyone is busy with their own business and no one seems to care about helping, getting good mentors is almost impossible. This is the gap Focusing On Young Nurses Initiative wants to bridge with her mentorship academy…
Medication errors cause at least one death every day and injure approximately 1.3 million people annually in the United States of America alone. While low- and middle-income countries are estimated to have similar rates of medication-related adverse events to high-income countries, the impact is about twice as much in terms of the number of years of healthy life lost.
True education rescues the mind from captivity, it liberates the soul and brings out the treasures buried in a man.
Find out all you need to know about The National Drug Dosage Calculation Competition for Nurses, 2022.
Ahmed Dagane’s victory will open the gates to many more leadership victories in the nursing community and healthcare leadership in general.
Leadership is influence — nothing more, nothing less John Maxwell Our progress in life as leaders greatly depends on the kind of relationships we decide
Leadership is first about purpose, then sacrifice, and then tough commitment.
We have all been touched by the scourge of bad governance. It’s like a pestilence that has ravaged our land without mercy as we watch, helpless. The Nigerian healthcare
In the year 2017, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched a global initiative to reduce medication-related errors by 50% in 5 years. This is 2022,
What You Need To Know And What It Tells Us About The Future of Digitalization Of Healthcare In Nigeria.
“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.” Robert H. Shuller When you look around you, what do you see? A wonderful world full of
Dr. Adhanom Gabreyhesus has been an inspirational African healthcare leader. We made a brief compilation of some facts about this amazing leader.
Have you been thinking of migrating into the field of digital technologies? I answered some popular questions I am always being asked by healthcare professionals about migrating into the field of digital technologies.
We are ‘sooo’ excited right now! We are getting closer to starting our Digital Health Bootcamp. It’s our first and it will determine a lot of things in our
I was fascinated by it. By the sheer power generated when people who share similar visions come together to labor, build structures, and develop working systems.
This is the official report of our Digital Health Conference held in April.
Have you seized your spot in the future of Digital Health in Africa?
Celebrating Nurses’ Week Reimagining Nursing Leadership: Re-positioning For Impact In A Digitally Driven World In today’s fast-paced and digitally-driven world, it’s critical that nurses keep up
Hold on tight to your ideas. Even if they die today, they become manure for better ones tomorrow.
Telemedicine startups in Nigeria need to start doing this to make sure that they attract and keep users of their digital health technologies.
You can still apply to be part of the “Digital Health Bootcamp.”
The current healthcare trends necessitate creative and adaptable methods for improving results and decreasing shortfalls. Even with major progress in science & technology, the healthcare
To resist innovation is to resist change, and resisting change is simply fighting growth and development.
In the tech ecosystem, it’s getting harder to find experienced software engineers [and other skilled and experienced tech professionals], and this shortage has made the no-code movement even more popular, paving the way for a new crop of creators and innovators.
These experts have bagged numerous international and national awards in the area of digital health and healthcare and have made [and are still making] tangible contributions to the development of digital health in Africa and the world.
“There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to work toward the same goals.” – Idowu Koyenikan.
“Clinicians predict that over the next 10 years “technology literacy” will become their most valuable capability, ranking higher than “clinical knowledge.”
We believe that healthcare professionals in Africa can innovate & lead Africa’s healthcare ecosystem into greatness using the power of digital life; these sums up our mission as a community.
mapped out steps, processes & procedures that will make the migration process hassle-free for nurses in Nigeria.
The most creative innovations are often new combinations of old ideas. Innovative thinkers don’t create, they connect. Furthermore, the most effective way to make progress is
Don’t try to re-invent the wheel. Innovation is not about new things, it’s about how we are able to create from the work already on the ground.
With the metaverse, we can augment the telemedicine experience with immersive “patient to provider interactions” and even make certain medical procedures friendly and safe.
Where do you start from? There’s always a spot, a point, a location — where you are planted — That’s where you must start from.
Do you want to migrate into the tech space? I wrote this specifically for Nurses who are aching to enter the world of tech. Read on to find out how to hunt for a good mentor and more…
“To become a better you, work in a team of like-minded people and learn new things you don’t know.” Israelmore Ayivor.
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…
Though getting nursing scholarships may not be very easy, there are still institutions & academic bodies out there that offer scholarships to nurses.
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.
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.
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: A Viable Solution To The Age-long Problem of Lack of True Mentorship Among Young Nurses in Africa & The World.
