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EDD is not absolute...sure your doctor must have told you that the baby may come 2weeks earlier or later than d EDD...i m sure she ll fall into labour soon..but if by the 18th (making 41 weeks) she hasn't fall into labour let her go to the hospital where she booked or if her next antenatal visit is before then..she may be admitted from d clinic for cervical ripening and induction of labour...relax mr! wish u guys safe delivery.

I know what you are going through sir...it is expected that when urine test is positive and also blood test..d beta-HCG level should have risen to a considerable level such that in d worst case scenario the fetal heart beat ll be picked via USS.
I will say u should keep praying and go for the next scan as scheduled.I dont want to scare u but we may be dealing with an ectopic here.

i guess u are a female....and females dont need viagra! just walk into any pharmacy shop and ask for it...the generic name is sildenafil....another brand is tadalafil...but be sure that your man who is going to take it is not a known hypertensive on nitroglycerin or other vasodilating agents.

cant u state ur price here? looks like u are not ready to sell

Great job chaircover! this thread is long overdue....that was how one dubious individual claimed to have cure for hypertension and diabetes.They keep decieving unsuspecting and vulnerable patients...waste thier money..worsen thier conditions and leave them with life threathning complications. kudos!

please stop decieving people with your lies...it is people like you that promises unsespecting patients cure only to push them to the hospital later for doctors and nurses to start managing the complications.

If i ll be honest with you....home remedy for crises will not last long...take her to a good hospital wherw she ll be properly hydrated..given adequate analgesia and treated for whatever infections and infestations that may have precipitated this current episode. To prevent this in d future...always encourage her to take water frequently and take her dly antimalarial medications regularly....it ll also do her a lot of good of she avoids carbonated drinks because of acidosis which ll worsen her condition. just my 2cents

Its a first trimester abortion whose mainstay of management is medical....which has to be early anyway..this can be done by anyone who knows d correct dosages and combinations...but as for surgical abortions...most nurses that have tried it end up sending dying victims to the doctors. go check!

depends on the age..but some of the above symptoms points to dementia...

Gracious10: Hmmmmm, I have followed this thread and read every single post with relish.

Truth is that no health profession functions without the other, courtesy demands that you treat other health team colleagues with respect.
Nigeria is a Jungle where professionals go about trying to eat each other alive.

Those asking nurses to become doctors, if everyone became a doctor,how can we then function? I love what I do and I don't stop learning. If one piece of information could increase my level of knowledge and help me function better in my field, I go all the way to get it whether you are a doctor, nurse, pharmacist, nutritionist. What matters is that you have gained experience in your area of profession. The continuous bickering is very unnecessary as I have seen doctors who can't even insert an IV neither can they make diagnosis or even know what to assess. I have met ones who are very intelligent and enjoy what they do. There are bad and good ones.

If our professional bodies are doing bad, let's be the change we want to see. No matter how a patient/client offends you, patience is a strong virtue of a nurse. You can never do without that. What bothers me most is the work load of a Nigerian Nurse, it enormous and could affect proper care for clients.

What I was really expecting are those issues that affect care in a nursing setting. The technical, ethical, educational and economic issues affecting the field. How do we handle them and where do we go from here? Change can't come in one day but we can start somewhere. Enough of the bickering. We have some real issues, let's deal with them.

You have spoken well....if every health care professional thinks and acts like you...i m sure this thread wouldnt have been opened in the first place....i must say that i m impressed....kudos!

Gracious10: Hmmmmm, I have followed this thread and read every single post with relish.

Truth is that no health profession functions without the other, courtesy demands that you treat other health team colleagues with respect.
Nigeria is a Jungle where professionals go about trying to eat each other alive.

Those asking nurses to become doctors, if everyone became a doctor,how can we then function? I love what I do and I don't stop learning. If one piece of information could increase my level of knowledge and help me function better in my field, I go all the way to get it whether you are a doctor, nurse, pharmacist, nutritionist. What matters is that you have gained experience in your area of profession. The continuous bickering is very unnecessary as I have seen doctors who can't even insert an IV neither can they make diagnosis or even know what to assess. I have met ones who are very intelligent and enjoy what they do. There are bad and good ones.

If our professional bodies are doing bad, let's be the change we want to see. No matter how a patient/client offends you, patience is a strong virtue of a nurse. You can never do without that. What bothers me most is the work load of a Nigerian Nurse, it enormous and could affect proper care for clients.

