The Nursing profession has many challenges. Like the human being's, these challenges could be physical, emotional or social. Sometimes, the nature of these challenges being complex, seem insurmountable. This write up features some excerpts from a little book entitled; " The Student Nurse ", a part of the  Nurse Plange-Rhule series , a reflective piece written especially for Student Nurses. The book seeks to serve as a companion to the student as he/she charts the vast straits of the sea of nursing education and clinical practice in the hope of landing safely at the shore. Health care challenges of the 21st century have been noted as complex. These complexities include an aging population, chronic diseases and a high global disease burden. High demographic statistics and a dwindling health sector workforce in many developing nations have great implications for human resource interventions. Nurses who form the bulk of any health sector workforce have been seriousl...

Today marks a historic day as Republic of Malawi becomes the first country in the world to introduce a malaria vaccine to young children in selected areas of high malaria transmission. This was contained in a message released by WHO Malawi. Republic of Malawi is located in the southeastern part of Africa, is the first African Country to pilot the Malaria Vaccine, known as RTS,S. The vaccine will be available to children from 5 months old to 2 years. WHO  Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus disclosed that the new malaria vaccine has the potential to save tens of thousands of children’s lives.  He further reiterated WHO welcomes the Government of  Republic of Malawi’s launch of the world’s first malaria vaccine today in a landmark pilot programme.

Joyce Murphy-Vandersommen, a surgical nurse and the nurse who played cards. Below is her story.                             Joyce Murphy-Vandersommen Yes, I was the nurse who played cards with a dying patient at night, my son. I would wake up in the morning and go to work and not have a free moment as I tried to heal and comfort someone else’s mother, father, son, sister brother and daughter. Knowing I was going to lose my own son, I still gave my all to yours. I prayed and I cried with many patients and their families for those who did not make it. I comforted their families as my own heart was breaking for I felt their pain. Yet once again I would play cards with that young man, my youngest son I could not save.                                   Ryan Vandersommen One year later it was those card playing nurses ...

HOME CARE NURSING IN AFRICA: FUNDAMENTAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES Home Care Nursing is an integral part of Public health services / Community health nursing. This book is a complete guide and manual for all professional healthcare providers, to be enlightened and adequately informed on home care nursing. It is an educational resource with practical orientation and concept of home care nursing. This book is the first of its kind, it is African Edition, hence dissect and digest home care nursing with emphasis on Africa perspective. It contains over 600 pages, available on EBook and paperback from Amazon. It can be read free on Kindle Unlimited as well borrow. It reflects largely four African countries which include; Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa. The authors are well informed on home care nursing with their experiences as home care nurses in Africa and U.S.A. OMOLOLA A.O, a public health strategist and expert, had about a decade experience as home care nurse in Nigeria. ...

HOME CARE NURSE: THE CENTRAL FOCUS OF HOME HEALTH CARE Author: OMOLOLA Adams O. RPHN. Public Health Strategist & Expert Home care nurses provide in-home health services for patients and their families. Their visits not only allow patients to remain in the comfort of their home but also help family caregivers stay abreast of their loved ones' health. Working in alliance with a physician, they coordinate and manage patients’ at-home care plan (Luther 2018).Home health nursing is a nursing specialty in which nurses provide multidimensional home care to patients of all ages (De Vliegher, et al 2015). Home Care Nursing Services focused on personalised care, attention to detail and an unmatched standard of nursing and caring excellence. Home care nurses are largely on in-home caring and private home nursing services. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE Professor Christopoulou Ioanna, in his article titled home nursing care described the history of home care...

AFRICA - Ghana has started phase one of malaria vaccine implementation in selected districts across the country. RTS, S, also known as Mosquirix, is an injectable vaccine developed to protect against Plasmodium falciparum malaria in children. The vaccine will reduce the episodes of clinical malaria and the chances of severe malaria.              Image: Medical News Today The RTS, S will be administered to about 120 - 150, 000 children per year within a period of 2 to 3 years after its implementation. It is expected that at least 50,000 malaria cases will be averted and approximately 750 children saved from dying in intervention areas. The programme will be piloted for 2 to 3 years in 33 selected districts in 6 regions-- Central, Oti, Bono, Bono East, Ahafo and Volta. At a press briefing in Accra, the Director General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Anthony Nsiah-Asare, said, the Mosquirix is an additional intervention to accelerate Ghana's...

A new study has investigated oxytocin's effects on the brain regions that help control eating behavior to explore the possibility of using this hormone as a treatment for obesity.        Image: Medical News Today Oxytocin is a hormone that plays an essential role in social interaction, trust, anxiety, sexual reproduction, childbirth, and mother-infant bonding. As such, people sometimes refer to it as the "love hormone." This hormone increases the contraction of the uterus during labor and stimulates milk production. Most discussions about oxytocin focus on its role during childbirth, but it also affects other aspects of bodily functioning, including our relationship with food. This hormone weakens the brain's reward signals for food, and it affects our eating behavior and metabolism. According to recent research, which the team presented on Monday at ENDO 2019, the Endocrine Society's annual meeting in New Orleans, LA,...