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.
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].
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.
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.
Can Digital Therapies cure Chronic Diseases? Read how this Digital Therapy is taking on the challenge of eradicating Type 2 Diabetes.
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.
After the pandemic, we have become more cautious, about how prepared we are in managing natural disasters; like the coronavirus outbreak.
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…
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.
In Nigeria, Critical Care Nurses are among the most highly paid nursing professionals – especially in the private healthcare sector.
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.
“We are on the front lines of patient care and medical technology, which gives us the prime advantage when it comes to new ideas.”
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.
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).
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.
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).
“Innovation is creativity, imagination & original thinking.”
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.
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.
This Nurses’ week, I will be writing a series of fresh blog posts about Nursing (I will include some personal stuff – this is blogging,
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.
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
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.
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.
“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}…
“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.”
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.
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.
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.
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 is part of The Innovation Series published on CARE CITY BLOG, that tries to spur Registered Nurses to follow the golden path of innovation.
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.
Innovation at its best. Intrinsic remote haemodynamic monitoring of heart physiologies.
Drug dosage calculation is a vital aspect of clinical practice.
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.
Digital health. What do you think it is? Follow me on this new series as I gradually unfold the broad concept of digital health.
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).
In the year 2017, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched a global initiative to reduce medication-related errors by 50% in 5 years. This is 2022,
Find out all you need to know about The National Drug Dosage Calculation Competition for Nurses, 2022.
Ahmed Dagane’s victory will open the gates to many more leadership victories in the nursing community and healthcare leadership in general.
Leadership is influence — nothing more, nothing less John Maxwell Our progress in life as leaders greatly depends on the kind of relationships we decide
Leadership is first about purpose, then sacrifice, and then tough commitment.
We have all been touched by the scourge of bad governance. It’s like a pestilence that has ravaged our land without mercy as we watch, helpless. The Nigerian healthcare
What You Need To Know And What It Tells Us About The Future of Digitalization Of Healthcare In Nigeria.
True education rescues the mind from captivity, it liberates the soul and brings out the treasures buried in a man.
“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.” Robert H. Shuller When you look around you, what do you see? A wonderful world full of
Dr. Adhanom Gabreyhesus has been an inspirational African healthcare leader. We made a brief compilation of some facts about this amazing leader.
Have you been thinking of migrating into the field of digital technologies? I answered some popular questions I am always being asked by healthcare professionals about migrating into the field of digital technologies.
We are ‘sooo’ excited right now! We are getting closer to starting our Digital Health Bootcamp. It’s our first and it will determine a lot of things in our
I was fascinated by it. By the sheer power generated when people who share similar visions come together to labor, build structures, and develop working systems.
This is the official report of our Digital Health Conference held in April.
Have you seized your spot in the future of Digital Health in Africa?
Celebrating Nurses’ Week Reimagining Nursing Leadership: Re-positioning For Impact In A Digitally Driven World In today’s fast-paced and digitally-driven world, it’s critical that nurses keep up
Hold on tight to your ideas. Even if they die today, they become manure for better ones tomorrow.
Telemedicine startups in Nigeria need to start doing this to make sure that they attract and keep users of their digital health technologies.
You can still apply to be part of the “Digital Health Bootcamp.”
The current healthcare trends necessitate creative and adaptable methods for improving results and decreasing shortfalls. Even with major progress in science & technology, the healthcare
To resist innovation is to resist change, and resisting change is simply fighting growth and development.
In the tech ecosystem, it’s getting harder to find experienced software engineers [and other skilled and experienced tech professionals], and this shortage has made the no-code movement even more popular, paving the way for a new crop of creators and innovators.
These experts have bagged numerous international and national awards in the area of digital health and healthcare and have made [and are still making] tangible contributions to the development of digital health in Africa and the world.
“There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to work toward the same goals.” – Idowu Koyenikan.
“Clinicians predict that over the next 10 years “technology literacy” will become their most valuable capability, ranking higher than “clinical knowledge.”
We believe that healthcare professionals in Africa can innovate & lead Africa’s healthcare ecosystem into greatness using the power of digital life; these sums up our mission as a community.
mapped out steps, processes & procedures that will make the migration process hassle-free for nurses in Nigeria.