What I was really expecting are those issues that affect care in a nursing setting. The technical, ethical, educational and economic issues affecting the field. How do we handle them and where do we go from here? Change can't come in one day but we can start somewhere. Enough of the bickering. We have some real issues, let's deal with them.

You have spoken well....if every health care professional thinks and acts like you...i m sure this thread wouldnt have been opened in the first place....i must say that i m impressed....kudos!

may be i m wrong afterall..but the term arrogance appears ambigous to me as it is being used in this context...i want someone to explain to me exactly how doctors are arrogant with examples...m waiting pls...prettychina and co

I believe the issue here is more about the widespread misconception that doctors are arrogant and want to boss other health care workers aound....i ll say our colleagues should deal with whatever complex issues they might have acquired or inherited.
come to think of it...if the doctor says 'give iv ceftriaxone xg 12hrly' and you do that( which is your duty anyway) do u see it as he/she sending you on errand or you doing your job?
if i order for blood chemistry...does the lab scientist see it as the doctor sending him on errand or he sees it as doing d job he is being paid to do?
Again what i noticed with some senior matrons is that they bring sentiments of tribe, age and culture into the work place neglecting the professionality with which medicine should be practiced...if i need a speculum and i ask the matron, does she see it as 'how can this small boy b sending me on errand'( which she ought to provide) or she sees it ad merely doing her job?
We can now see where the strife and animosity crept in...though some doctors may be arrogant and rude...itz more of a personality issue, they ll still be if they a hospital cleaners....sooooooo pls stop associating it with d medical profession and go deal with your complexes.

Mohammed Alawi: Doctors are so selfish, self centred and scared of other hospital team players like pharmacists, Radiographers, Scientist, Nurses and the rest. For instance, if there's no radiographer how will you know the mass to be operated, its size, extent and location. Its as well the same person that gives you confirmation whether what you removed is completely removed.

It appears u dont even know what d job of a radiographer entails...they take exposures and prepare the films...the interpretation and other clinical stuffs is done by d radiologist(a doctor)..what about barium swallow? HSG? and USS? do u do that too.....and did i hear u say that radiographs shows masses? it may, albeit very poorly...USS does it better and this is not done by radiographers and has for confirmation of complete resection of tumours...that is d work of pathologists(who are also doctors).

lord kpakpando: Based on gathered information from the horse's mouth " A DUNCE CAN BE A MEDICAL DOCTOR AS LONG AS SHE IS A FEMALE AND OFFERS HER BODY OR HAS MONEY TO SORT THROUGH OUT MEDICAL SCHOOL BUT A DUNCE CANNOT BE A PROFESSIONAL NURSE because ONE OF THEIR EXAM BEFORE GRAUATION IS BEING MARKED BY THEIR PROFESSIONAL BODY OUTSIDE THEIR SCHOOL UNLIKE DOCTORS WHO THEIR SO CALLED M.B.B.S IS BEING MARKED BY THEIR SCHOOL". Some people dont know dat its easier to graduate as a medical doctor than to graduate as a university nurse.

How can you openly display such a high level of intractable ignorance....where does the external examiner(s) come in at d different levels of exam being written in med skul...SMH

pardon me...comparison

obviously! no basis for conparison...doctors do the brain work...nurses carry out the plan..and a few gud nurses does that well

thank u prettychyna...u said we admit but nurses care...can you pls tell me the basis of your care....in short what you call care is basically carrying out the plan written out by the doctor who saw the patient and most of you dont even know why you are doing what u are doing,u can imagine a supposedly experienced nurse telling me that she noticed that a patient being managed for COPD often becomes uncomfortable when the oxygen dose is btween 1-2L and that we should increase it the highest,of course basic medical knowlegde is lacking here...and did i hear u say we cant make diagnosis without tests? ...any doctor that received proper training knows that 90% of diagnosis and differentials are made at history taking..u only need d lab to confirm your diagnosis in a few cases and to monitor progress....and i laughed when you said no nurses no admission...ahahahaha...u an d i know that itz all about protocol...or what do u do other than taking vital signs...administering drugs at intervals...and keeping fluid chat(which most of u fabricate anyway) and doing what you know how to do best, writing nursing process

