2020 WDD: NURSES MAKES THE DIFFERENCE

 The theme for 2020 world diabetes day is DIABETES: NURSES MAKES THE DIFFERENCE.

Most people living with diabetes often require the service of a nurse especially those who have complications and are hospitalized. 

Nurses are involved in all round care for diabetics, starting from simple checking of the blood glucose level, counseling, administration of medicine to patients, assist in clean up of patients, etc. Nurses are just wonderful professionals.

Generally, in Africa and Nigeria in particular, there is excessive workload on our nurses, in my opinion this is the reason why it is perceived that nurses in the general hospitals are harsh on patients where as it's a function of work overload in most cases. In most hospitals, you can fine a nurse or two on night shift, having the responsibility to cater for all the patients in a single ward, this ought not to be so.

I want to use this opportunity to call on employers at all level in our health facilities to look into the problem of work overload as it concerns nurses. When a nurse have too many patients to care for, it does not only frustrate the nurse but also reduces the quality of care the patient is suppose to get. It is also important that health care facilities maintain the practice of retraining their nurses through organisation of workshops, seminars and continuous development programs.

Most importantly, it is advisable that everyone have basic knowl

edge of  diabetes, it's signs and symptoms and it's management and care, this will help cut down the burden on nursing care and also prevent complications on the part of the patient. 

We look forward to having a week long discussions on diabetes, nursing care and how  patients and their care givers can help reduce the burden on nurses. 

DIABETES CONCERNS EVERYONE, please take action to help prevent it and it's complications.

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SARS-CoV-2, on wearing mask and gloves

Hey Guys,
Let me quickly address some issues on wearing of mask and personal protection as the SARS-CoV-2 infection continue to rise in Nigeria (may God help our effort to bring it to control) , please read through and be guided.

ON WEARING OF MASK
Must I wear mask?
The answer depends on your location, if you are coming out to the public knowing you are going to be meeting a lot of other people who will be talking to you, OHOOOO YES, WEAR A MASK!!!
We are currently at the level of community transmission, what this means is that you can get infected right at your door step, so please wear a mask when you are out, you never can tell who have the virus without symptoms.
I know wearing this mask can be very uncomfortable, especially the cloth mask, that's why you should catch some air in your safe zone like when in your car alone or walking alone on the street, but once you are around anyone, be sure to use your mask.
And please if you wear mask ensure your NOSE and MOUTH is covered else you are not masked yet, and if you must remove it, DO NOT touch the body of the mask, touch only the strings.

ON WEARING HAND GLOVES
In the prevention of this COVID 19, wearing of hand GLOVES is a disaster happening everywhere including on you who is wearing it. My teenage cousin was telling me she feels wearing hand gloves is safe because she saw some of our law makers wearing it on television during their plenaries, well I don't know what their doctors and medical advisers are doing about that.
Wearing hand gloves is dangerous even to you who is wearing them. With your hand gloove you can pick up all the bugs and deposit them on your phones, your hand bag, your pockets, your car keys, pen and many other stuff that you don't care to sanitise before touching them with your bare hands after you remove the gloves. Another example is wearing gloves to the market or grocery stores, you touch from one product to the other, transferring bugs to the food packs and foods without packs and you still use same infected gloves to touch your pocket/bag and the money you take out to pay or the change you return to your pocket, I mean!!! Wearing and removing hand GLOVES in disease prevention have techniques medically, else you will end up contaminating what you are protecting.
Please keep all the gloves away, WASH YOUR HANDS regularly and in the absence of water and soap, use your HAND SANITIZER.

As a diabetic or a diabetes care giver know that you (or your loved one living with diabetes) is highly at risk of complication when infected with the virus, so please stay as safe as possible.
May God continue to protect us by his mercies and grace.

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