The most creative innovations are often new combinations of old ideas. Innovative thinkers don’t create, they connect. Furthermore, the most effective way to make progress is
Don’t try to re-invent the wheel. Innovation is not about new things, it’s about how we are able to create from the work already on the ground.
With the metaverse, we can augment the telemedicine experience with immersive “patient to provider interactions” and even make certain medical procedures friendly and safe.
Where do you start from? There’s always a spot, a point, a location — where you are planted — That’s where you must start from.
Do you want to migrate into the tech space? I wrote this specifically for Nurses who are aching to enter the world of tech. Read on to find out how to hunt for a good mentor and more…
“To become a better you, work in a team of like-minded people and learn new things you don’t know.” Israelmore Ayivor.
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…
Though getting nursing scholarships may not be very easy, there are still institutions & academic bodies out there that offer scholarships to nurses.
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.
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.
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: A Viable Solution To The Age-long Problem of Lack of True Mentorship Among Young Nurses in Africa & The World.
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.
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].
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.
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.
Can Digital Therapies cure Chronic Diseases? Read how this Digital Therapy is taking on the challenge of eradicating Type 2 Diabetes.
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.
After the pandemic, we have become more cautious, about how prepared we are in managing natural disasters; like the coronavirus outbreak.
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…
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.
In Nigeria, Critical Care Nurses are among the most highly paid nursing professionals – especially in the private healthcare sector.
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.
“We are on the front lines of patient care and medical technology, which gives us the prime advantage when it comes to new ideas.”
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.
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).
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.
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).
“Innovation is creativity, imagination & original thinking.”
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.
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.
This Nurses’ week, I will be writing a series of fresh blog posts about Nursing (I will include some personal stuff – this is blogging,
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.
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
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.
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.
“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}…
“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.”
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.
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.
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.
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 is part of The Innovation Series published on CARE CITY BLOG, that tries to spur Registered Nurses to follow the golden path of innovation.
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.
Innovation at its best. Intrinsic remote haemodynamic monitoring of heart physiologies.
Drug dosage calculation is a vital aspect of clinical practice.
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.
Digital health. What do you think it is? Follow me on this new series as I gradually unfold the broad concept of digital health.
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).
Find out all you need to know about The National Drug Dosage Calculation Competition for Nurses, 2022.
Ahmed Dagane’s victory will open the gates to many more leadership victories in the nursing community and healthcare leadership in general.
Leadership is influence — nothing more, nothing less John Maxwell Our progress in life as leaders greatly depends on the kind of relationships we decide
Leadership is first about purpose, then sacrifice, and then tough commitment.
We have all been touched by the scourge of bad governance. It’s like a pestilence that has ravaged our land without mercy as we watch, helpless. The Nigerian healthcare
In the year 2017, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched a global initiative to reduce medication-related errors by 50% in 5 years. This is 2022,
What You Need To Know And What It Tells Us About The Future of Digitalization Of Healthcare In Nigeria.
True education rescues the mind from captivity, it liberates the soul and brings out the treasures buried in a man.
“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.” Robert H. Shuller When you look around you, what do you see? A wonderful world full of
Dr. Adhanom Gabreyhesus has been an inspirational African healthcare leader. We made a brief compilation of some facts about this amazing leader.
Have you been thinking of migrating into the field of digital technologies? I answered some popular questions I am always being asked by healthcare professionals about migrating into the field of digital technologies.
We are ‘sooo’ excited right now! We are getting closer to starting our Digital Health Bootcamp. It’s our first and it will determine a lot of things in our
I was fascinated by it. By the sheer power generated when people who share similar visions come together to labor, build structures, and develop working systems.
This is the official report of our Digital Health Conference held in April.
Have you seized your spot in the future of Digital Health in Africa?
Celebrating Nurses’ Week Reimagining Nursing Leadership: Re-positioning For Impact In A Digitally Driven World In today’s fast-paced and digitally-driven world, it’s critical that nurses keep up
Hold on tight to your ideas. Even if they die today, they become manure for better ones tomorrow.
Telemedicine startups in Nigeria need to start doing this to make sure that they attract and keep users of their digital health technologies.
You can still apply to be part of the “Digital Health Bootcamp.”
The current healthcare trends necessitate creative and adaptable methods for improving results and decreasing shortfalls. Even with major progress in science & technology, the healthcare
To resist innovation is to resist change, and resisting change is simply fighting growth and development.
