What is the Nurses' week to you? Another celebration? Another moment to upload pictures or videos of Nurses dancing, wearing scrubs, and choreographing all the way? Oh, don't get me wrong, I am a fan of all the celebrations and colors, but deep down, I wish we see more to it.
Author: Ayinla Daniel
Cardiothoracic Critical Care Nurse, Writer/Blogger, Digital/Health Tech enthusiast (with a special interest in Data Science, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning), founder of Care City & Apotheosis, Editor at the Institute of Nursing Research Nigeria, avid reader; lover of good books, Amateur artist; art enthusiast. Amateur programmer (Python) Writing about everything Nursing, Digital Health, Innovation, Leadership and all beautiful & inspiring things in between.
Nurturing Your Innovative Ideas: Fighting To Keep Them Alive | Leadership
You have to be adamant, determined & ready to fight for your ideas like you were fighting for your own life. Yes, it's that tough. If you do not fight for your ideas, I can boldly tell you that nobody will fight for you, yes, not even your Mother or Wife, they have their own battles to fight. So, it's all up to you, to fight for what you believe.
Care City’s Partnership With ZACRAC: Partners For The Future Of Digital Health In Nigeria & Africa
We decided to design a free Data Science Webinar for Healthcare Professionals in Nigeria & Africa (not limited to us here in Africa though), the free webinar will aim to sensitize healthcare professionals, exposing them to the realities of DATA & its wide variety of importance & use in the field of healthcare, especially in Nigeria & Africa (you all know that I have a bias & unquenchable love for my country, it's just natural, and as a leader & writer, I always make sure that this pride is showcased in all that I do).
The ‘Disabled’ Can Also Provide Safe Nursing & Medical Care | Part One
A Nurse who can not see, or who is blind. Will he or she be able to provide safe Nursing care to patients/clients? Let me divert a little bit. Will someone born blind even have the dream of becoming a Nurse or A Doctor?
Nursing Mentorship: Mentor Material
“a dyadic, long-term and reciprocal process between senior experienced nurse and a junior nurse and or a nursing student, facilitating knowledge and skill acquisition while providing psychosocial and emotional support with the aims of fostering both personal and professional development for effective role change into the nursing profession” - Shaikh Abdul Matin, Deparment of Internal Medicine, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore
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." - Alice Benjamin.
The Great Digital Shift; Why You May Be Left Behind If You Do Not Act Now | Part One
The health care industry has responded slowly to the impact of the internet, and it is understandable. But the pandemic has in a way caused us to understand better the role of the internet in health care practice. It isn't just about Health IT...
The Year After The Pandemic | Part 2
...The year 2020 looked like a historical cocktail of some sort. Having a sweet blend of celebrating heroes, and at the same time a sour taste of fighting a pandemic, amidst the worldwide political upheaval that was at that time rocking this great boat...
Ten Digital Health Technologies That Will Transform The Future Of Nursing Practice In Africa | Part 2 | Carecode Digital Health Hub
The metrics that we obtain from health records are not just mere numbers. These are important statistical virtues, that any serious scientist understands pretty well its importance to the world of science & innovation...
Ten Digital Health Technologies That Will Transform The Future Of Nursing Practice In Africa |Part 1 | Carecode Digital Health Hub
"...Why is it fertile? It's, because of the resources it has that can sustain any kind of digital idea. From human resources, which is in abundance, to a thriving healthcare landscape dotted with varied forms of healthcare services that will benefit heavily from the introduction of the future-forward concept of digital health technologies. And of course, a very large population of young people born into the era of the internet, smart phones & bitcoin..."
Nigerian Nursing & Her Many Woes – The Problem of Lack of Purpose-driven Political Representatives
"When will Nursing Nigeria be bold enough to say that they have political representatives that are unbiased embodiments of the desires of Nurses in Nigeria? Leaders who are not tainted by the dirty hands of greed. Who know what their country & profession desire..."
Five Personal Survival Tips For Newly Qualified Critical Care Nurses In Nigeria – My Humble Five | Six Minutes Read
"In Critical Care, Kidneys have stopped working, hearts are failing, lungs have collapsed, brains are shutting down, intestines have stopped moving, livers are tired, phew, it is a cocktail of organ/physiological failures here and there. You may be too busy trying to repair the lungs, and your attention has been taken away from the kidneys that have shut down for two hours, and then you have to return to trying to salvage the kidneys, and then the brain starts to sleep - Critical, I must tell you!"
Nursing After The Year Of The Pandemic | Part i
"In the wake of the pandemic, while we count losses, and nurture our wounds, we as a race, were able to still make progress in historical leaps & bounds. The gospel of Digital Health gained a wider audience & followership, as people, governments & organizations, began to realize the important need for us to have a healthcare system that had remote care woven into its fabrics."
What The Pandemic Teaches The Younger Generation About Their Health | 3 Min Reading Time
"It hit us unawares. With all our sophistication, politics & technology, we found ourselves gasping for air, as the pandemic squeezed us within its mighty unforgiving palms, driving life out of our sore lungs."
Care City Leadership Report For The Year 2020: Goals, Achievements, Strategies & The Future
"I wasn't the perfect leader, I made a lot of mistakes, and made poor decisions, but in all, I made sure I was learning, and in learning, I was growing and in growing, impact followed."
Should Africans Take The Vaccine: | Opinions | Ayinla Daniel
"Talking about vaccines. Will African countries buy these vaccines? I know that the developed world will definitely consider their children first, before even thinking about Africa, who cares about Africa?"
YOUR SKIN & YOUR WELLBEING
The human skin is anatomically & physiologically the largest external organ of the human body (covering about 22 square feet [2 square meters]). A vital member of man's anatomy. Though recent research try to tell us that there's another organ bigger than the skin. Let's leave all that for the lab guys. Ever seen a … Continue reading YOUR SKIN & YOUR WELLBEING
INFRARED LASER THERAPY 101: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW | Featured
"HigherDOSE offers low-level laser therapy with chromotherapy, color therapy that uses the science of colors to adjust body vibrations to frequencies that promote health and harmony. Just one session can leave you feeling energized and stimulate the production of collagen in skin cells."
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}.
How To Behave Around Unconscious & Dying Patients
As a healthcare professional, your conduct around unconscious and dying patients, speaks a lot about who you are.
