horlus:
I appreciate your write up but in some cases it's also negligence and carelessness from doctors. I lost my son few weeks ago after being born 4days later to jaundice. Despite the fact my wife kept alerting them that she has an history with jaundice from the theater where she had a casseran procedure. It's a story I don't want to start writing about right now but the child should not be dead if not for carelessness from the hospital doctors. Everyone keeps telling me to sue the hospital I v just decided to let go.

jaydee87:


we all have our path to play too... I pity every sector f our economy... and please let's stop the zoogeria of a thing...

olrotimi:
Let me weigh into the discussion.
Firstly, Op you have spoken well and have spoken our mind. The state of health care in Nigeria is appalling to say the least. Lemme give my experience :
During my service year, I was the only doctor covering a general hospital in Ebonyi state and also the only health professional who 'sleeps -in'. After over working myself with the out patients, probably had one or two surgeries, I'd then be faced with call duty which is another story entirely. I play the role of doctor, nurse, pharmacist and oftentimes, health records. Oftentimes I get woken up at midnight by a woman in labour. With no nurse or midwife to assist me, I have to do what I have to do, as if I turn them away, they would end up with untrained traditional birth attendants. I have conducted countless deliveries including daring ones (twin gestations, breech, and placenta previa) sometimes with just one forceps and one scissors and just a head lamp. Ethically, this is wrong, but does my patient understand ethics, These I did 24/7 for a year and I was paid for just two months.
Bottom line is this : No one appreciates the circumstances we have to work under, ofcus we don't need your sympathy, but be guided by your glib talk and vituperations (like the poster above) cos many of you have inherent disdain for health professionals and nothing we say here would change it.

IamforGod:


You are contradicting yourself ma'am

I'd rather be sacked than have someone die intentionally on my watch!


When I opened this thread I thot I was going to seen excuses that wud make my head calm. And I came here disappointed!


I repeat I pray u dnt find urself in emergency situations that ordinary card will prevent them from attending to you!

I just confirmed the fact that nigerian nurses are pure evil!



If that is the case, then you cannot work as a nurse in nigeria, you will keep getting sacked from one place after another, till you realise how powerless you are


Imagine, I was expecting to hear we didn't av the drip or wateva so we had to go and buy and befor we came he died! But no I read it clearly that they had to buy the insulin themselves in a pharmacy and yet u didn't attend to him becos of a stupid card!

JUST PURE EVIL!

IamforGod:



Lol! You are just like a soldier saying I dnt want to go to war, I dnt want to die!

Like I told the op U SIGNED UP FOR IT b

I av never heard of people dying becos they helped someone live!

Kimoni:
While I agree there are not enough equipment and even manpower in our hospitals, the lacadestical attitude of out nurses might be doing much more harm to the patients. We have cases of women giving birth on the roads but because other women with experience would rally round her and offer basic support and assistance, the lives of both mother and baby would be spared.

When you are in pains, there are physical and psychological pains involved. The psychological pains if not managed, can kill faster than the physical pains. What nurses do with their callous and nonchalant attitude is to drain you emotionally, increase the physchological pains you are feeling, thereby making you lose the will and desire to fight for life. And death is only too happy to offer respite to such a person

Nurses, as a first step need to really ask themselves why they are in that line of work at all. If it's for the money, they should just exit the profession cuz that profession ain't about money making. It's a vocation of sacrifice and only those who have in them can do it. It's a calling and it's not for everyone.

However, government also need to provide the enabling atmosphere for nurses to work as there is little that can be done without the right equipment and incentives. Thereafter, anyone found wanting or culpable in his or her line of duty should be not be spared and when live(s) is involved, whoever is found deficient should be treated as what he or she really is - murderer! No sugar coating of what it is and the full weight of the law should apply. #nigerianlivesmatter

Bgorgeous:
what kind of story is this? what happened to save the life of the patient first in an emergency before asking for money. nurses l swear are the devils infante in every hospital . no good nurse trained to save life grows thick skin in the face of death. nonsense foscality

donodion:


You are unjustifiably harsh at the OPs true state of happenings and your last paragraph is completely uncalled for.Its like saying since soldiers have signed up for the call,regardless they are ill-equiped they should proceed to boko harm base and confront them.Childish reasoning !!!.

What Do you expect a nurse on duty to do with a new patient while he was busy with another patient in labor? It's called priority.Besides the fact there were only two nurses on duty...in a general hospital where there should be at least 4 per ward...inclusive of intern. And only one doctor on duty... Who might also be an intern.

In health related issues..you just don't " use anything " to handle procedures. Healthcare workers using kerosene lantern while suturing or handling an invasive procedure itself is a health risk.No matter how skilled you are.chances of infection and cross Infection is high. Besides you could land yourself with a medico legal hazard Instances.

