In my short practice, I've learned a lot from nurses.
From learning how to pass NG tubes in babies, setting difficult lines and getting hints not to miss some critical diagnosis.
I don't know what's going on in some major centers and why they limit nurses.
All I know is that it's bullshit.
Nigerian nurses deserve better.
🚨 BREAKING NEWS: THE U.S. MAKES A STUNNING U-TURN ON FOREIGN DOCTORS 🇺🇸🩺
The Trump administration has officially lifted the visa processing ban for Nigerian and other foreign doctors. In a quiet but massive policy reversal, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has confirmed that physicians are now EXEMPT from the travel-ban related freeze that had left thousands of medical careers in limbo.
For the past few months, a "silent" processing pause for 39 countries - including Nigeria - had paralyzed the American healthcare system. Doctors were being put on administrative leave and surgeries were being canceled because the administration had stopped renewing work permits and green cards for globally trained medics.
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has now updated its official guidance to show that physicians are formally exempt from the processing suspension. This means Nigerian doctors can now finally obtain and renew their visas to practice in the U.S. without fear of deportation or job loss.
This is a massive development and a huge sigh of relief for the thousands of colleagues whose lives and careers were on hold. 🥂🇳🇬
Tag a colleague who needs to see this!
The path is open again. 🥂🙌
There is a falling standard of everything in Nigeria. The standard of governance is appalling. Moral standards in Nigeria are completely broken. The failing standards of everything in Nigeria did not start today. It seems to me that foundation for the falling standards of everything including bad governance was laid for so many years back. We are just seeing the manifestations of it today and perhaps many more years to come if something drastic is not done.
As a nation we have been planning to fail. No solid plan for high standards of values. We have been compromising so many things that should not be compromised. We compromised every thing for personal reasons and sometimes for just tribal and ethnic reasons. We have encouraged corruption and corrupt practices to earn a living. No nation develops on compromised standards of governance and self-serving interests the way we do in Nigeria. Those who have no regard for integrity are made leaders to lord over us. Today integrity and honesty have become vices rather than virtues they once were.
There are falling standards everywhere.Ordinary people on the roads are not spared. In ecclesiastical circles standards have fallen on the altar of compromise of politics and partisan gains. The fear of God has departed from us and those who have duties to lead us with example.
There is no more value in our lives again. Students who want to go to universities and other institutions cheat to do so. Lecturers aid and abet cheating as we saw in the sex for marks allegations recently. The educational sector of Nigeria is rotten like rotten egg. Most professional courses today produced half baked professionals and they inflict them on our society. Ethical standards have gone. We have replaced good standards with bad standards in every thing we do in Nigeria.
The legal profession for instance is not an exception. In those integrity and honesty were hallmarks of legal practice and once a lawyer makes a statement or undertaking to do something, he or she is bound by his words and hardly reneges on his words. Today integrity and honesty are extremely scarce in the legal profession. Some lawyers are just double faced and enjoy double standards. Legal practice in most cases is undermined by commercial gains instead of practice rooted in good practice that promotes the integrity of the profession.
The medical profession is also not an exception. Money has replaced humanity of medical professionals in Nigeria. The political class have mastered the acts of rendering no service to the people. So things are not as we expected. Humanity has taken flights from us in Nigeria. Lives of human beings have no values anymore. Government and governance are far from the people. We are just in a state of hopeless expectations. Those in power are far from the majority of the people in Nigeria.
We need to go back to our roots. The get rich syndrome must be done away with. People must work before thinking of earning and eating. Our moral standards must be raised to the standards of olden days. Children must be taught good morals. The level of negative publicity we give ourselves need to be looked into and avoided. We must promote the positive side of our lives and discourage the negative emphasis we place on tribalism and sectionalism. We must allow the best to lead and pursue good governance for the growth of tomorrow.
We must see ourselves first and foremost as Nigerians before our tribes. The idea of identifying ourselves with our tribes and religions must give way to national integration and nationalism. These are my thoughts this day. Be blessed.
One of the more painful hurts in medicine is when a patient asks for a different doctor.
To all the young clinicians out there: You will not be the right doctor for every patient. This does not mean you're a bad physician. Do not build your identity on one transfer of care.
He has every right to do this btw, he literally made a Slot chant on his own final farewell and Slot’s repaid him by bringing up all Klopp’s bad moments to make excuses for himself