xoxo

Welcome to my ghost ship

[Kenny Oluwatosin RN, Msc. @Nrs_Kethz]

“If you want it that bad, just go to medical school”

This is the same lazy line we’ve heard for decades, and it collapses the moment you look beyond Nigeria’s borders or even beyond your own WhatsApp group.

Let me educate you gently, the way a senior nurse educates a bright but inexperienced house officer:

1. We don’t want to be doctors. We want to be the best nurses the world has ever seen.
Thousands of us have turned down medical school admission letters because we chose nursing, not as a consolation prize. We love nursing. We love the art, the science, the 24-hour accountability, the family counselling at 3 a.m., the wound that finally heals after weeks, the mother who walks out with her baby because we caught the sepsis early.
We are not “failed doctors.” We are deliberate, proud, highly educated nurses.

2. The world you quote as the gold standard has already moved on – dramatically.
- UK: Nurse Consultants lead stroke units, run endoscopy lists, prescribe, admit, and discharge.
- USA: 350,000+ Nurse Practitioners and DNPs are the primary care providers for entire counties. Many rural hospitals are kept open only because of them.
- Australia: Clinical Nurse Consultants are statutory Grade 4–5 roles with higher take-home pay than most registrars.
- Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Netherlands – same story.
None of these countries told their nurses “just go to medical school.” They simply allowed nursing to evolve.

3. The irony you seem to miss
While some Nigerian doctors are shouting “go to medical school,” thousands of Nigerian-trained doctors are in the UK, USA and Canada right now writing IELTS, OET, USMLE, MCCQE – begging to be allowed to retrain as… nurses.
Yes, your colleagues who passed through the same medical school you’re so proud of are flooding nursing programmes abroad because they have seen that nursing, at its highest level, offers better work-life balance, respect, autonomy and, in many cases, higher earnings than junior doctor posts.
They are not ashamed. They are being realistic.

4. We are not competing for your stethoscope. We are protecting patients.
Evidence (not sentiment) shows that where Nurse Consultants and DNPs practise, mortality falls, length of stay drops, patient satisfaction rises, and physician burnout decreases because doctors can focus on what only doctors can do.
We are trying to give Nigeria the same gift the rest of the world already enjoys.

5. Finally, the hill I will die on
Nursing is not medicine’s junior sibling.
It is a parallel profession with its own doctorate, its own evidence base, its own scope, and its own irreplaceable value.
The day Nigeria recognises that is the day our maternal mortality, neonatal mortality and sepsis deaths start falling like they have everywhere else.

So no, Doctor, we will not “just go to medical school.”
We will keep earning our Fellowships, our Master’s, our DNPs and PhDs in nursing.
We will keep showing up for night duty when some doctors are writing resignation letters.
And we will keep pushing until Nigerian patients get the same standard of nursing care that patients in London, Toronto and New York take for granted.

Feel free to join us in lifting Nigeria up, or kindly step aside while we do it.

We are not becoming doctors.
We are becoming the future of healthcare.

And we are already here.

[Premier League @premierleague]

It's good to be back.

[Ibilolia A @saltypip]

@pharmparrot Please dear, what color should we pick for Asoebi cos this wan go LOUD... Tetracycline, yellow and red or Doxycycline, Green?

[xoxo @yayosebling]

@gbengaonabs Thought so too

[Kvngwalex Collection @MrWalexy]

@piersmorgan @Auba U can follow him to Barca or pack to his house 🏡 so far u want Arsenal to be worshipping him with his wrong attitude....
What's ur impact when he was doing all those nonsense were u not alive?
U want club to set a different rules 4 him & for others bcuz is a captain....

[Celestine Mbaluka @mbaluks]

@piersmorgan @Auba So the manager was supposed to privately humiliate him? Every action has consequences and the least anyone can do is take responsibility. Why did Auba like CR7 post after we lost to Manchester United? Mistake maybe. He was the captain. Wish the good man well and move on.

[Ima @sharonabak]

It’s been about a week in a new country and I’ve been approached for a relationship by a Nigerian man who has a wife and 3 kids in Nigeria

[𝕂𝕦𝕤𝕤𝕞𝕒𝕟 @kusssman]

Nigerian women show off their baby bump everyday 😂😂😂

[🇳🇬...Ot'obong ...🇳🇬 @_kingsleyandrew]

@followlastma
@jidesanwoolu
Please look into this matter thoroughly..
More will still happen and the citizens will not take it likely..

[xoxo @yayosebling]

Na the pyramid scheme wey dem dey always use be this..... the #MMM that comes up every 4 years.

[Morris Monye @Morris_Monye]

I hope this is not what APC is doing?

I hope so.

[SOLIBAY @solibaysings]

Super eagles punishing Sudan for the sins of buhari , nice one #TeamNigeria #AFCON

[xoxo @yayosebling]

@infinitybabs @justsociety4all Agbero at the musterpoint

[Valerian Nwadike 🇻🇦 @valerian247]

Let it be on record that it’s Only Arise Tv network that defied the ban and remained on twitter.

[xoxo @yayosebling]

@gbengaonabs I have been asking you for 2k since high school.... so I only need to dye my hair?

[Sandra Ezekwesili @SEzekwesili]

2022 is off to a great start.

I'm now @NigeriainfoFM's Group Brand Manager for all our stations nationwide (Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt).

I'm really excited about this new role 💃💃💃💃

[Pamilerin Adegoke @Pamilerin]

To those that left twitter after the suspension, welcome back oooo

[xoxo @yayosebling]

@pamilerin @_Demiiee Ese o.....

[JBA @JummaiBulama]

❤️❤️❤️😩😩😩God I miss this 😩😩😩😩

[osina3 @OsinaJames]

Like if he has always been there for you...Thank you LORD🙏

Lagos Tompolo Wizkid Raining The prophet