[A major grouse of our coalition is the
continued exclusive role of medical practitioners
as the chief executive of hospitals. We have
argued in line with international best practices
that the skills required for that administrative
office are quite distinct from the clinical skills of
a medical doctor. “

Looking at the above qoute...on is left to wonder in whose interest really is the so called JOHESU fighting? if u said doctors are not trained to head administrative positions...were the lab scientists,pharmacists, nurses, phsical therapists equallu trained? Yet , they are also clamouring to be CMDs...on what grounds? obviously not on the grounds of better admibistrative skills....doctors i ll say are the centre point in the hospital(that is not to say other professionals are not important).
1. we determine who to admit and who to manage on outpatient basis...no admission no work for the nurses on the ward
2. we prescribe drugs...if we don't then the dugs dispensed by the pharmacists ll be useless...we equally determine the kind of drugs that are stocked regularly based on yhe rate of prescription
3. we request for lan investigations..if we dont the laboratory scientist and technicians ll be rendered jobless
4. we also send consults to the physiotherapist or refer patients to them ..if we dont pls tell me what they ll be doing
From the above.. u can see that doctors stand at d centre of healthcare...more so, well trained doctor should be able to do the above to a reasonable extent...afterall when nurses were on strike i was dressing patients wound and doing whatever nurses said they do during their shift...we also ran basic samples like PCV and B1based on the available equipments(we could have done more)...and we never missed the pharmacists except for fear of fake drugs bought outside the hospitals...now tell me who should head the health team?

@prettychyna, if u observe well u ll see that i never complained...i was only making a comparism which i expect u to refute if i am wrong...i love my job and i enjoy what i do.If i said anything wrong in my post(above) pls correct me...i'm earnestly waiting!

I carefully went through your write up...u may be right on some issues but i ll disagree with u on some
1. You said doctors are arrogant and believe they can order nurses around(paraphrased)...i believe this is an issue that has to do with complex...if you know your job as a nurse then you wont see it as merely carrying out the doctor's instruction(which you ought to) but as a team player in restoring health to the patient in question,afterall what you write in your nursing records are the things you observed during your shift and of course the management plan outlined by the doctor(s) for the patients for the nurses to execute.
2. You said the ward is a battle ground...i also disagree...it is whatever you make it. some doctors may be rude, but if there is no crack in the wall the lizard cant gain entry....i had an experience with a nurse who called me in d middle of the night that my attention was needed on d ward,when i asked her what d problem was..she said a patient complained of weakness and dizziness...behold when i got to d ward this patient had no records of her vital signs..not even temperature...by the time i checked her BP..i discoverd she was in shock so i commenced resuscitation...would have been wrong to be angry with that nurse who was busy writing nursing process and records while a patient was dying on her ward...and who didnt even join me in the process?
3.You equally said u work as much as doctors do......hmmmm, lets make this comparism...a nurse resumes for morning duty 7:30am and hands over to afternoon shift by 1pm.....afternoon shift runs till 7:30pm....while night runs till the following morning and if u are on night duty for 7days,then you get 7days off work
Now compare to a doctor who resumes 8am attends to patient till 4pm(depends.on the unit,may be later than 4) and then if he is on call will stay behind till the next morning only to change and resume normal duties and close by 4pm that is if he is not the one on call again.....and on weekend call duty he resumes 8am on friday and leaves the hospital 4pm on monday.....do still think nurses work as much as doctors? besides nurses cover a single ward during their 7hr shift...but a doctor covers several wards including the theatre during his/her call.

pls any issues witg this car? has the car been resprayed/baked? when was it purchased and how long has d owner been using it? why is d owner selling? pls answer these questions then we can discuss about the price.

can we do 780...m serious abt this

it appears he is going to use that ride in d end

mileage pls? and VIN too....can it go for 720k

VIN please? thanks

VIN please?

It appears the lady in question had imminent eclampsia which would have been picked if she has been having adequate antenatal care (or was picked; she could have been careless) the issue is that the principle of management entais a lot of money...from antiseizures...expensive intravenous antihypertensives to seizure prophylaxis by magnesium sulphate apart from delivering via the faster means which may b a ceasarean section or hysterotomy as d case may be. The question i m asking is if d management of this hospital have been attending to patients on credit....what emergency medications wld they have met on ground?

800k?

700k serious buyer

can it go for 650k

can i take this baby for 800