Nurse Imo Abasi Moses AKS NANNM Chairlady From:  NURSING AMBASSADORS OF NIGERIA. To: Comrade Nrs. Ambassador ImoAbasi Moses, State Chairman (Newly Elected), National Association Of Nigeria Nurses And Midwives (NANNM), Akwa Ibom State Council. Comrade Nrs. Ambassador Emem David, State Treasurer (Newly Elected), NANNM, Aks Council. Akwa Ibom State Nurses (Game Changers) All Members Of Nursing Ambassadors Of Nigeria (Dreamers And Visionaries). CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The leadership and entire members of Nursing Ambassadors of Nigeria (NAON) express heartiest congratulations to you on your golden victory at the just concluded NANNM bye-election as the 7th State Chairman and State Treasurer into Akwa Ibom State Administrative Council. It's such a privilege to our Nursing Ambassadors of Nigeria that products of the organization have become the State Chairman and State Treasurer to the fulfillment of the organizational goal in the area of leadership! More to win. We are extr

   *BRIEF HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE OF THE ORGANIZATION* The body now known and called Nursing Ambassadors of Nigeria (NAON) was a brain child of a few Nurses like Nrs. Onoitem David, Nrs. Anietie Adams, Nrs. Nseobong Uloh, Nrs. Ufonime Ibanga, Nrs. Udoma Nelson, Nrs. Edidiong Ekure, Nrs. Beatrice Okposin, Nrs. Roseline Enang, Nrs. Kufre Usen, Nrs. Stacy Udoh, Nrs. Emem David, Nrs. Ofonime Akan, Nrs. Aniefiok Emek, Nrs. UduakAbasi Umoh, Nrs. Uduak Ndem, and others too numerous to mention, when had the mindset and mandate of re branding the image of our dear Nursing profession. In 2017, this vision came into limelight as 2014/2015 Nurses Forum, Akwa Ibom State sequel to a lot of challenges in the profession vis-à-vis the discharge of services and subsequent remuneration. It later metamorphosed into Akwa Ibom State Nurses Forum to incorporate more Nurses working within the three (3) tiers of health care delivery system. To further broaden its scope, the name was changed to what it’s present

Nigeria -  The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila has intervened in the planned strike action by the Joint Health Sector Union and the Assembly of Healthcare Professionals (JOHESU), FCT chapter, over issues of irregularities in salary payment, among others. The Speaker, at a meeting with the officials of the union at the National Assembly, Abuja on Monday, pleaded with the health workers to extend the ultimatum they gave the FCT Administration on the matter. The JOHESU leadership had on May 7, given the government up to May 28 to address the issues of irregularities in salary payment since January, non-payment of arrears of promotion from 2016, 2017 and 2018, delay in the release of conversion and proper placement of some of the workers, among others. But Gbajabiamila, while pleading with the FCT health workers to tarry a while on the issue, promised them that the House would deliberate on the matter at plenary on Tuesday, May 19, 2020, and come up with a s

The Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria has come out with clear term as its not in support of weeding examination in Nursing and Midwifery training institutions in Nigeria. The Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria advised the institutions not to admit beyond its quota. The three months examination popularly known as PTS Examination, is done to weed away the so-called "weak students". Its common in schools of nursing and schools of Midwifery. Its a culture that has been practiced for over decades. Its also a control technique to abide with the quota of expected number of students awarded by NMCN. The Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria received was petitioned, it was verified and conducted investigation into such practices and found it to be true. Hence, NMCN condemned such process clearly as stated below: Subsequently, the Board of the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria as its 51st General Meeting held from 18th - 19th December, 2019 has approved t

