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Every profession has its guiding tools for the professional members with the ethics as the shepherd to guide and ensure fairness and a level playing ground in the profession. Hence Nurses Round looks into the professional influence to the personality adaption in the Nursing practice. Coming into nursing for some persons may be a stroll to the stream whereas for others with personality difficulties may be a hard labour. In recent years we have seen many of the nursing associations develop guidelines, principles and ethics with the International Council of Nurses (ICN) Ethical codes superseding all. However, all of these tends to point towards same direction as they all seek one objective “To ensure good nursing practice” in summary. These codes can be deduced to be a way to keep every nurse focused to his/her duty and ensure appropriate conduct irrespective of the person’s natural personality trait. Nursing as a society of care givers is made up different calibers of i...

Trends of Documentation in Nursing Practice and Technological Advancements Nursing as well as other healthcare groups has evolved from the early day practice to the modern way of practice and documentation in nursing is one area where there has been evidence in drastic changes. In the early 70’s till 80’s nursing practice documentation, though has been an area of emphasis and a seriously monitored part of nursing practice was all paper and pen documentation questioning the future of data storage and protection in the profession. Lose of patient’s data, alteration and cancellations leads to the quest for new modern and trends of documentation of nursing activities in the wards, clinics, nursing events, the administrative settings and most importantly the patients care data. Evolution has occurred in not only the way data are being collected and documented, but also the manner of storage. With the discovering of Tele-nursing and electronic data storage system though seldom us...

 Nurses Round takes you on the Curative and or the healing nature of Nursing care. Most arguable subject in the nursing profession. "Curative care is a treatment and therapies provided to a patient with and intent to improve symptoms and cure the patients medical problem e.g Antibiotics, chemotherapy , a cast for broken limb"-Trisha Torrey April 22 2014. Recently i have interview most of the medical and or health care practitioners and questions if Nursing care is Curative, Well the answers i got even from the nurses themselves seems to be no different as I was always greeted with the NO answer! It always starts when a quest is asked if nursing is curative or management care. Often times this kind of question remains unanswered even from the nursing families, hence the need to have an in-dept look into the curative nature of Nursing care. Nurses Round wishes to provoke the opinions of the readers that nursing is the most curative aspect of care received by patients i...

Job Vacancies for Nurses OPENING 1 Recruitment Agency : Eldorado Medic Jobs Clien t: State of the Art Specialist Center. Their services include but are not limited to acute and emergency care of cardiac and renal emergencies. To ensure the delivery of the level of care desired at the facility they are recruiting specialist nurses. Candidates:  Nurses Job Summary: Ideal candidate is expected to provide quality care in a specialist centre handling critically ill patients. Duties and Responsibilities: Follow established guidelines for the nursing care of assigned patients Be able to recognize deterioration in hemodynamic status Perform ACLS (Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support) Ability to interpret ECG (Electrocardiogram) Qualifications and Experience: • Candidate must possess a nursing degree with at least 3 years of experience • Candidate must possess current practicing license. • Post basic nursing training in any of the following; Acute and emergency...

ROLE OF NURSING ENVIRONMENT IN PATIENT’S RECOVERY Having searched and compared many health care system reports on environmental role in patients recovering NursesRound has identified the importance of good nursing environment to patients recovery. Nursing environment can be seen as the pattern adopted through the time of patient’s care or the way and approach of Nurses towards a particular patients handling during care in a particular environment/setting. Nursing environment integral part in patient’s recovering through one may argue if they are conscious of that especially in the developing and the under developing world. Having our observatory studies, we found out that most patients in the developing countries who are admitted end up with complications such as nosocomial infection, bed sore, emotional imbalances. Nurses environment are comprised of sections such as nurse approach to a patient in times of care, nurse patient interaction strategy, (nurse-patient relatio...

When a Nurse is Made   "When a Nurse is made, new personalities are borne" Contribute to keep reminding us of what a great group we are to the society and health care sectors world wide, keep the motivation on. Add your thought ........ from the comment box and keep it going  

Dear NursesRound readers, previously we wrote an article on the Cost of Nursing services in Nigeria/Africa Part 1 , following so may reactions from many quarters of the world,  we have deduced that “the cost of nursing services is not only a problem for African Nursing, but Rather is it s global issue” see below some reactions from across the world and what they have contributed (UK,USA,UGANDA, KENYA,NIGERIA,JORDAN ETC). Some said we should have a more detailed way of costing our services while some suggests it is something that will remain with nursing as a profession for a long time, while most believed it should be reviewed internationally, some also believed it will be a hard task owing the nature of nursing work , some referred to it as a passionate discussion that requires organization to yield a very tangible out come . However we saw some positive especially in Africa and America as some of the Hospitals are already designing models on how their nursing services will be a...

                                      World War 1 Commemoration-Nurses Commitments The world World War 1 Commemoration was the recent ceremony which brought the whole world together to reflect on the lessons learned from the war which saw millions of lives wasted in brutal fashion. We are not going into the full details of the War, but Nurses Round is taking the world of nursing into the efforts, commitments and dedications showed by our fore-Nurses during this War. Nurses fought without Guns, daggers or swords, but they were yet in the battle field and they gallantly defended their profession more within their only arsenal which is "CARE" As always the case , Nurses duties and works may not be recognized or remembered, neighter has it won a noble award... but we are well aware that these nurse...

                           Nurses Tools Against Ebola Virus-Universal Precaution Measures(UP) In recent weeks , the world of health care especially in Africa has been in chaos and has been take by surprise by the deadly virus called Ebola and Nurses Round take a look at the use of Universal  Precaution Measures as tool for nurses to prevent the imminent occupational Hazard and much casualties from the Ebola War zone.  Ebola according to  Wikipedia is: Ebola virus disease ( EVD ) or Ebola hemorrhagic fever ( EHF ) is the human disease caused by the Ebola virus. Symptoms typically start two days to three weeks after contracting the virus, with a fever, throat and muscle pains, and headaches. There is then typically nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, along with decreased functioning of the liver and kidneys. At this point, some people begin...