In the tech ecosystem, it’s getting harder to find experienced software engineers [and other skilled and experienced tech professionals], and this shortage has made the no-code movement even more popular, paving the way for a new crop of creators and innovators.
These experts have bagged numerous international and national awards in the area of digital health and healthcare and have made [and are still making] tangible contributions to the development of digital health in Africa and the world.
“There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to work toward the same goals.” – Idowu Koyenikan.
“Clinicians predict that over the next 10 years “technology literacy” will become their most valuable capability, ranking higher than “clinical knowledge.”
We believe that healthcare professionals in Africa can innovate & lead Africa’s healthcare ecosystem into greatness using the power of digital life; these sums up our mission as a community.
mapped out steps, processes & procedures that will make the migration process hassle-free for nurses in Nigeria.
The most creative innovations are often new combinations of old ideas. Innovative thinkers don’t create, they connect. Furthermore, the most effective way to make progress is
Don’t try to re-invent the wheel. Innovation is not about new things, it’s about how we are able to create from the work already on the ground.
With the metaverse, we can augment the telemedicine experience with immersive “patient to provider interactions” and even make certain medical procedures friendly and safe.
Where do you start from? There’s always a spot, a point, a location — where you are planted — That’s where you must start from.
Do you want to migrate into the tech space? I wrote this specifically for Nurses who are aching to enter the world of tech. Read on to find out how to hunt for a good mentor and more…
“To become a better you, work in a team of like-minded people and learn new things you don’t know.” Israelmore Ayivor.
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…
Though getting nursing scholarships may not be very easy, there are still institutions & academic bodies out there that offer scholarships to nurses.
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.
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.
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: A Viable Solution To The Age-long Problem of Lack of True Mentorship Among Young Nurses in Africa & The World.
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.
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].
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.
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.
Can Digital Therapies cure Chronic Diseases? Read how this Digital Therapy is taking on the challenge of eradicating Type 2 Diabetes.
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.
After the pandemic, we have become more cautious, about how prepared we are in managing natural disasters; like the coronavirus outbreak.
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…
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.
In Nigeria, Critical Care Nurses are among the most highly paid nursing professionals – especially in the private healthcare sector.
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.
“We are on the front lines of patient care and medical technology, which gives us the prime advantage when it comes to new ideas.”
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.
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).
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.
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).
“Innovation is creativity, imagination & original thinking.”
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.
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.
This Nurses’ week, I will be writing a series of fresh blog posts about Nursing (I will include some personal stuff – this is blogging,
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.
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
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.
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.
“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}…
“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.”
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.
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.
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.
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 is part of The Innovation Series published on CARE CITY BLOG, that tries to spur Registered Nurses to follow the golden path of innovation.
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.
Innovation at its best. Intrinsic remote haemodynamic monitoring of heart physiologies.
Drug dosage calculation is a vital aspect of clinical practice.
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.
Digital health. What do you think it is? Follow me on this new series as I gradually unfold the broad concept of digital health.
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).
A startup or a company is like a living organism. It needs the right atmosphere and must be around the right kind of people to live long enough to achieve its purpose…
Find out all you need to know about The National Drug Dosage Calculation Competition for Nurses, 2022.
Ahmed Dagane’s victory will open the gates to many more leadership victories in the nursing community and healthcare leadership in general.
Leadership is influence — nothing more, nothing less John Maxwell Our progress in life as leaders greatly depends on the kind of relationships we decide
Leadership is first about purpose, then sacrifice, and then tough commitment.
We have all been touched by the scourge of bad governance. It’s like a pestilence that has ravaged our land without mercy as we watch, helpless. The Nigerian healthcare
In the year 2017, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched a global initiative to reduce medication-related errors by 50% in 5 years. This is 2022,
What You Need To Know And What It Tells Us About The Future of Digitalization Of Healthcare In Nigeria.
True education rescues the mind from captivity, it liberates the soul and brings out the treasures buried in a man.
“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.” Robert H. Shuller When you look around you, what do you see? A wonderful world full of
Dr. Adhanom Gabreyhesus has been an inspirational African healthcare leader. We made a brief compilation of some facts about this amazing leader.
Have you been thinking of migrating into the field of digital technologies? I answered some popular questions I am always being asked by healthcare professionals about migrating into the field of digital technologies.