Nigeria - Nurse Vivian Akudo Nwogu, popularly known as The Alpha Nurse (@thealphanurse), is a Registered Nurse with a speciality training in Fertility Nursing. She's a media savvy, marriage and lifestyle blogger, an inventor of 7keema - a mobile application for nurses, and founder of Nurse Hub Africa. As much as she is a passionate nurse, her mission is to positively influence the wives and wives-to-be in stabilizing their relationships. Nurse Akudo Nwogu received a meritorious award for her passionate and selfless service towards women. The award was presented by African Leading Women Awards, 2019 edition. The reward is to encourage her to do more. Meanwhile, another lady of virtue and humor was also awarded for her dedications and steadfastness in women affairs. Fadila Saleh Bade (a.k.a. Lady-bade) is a graduate, registered nurse. She's an activist and a public speaker. She's the founder of Let's Talk Nursing. She  also received a meritorious award at the just

France-  A nurse and one of her patients were found dead Monday.  The perpetrator of both murders was still on the run Tuesday night. A nurse found dead at the edge of a road with her hands tied and a pensioner found dead at home, her hands sliced.  A macabre enigma that still had not been resolved Tuesday night.  On Monday morning, at 7:15 am, motorists  discover the body of Karine Foucher, a  42-year-old  liberal nurse  , along a road in Pannes (Loiret).  This mother of two has her hands tied by electric cables and has many deadly wounds.  Her autopsy, conducted on Tuesday, reveals that she succumbed to multiple blows to stab in the neck, face and chest. The investigators of the research section of the Orleans gendarmerie make the link with another homicide committed that same Monday morning in Châlette-sur-Loing in the same department.  That of Jacques Samson, an 84-year-old pensioner living in the district of Pontonnerie.  The octogenarian, who had lived alone in his lodge

France - The nursing students mobilized this morning before the various regional councils of France, to protest against the "illegal" additional fees requested in the IFSIs and to ask for better access to university services. They came from Salon de Provence, Avignon, or Nice to defend their rights and those of future generations of students.  Today, about fifty ESI gathered in Marseille, at the call of the Fnesi (National Federation of Nursing Students).  "ESI angry!  We are all here for this fight again   , "they chant in chorus. It was a strong will of the Fnesi, even.  "   It is the regions that allocate subsidies to health facilities, which redistribute them to IFSI,   " recalls Felix Ledoux, referent PACA mobilization for Fnesi. The problem ?  Subsidies do not live up to expectations, and IFSIs, to work, often have to charge extra fees to students.  "   Students are already paying significant fees, related to student status: 170 euros regi

Nigeria - A group of young nurses under the ages of 'Nurse Revolutions' took to street in Lagos State, to sensitive the public against patronising quacks. These vibrant nurses described the menace of quackery in health sector as a virus which must be tamed. The walk was a way of enlightening to public that they have right to know who is wearing the white gown.

Belgium - The number of foreign nurses in Belgium decreased for the first time since 2013, according to Federal Public Health figures published today in De Tijd. In 2017, there were 8,432 non-Belgian nurses working in the country, a number on steady increase since 2013. In 2018 there were 8,164 — a slight decrease. Belgium has been trying for years to attract nurses from other countries in order to address the staff shortage. Other countries, however, are now facing the same problem. The Brussels Times

The number of mental health nurses in England has slumped by more than a tenth over the past decade, new figures have revealed. This is despite  commitments from both Theresa May  and her predecessor,  David Cameron , to boost resources for mental health services, which many medical professionals say are now in crisis. The total mental health nursing workforce has decreased by 10.6% since 2009, according to the Royal College of Nursing(RCN). While numbers of mental health nurses have grown in some areas, such as community care, they have fallen elsewhere. Numbers are down by a quarter (25.9%) in acute care and inpatient care – where the number of mental health nurses has fallen by more than 6,000 over the decade. Donna Kinnair, appointed as RCN chief executive and general secretary last month, will use a speech to the group’s annual congress on Monday to call on ministers to address England’s 40,000 nursing vacancies, and point out the new figures on the reduction in special

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 who resuscitated my husband three times in hopes to keep him alive until I could get to him to say goodbye. I didn’t make it for I was caring for someone