Inspiring Registered Nurses & Healthcare Professionals in Nigeria & Africa to do more...
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 bring our dreams to existence.
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.
We interview one Registered Nurse every month (Uhm, we try to). We want them to tell you their story, and in telling these stories, we want to inspire you to do more…
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.
Leadership
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…
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.
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…
The history of Care City & Carecode is not complete if I don’t talk about Adewumi Oluwatobi. He has been an amazing friend, partner & team member. Intelligent, adventurous & curious; what else were you expecting? Something less?
A mail connected us. During the early days of Care City (we are still in the early days), when I found my passion and was bending down to start building.
He sent me a mail, we got talking, and our passions seemed to melt into one perfect innovative lump. We shared the same dream for the nursing profession in Nigeria, Africa & the world. We worked together in creating programs our own way and putting the structure together with the little resources that we could find around us.
I am the writer & editor, he is the one who does more of implementing the ideas. I have learned & I am still learning a lot from him, and now, I want you to learn from him [his story, his motivation & what keeps him going.]
His advice & wisdom & support have helped me a lot when it comes to building what we are pursuing today. And this edition of inspire is dedicated to him, the Chief Operations Officer of Carecode, and now officially one of the Co-founders of Carecode Digital Health Hub.
I want his story to INSPIRE many out there to do more. To make them know that there is so much that they can do, and should be doing. To make them understand the power in teamwork, collaboration & friendship.
Come, let’s meet this spectacular Digital Nurse…
Nurses in the clinical area have always been on the frontline of the healthcare workforce. They are by far the largest occupation in hospitals, with 30 percent of total hospital employment and workforce, and it’s with no doubt that Nurses often put the needs of patients before their own, sometimes even before the needs of their families. This concern for others can cause conflicts that manifest as stress, anxiety, depression, and apprehension.
Hospitals are known to be both rewarding and stressful places to work. Like most workers, nurses face the challenge of balancing the demands and achievements of work with those in their private lives. It can’t be overemphasized as with the present Covid 19 pandemic, Nurses at the Critical Care areas work tirelessly all round the clock to provide for the ever-growing needs of patients. From dealing with serious medical emergencies to the long exhausting hours of work and to the grieving from the death of patients, the demands in nursing can place a lot of strain on nurses.
When nurses are under extreme pressure, burnout can occur. Thus, it is imperative that nurses learn to balance their work and personal life and to improve their mental, emotional and social wellbeing altogether.
Here are some of the strategies Nurses can implement thereby maximizing their productivity and improving their overall well-being while working at the clinical areas…
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.”
We are a healthcare community dedicated to propagating the culture of Innovation & leadership among registered nurses & healthcare professionals in the African healthcare industry...
We know it takes two to tangle. And this is why we place so much premium on collaboration, partnership & community.
“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…
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.
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.
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…
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].
Everyone knows that any scripting language shootout that doesn’t show Python as the best language is faulty by design. – Max M
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).