We are ‘sooo’ excited right now! We are getting closer to starting our Digital Health Bootcamp. It’s our first and it will determine a lot of things in our
I was fascinated by it. By the sheer power generated when people who share similar visions come together to labor, build structures, and develop working systems.
This is the official report of our Digital Health Conference held in April.
Have you seized your spot in the future of Digital Health in Africa?
Celebrating Nurses’ Week Reimagining Nursing Leadership: Re-positioning For Impact In A Digitally Driven World In today’s fast-paced and digitally-driven world, it’s critical that nurses keep up
Hold on tight to your ideas. Even if they die today, they become manure for better ones tomorrow.
Telemedicine startups in Nigeria need to start doing this to make sure that they attract and keep users of their digital health technologies.
You can still apply to be part of the “Digital Health Bootcamp.”
The current healthcare trends necessitate creative and adaptable methods for improving results and decreasing shortfalls. Even with major progress in science & technology, the healthcare
To resist innovation is to resist change, and resisting change is simply fighting growth and development.
In the tech ecosystem, it’s getting harder to find experienced software engineers [and other skilled and experienced tech professionals], and this shortage has made the no-code movement even more popular, paving the way for a new crop of creators and innovators.
These experts have bagged numerous international and national awards in the area of digital health and healthcare and have made [and are still making] tangible contributions to the development of digital health in Africa and the world.
“There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to work toward the same goals.” – Idowu Koyenikan.
“Clinicians predict that over the next 10 years “technology literacy” will become their most valuable capability, ranking higher than “clinical knowledge.”
We believe that healthcare professionals in Africa can innovate & lead Africa’s healthcare ecosystem into greatness using the power of digital life; these sums up our mission as a community.
mapped out steps, processes & procedures that will make the migration process hassle-free for nurses in Nigeria.
The most creative innovations are often new combinations of old ideas. Innovative thinkers don’t create, they connect. Furthermore, the most effective way to make progress is
Don’t try to re-invent the wheel. Innovation is not about new things, it’s about how we are able to create from the work already on the ground.
With the metaverse, we can augment the telemedicine experience with immersive “patient to provider interactions” and even make certain medical procedures friendly and safe.
Where do you start from? There’s always a spot, a point, a location — where you are planted — That’s where you must start from.
Do you want to migrate into the tech space? I wrote this specifically for Nurses who are aching to enter the world of tech. Read on to find out how to hunt for a good mentor and more…
“To become a better you, work in a team of like-minded people and learn new things you don’t know.” Israelmore Ayivor.
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…
Though getting nursing scholarships may not be very easy, there are still institutions & academic bodies out there that offer scholarships to nurses.
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.
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.
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: A Viable Solution To The Age-long Problem of Lack of True Mentorship Among Young Nurses in Africa & The World.
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.
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].
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.
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.
Can Digital Therapies cure Chronic Diseases? Read how this Digital Therapy is taking on the challenge of eradicating Type 2 Diabetes.
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.
After the pandemic, we have become more cautious, about how prepared we are in managing natural disasters; like the coronavirus outbreak.
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…
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.
In Nigeria, Critical Care Nurses are among the most highly paid nursing professionals – especially in the private healthcare sector.
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.
“We are on the front lines of patient care and medical technology, which gives us the prime advantage when it comes to new ideas.”
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.
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).
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.
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).
“Innovation is creativity, imagination & original thinking.”
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.
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.
This Nurses’ week, I will be writing a series of fresh blog posts about Nursing (I will include some personal stuff – this is blogging,
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.
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
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.
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.
“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}…
“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.”
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.
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.
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.
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 is part of The Innovation Series published on CARE CITY BLOG, that tries to spur Registered Nurses to follow the golden path of innovation.
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.
Innovation at its best. Intrinsic remote haemodynamic monitoring of heart physiologies.
Drug dosage calculation is a vital aspect of clinical practice.
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.
Digital health. What do you think it is? Follow me on this new series as I gradually unfold the broad concept of digital health.
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).
Discover how technology enhances biomedical practices and what the future of “tech in biomedical sciences” will look like.
Don’t try to re-invent the wheel. Innovation is not about new things, it’s about how we are able to create from the work already on the ground.
Find out all you need to know about The National Drug Dosage Calculation Competition for Nurses, 2022.
Ahmed Dagane’s victory will open the gates to many more leadership victories in the nursing community and healthcare leadership in general.