The Nigerian health sector needs complete overhauling

@ Op thank you for the post and the poster of that article of the last meeting held by UNGOSA.

dicefrost:


I appreciate ur contribution. Pls analyse the scenario and suggest what you think i should have done

bnovative:

No matter the sophistry employed in running the PR, the experience of most nigerian stands as a sore reality that the nursing profession, as practise in public hospital is anything but efficient.
U didn't talk about the rivalry bw u and the doctors.
A lot of Patience died as a result of non chalant attitude of the nigerian nurse, than lack of equipment and govt. policy.
With due respect to the few good nurses,and the nurse with b.sc nursing; most nurses from the school of nursing lack apt knowledge of the profession.
i once registered at a general hospital and was asked to take my file to the out patience, where i would be attended to. On getting there, i asked the nurse in charge, the right place to place my file, since there were three heaps of file on the table. And the nurse looked me straight in the eye and said " place it on my head, idiot".
It took the sympathy of other patience to show me the right place to drop my file.
I know u can explain this by saying may be he was tired, having had to attend to countless people.
My advice to nigerians: pls always go to teaching hospital where the attitude of these health workers is checked.

LadyFiona:
How do you differentiate a university graduands and school of nursing graduands? Please , your ignorant stereotyping of graduates of schools of nursing is wrong. The level of educational achievements achieved by an individual does not reflect or connote an increase in/ acquisition of good interpersonal communication skills. These skills are often in case of nursing learned by every nurse before graduation irrespective of where you graduates from. It is an important rational before being liscenced as a professional nurse.
So I beg to disagree on that.

And, I am not holding briefs for my erring colleagues.

donodion:
LadyFiona, mentorandfriend, Deray98, dicefrost, ameenahz...if you guys wont mind, I'd like to add as followers on this section of the forum.Please indicate if Ok with you.

nkemdi89:

Honestly like a particular case the wife died because the man couldn't raise money for cs, the wife was kept until he could raise the money and signed the form for the operation. The wife later died even he couldn't raise the money for the wife's corpse to be released, my boss have to give him money and called the hospital to release the body.

LadyFiona:
How do you differentiate a university graduands and school of nursing graduands? Please , your ignorant stereotyping of graduates of schools of nursing is wrong. The level of educational achievements achieved by an individual does not reflect or connote an increase in/ acquisition of good interpersonal communication skills. These skills are often in case of nursing learned by every nurse before graduation irrespective of where you graduates from. It is an important rational before being liscenced as a professional nurse.
So I beg to disagree on that.

And, I am not holding briefs for my erring colleagues.

bnovative:

I have made my point clear and i have no intention to argue with u. The point is: it's the attitude of the nurses that contribute most in crumbling the sector than lack of equipment/govt policy.
u can try to explain why a cruel and incompetent nurse should be excused for his inefficiency, but the public know some of them are merchants of death.
To put it mildly, the public see the nurse in the public hospital as the nigerian police.

bnovative:

I have made my point clear and i have no intention to argue with u. The point is: it's the attitude of the nurses that contribute most in crumbling the sector than lack of equipment/govt policy.
u can try to explain why a cruel and incompetent nurse should be excused for his inefficiency, but the public know some of them are merchants of death.
To put it mildly, the public see the nurse in the public hospital as the nigerian police.

Sanmel:
I'm a nurse too o.. JIC u av something special for Nairaland nurses..

dicefrost:


Yes sir

ameenahz:


Please go ahead.

mentorandfriend:
[color=#77007]Its OK by me.[/color]

zed7:
If you guys have no doctors or inadequate personnel then please close the hospital.
It's not an excuse you are giving. The duty of every medical personnel is to save life. Imagine how silly you are to say what you have said and called it a defence.
Haven't you met doctors who try to save accident victims even when they do not have their kits with them? They use whatever is available and make an attempt. No matter the situation, the medical personnel should make an attempt to help, reassure the patient and kindly refer them somewhere else.
This is not usually the case as our Nigerian nurses and doctors are arrogant and treat you like thrash.
Like the Nigerian society, you are only treated with respect if you have money.
Mr/Madam nurse, you excuse or defense is lame. The family of the man should have lynched you also. You people's attitude and not lack of facilities caused the man's death.

olrotimi:
Let me weigh into the discussion.
Firstly, Op you have spoken well and have spoken our mind. The state of health care in Nigeria is appalling to say the least. Lemme give my experience :
During my service year, I was the only doctor covering a general hospital in Ebonyi state and also the only health professional who 'sleeps -in'. After over working myself with the out patients, probably had one or two surgeries, I'd then be faced with call duty which is another story entirely. I play the role of doctor, nurse, pharmacist and oftentimes, health records. Oftentimes I get woken up at midnight by a woman in labour. With no nurse or midwife to assist me, I have to do what I have to do, as if I turn them away, they would end up with untrained traditional birth attendants. I have conducted countless deliveries including daring ones (twin gestations, breech, and placenta previa) sometimes with just one forceps and one scissors and just a head lamp. Ethically, this is wrong, but does my patient understand ethics, These I did 24/7 for a year and I was paid for just two months.
Bottom line is this : No one appreciates the circumstances we have to work under, ofcus we don't need your sympathy, but be guided by your glib talk and vituperations (like the poster above) cos many of you have inherent disdain for health professionals and nothing we say here would change it.

bnovative:

I have made my point clear and i have no intention to argue with u. The point is: it's the attitude of the nurses that contribute most in crumbling the sector than lack of equipment/govt policy.
u can try to explain why a cruel and incompetent nurse should be excused for his inefficiency, but the public know some of them are merchants of death.
To put it mildly, the public see the nurse in the public hospital as the nigerian police.