Leadership is influence — nothing more, nothing less John Maxwell Our progress in life as leaders greatly depends on the kind of relationships we decide
Leadership is first about purpose, then sacrifice, and then tough commitment.
We have all been touched by the scourge of bad governance. It’s like a pestilence that has ravaged our land without mercy as we watch, helpless. The Nigerian healthcare
In the year 2017, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched a global initiative to reduce medication-related errors by 50% in 5 years. This is 2022,
What You Need To Know And What It Tells Us About The Future of Digitalization Of Healthcare In Nigeria.
True education rescues the mind from captivity, it liberates the soul and brings out the treasures buried in a man.
“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.” Robert H. Shuller When you look around you, what do you see? A wonderful world full of
Dr. Adhanom Gabreyhesus has been an inspirational African healthcare leader. We made a brief compilation of some facts about this amazing leader.
Have you been thinking of migrating into the field of digital technologies? I answered some popular questions I am always being asked by healthcare professionals about migrating into the field of digital technologies.
We are ‘sooo’ excited right now! We are getting closer to starting our Digital Health Bootcamp. It’s our first and it will determine a lot of things in our
I was fascinated by it. By the sheer power generated when people who share similar visions come together to labor, build structures, and develop working systems.
This is the official report of our Digital Health Conference held in April.
Have you seized your spot in the future of Digital Health in Africa?
Celebrating Nurses’ Week Reimagining Nursing Leadership: Re-positioning For Impact In A Digitally Driven World In today’s fast-paced and digitally-driven world, it’s critical that nurses keep up
Hold on tight to your ideas. Even if they die today, they become manure for better ones tomorrow.
Telemedicine startups in Nigeria need to start doing this to make sure that they attract and keep users of their digital health technologies.
You can still apply to be part of the “Digital Health Bootcamp.”
The current healthcare trends necessitate creative and adaptable methods for improving results and decreasing shortfalls. Even with major progress in science & technology, the healthcare
To resist innovation is to resist change, and resisting change is simply fighting growth and development.
In the tech ecosystem, it’s getting harder to find experienced software engineers [and other skilled and experienced tech professionals], and this shortage has made the no-code movement even more popular, paving the way for a new crop of creators and innovators.
These experts have bagged numerous international and national awards in the area of digital health and healthcare and have made [and are still making] tangible contributions to the development of digital health in Africa and the world.
“There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to work toward the same goals.” – Idowu Koyenikan.
“Clinicians predict that over the next 10 years “technology literacy” will become their most valuable capability, ranking higher than “clinical knowledge.”
We believe that healthcare professionals in Africa can innovate & lead Africa’s healthcare ecosystem into greatness using the power of digital life; these sums up our mission as a community.
mapped out steps, processes & procedures that will make the migration process hassle-free for nurses in Nigeria.
The most creative innovations are often new combinations of old ideas. Innovative thinkers don’t create, they connect. Furthermore, the most effective way to make progress is
With the metaverse, we can augment the telemedicine experience with immersive “patient to provider interactions” and even make certain medical procedures friendly and safe.
Where do you start from? There’s always a spot, a point, a location — where you are planted — That’s where you must start from.
Do you want to migrate into the tech space? I wrote this specifically for Nurses who are aching to enter the world of tech. Read on to find out how to hunt for a good mentor and more…
“To become a better you, work in a team of like-minded people and learn new things you don’t know.” Israelmore Ayivor.
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…
Though getting nursing scholarships may not be very easy, there are still institutions & academic bodies out there that offer scholarships to nurses.
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.
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.
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: A Viable Solution To The Age-long Problem of Lack of True Mentorship Among Young Nurses in Africa & The World.
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.
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].
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.
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.
Can Digital Therapies cure Chronic Diseases? Read how this Digital Therapy is taking on the challenge of eradicating Type 2 Diabetes.
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.
After the pandemic, we have become more cautious, about how prepared we are in managing natural disasters; like the coronavirus outbreak.
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…
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.
In Nigeria, Critical Care Nurses are among the most highly paid nursing professionals – especially in the private healthcare sector.
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.
“We are on the front lines of patient care and medical technology, which gives us the prime advantage when it comes to new ideas.”
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.
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).
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.
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).
“Innovation is creativity, imagination & original thinking.”
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.
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.
This Nurses’ week, I will be writing a series of fresh blog posts about Nursing (I will include some personal stuff – this is blogging,
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.
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
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.
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.
