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Travel / Achieved My Childhood Dreams Today : A Trip To Stamford Bridge by GoddyMendex(m): 12:11am On Aug 07, 2022
Right from Childhood, I have always wanted to Visit The Stamford Bridge Stadium. Today August 6th 2022, my Aspirations came to pass, had the honor of visiting with my wife �♥️. OMG I'm so happy.

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Crime / Re: All Passengers Robbed And Kidnapped By Gunmen In Rivers State. Photo by GoddyMendex(m): 8:10pm On Jan 28, 2019
Mr Agofure is a Suspect cry
Education / Re: Delta State University Abraka: Unending Delay In Release Of Nursing Results At D by GoddyMendex(m): 9:55pm On Oct 10, 2018
Please help forward to the appropriate authorities to come to our aid... Our future is at stake...
Education / Delta State University Abraka: Unending Delay In Release Of Nursing Results At D by GoddyMendex(m): 9:53pm On Oct 10, 2018
*DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY ABRAKA: UNENDING DELAY IN RELEASE OF NURSING RESULTS AT DELSU*

A method to bastardized and jeopardized the immediate future of Nigeria students *Read More at...��*
http://www.voiceairmedia.com/2018/10/delta-state-university-abraka-unending.html
Health / Re: Tramadol Is Not Vitamin C by GoddyMendex(m): 12:15am On Sep 23, 2017
Hmmm.. Nawa oo
Health / Re: Tramadol Is Not Vitamin C by GoddyMendex(m): 8:18pm On Sep 22, 2017
My brother... All join... Hmmm.. Come to Neuro Psychiatric Hospital in Benin city and see for yourself what Drugs and Substance Abuse have done to Youths... cryMy brother... All join... Hmmm.. Come to Neuro Psychiatric Hospital in Benin city and see for yourself what Drugs and Substance Abuse have done to Youths...
Health / Re: Tramadol Is Not Vitamin C by GoddyMendex(m): 8:08pm On Sep 22, 2017
Stay away from this Drug...
Health / Tramadol Is Not Vitamin C by GoddyMendex(m): 8:03pm On Sep 22, 2017
I am Igweh Godwin, a final year Nursing Student of Delta State University, Abraka. Am proudly a Nairalander and am so much concerned about my fellow Youths and the Society today..
That's why I took this time out to cry to my fellow Youths and the Leaders of tomorrow who have been endeared with Tramadol...
Our young boys and girls are killing themselves with Tramadol. They are taking this specially prepared pain relief drugs to get high and the addiction have soared recently. It is now the fastest selling drug trailing codeine in local chemists and pharmacies across the Nation.
I wonder what these addicts know about this medicine. The way they take it with alcohol is seriously unbelievable. These people need to be warned. Your head will be shaking before you clock 40. You will look frail and drained and ultimately die a slow death.
Stay off this drug. It is not Vitamin C... Please...
Health / Tramadol Is Not Vitamin C by GoddyMendex(m): 7:54pm On Sep 22, 2017
I am Igweh Godwin, a final year Nursing Student of Delta State University, Abraka. Am proudly a Nairalander and am so much concerned about my fellow Youths and the Society today..
That's why I took this time out to cry to my fellow Youths and the Leaders of tomorrow who have been endeared with Tramadol...
Our young boys and girls are killing themselves with Tramadol. They are taking this specially prepared pain relief drugs to get high and the addiction have soared recently. It is now the fastest selling drug trailing codeine in local chemists and pharmacies across the Nation.
I wonder what these addicts know about this medicine. The way they take it with alcohol is seriously unbelievable. These people need to be warned. Your head will be shaking before you clock 40. You will look frail and drained and ultimately die a slow death.
Stay off this drug. It is not Vitamin C... Please...
Crime / Re: Nurse Stabs Her Engineer Husband To Death In Lagos. by GoddyMendex(m): 8:02am On Aug 23, 2017
RE: Nurse Stabs Husband To Death

The means of communication has evolved over time reaching a wider population through television, newspaper, radio, and magazines. Through this evolution, the world was able to interact and collaborate easily with one another by sharing information, ideas, and opinions. The mass media has always played an important role in our society for those not wealthy enough to own a radio or TV set. The media affects how people think and act toward the nursing profession. When the only time you see the word "Nurse" in the news, most times its always accompanied by the rider "... steals baby, ... kills baby, ... does abortion" followed by the content stating that the action was by a quack or an auxilliary nurse. After the last outcry following the post by @punch newspaper and its journalist Samson Folarin, we had hoped that the print media would change from their seeminly obsene drive to compare both quacks and RN's as one and the same. But once again to the detriment of the professsion, Nurses across the country have woken up to the glaring headline on most of our national dailies screaming: 
 
Nurse stabs husband to death in Lagos - "The Nation Nigeria"
 
'Jealous' nurse allegedly stabs husband to death - By "The Daily Post"
 
Nurse Stabs Husband To Death In Lagos By "nairaland"
 
Nurse Stabs Husband To Death In Lagos, Why She Did This Will Make ... By online blog "NAIJALOADED", 
 
Nurse stabs husband to death in Lagos... By "SpectaScope Nigeria" just to name a few.

The unjust depiction of who a professional nurse is in the media does not show the public the real responsibilities of the Registered nurse. Time and time again, Nurses have taken to social media to take to task these dailies for their blatent misrepresentation of who and what nurses are. According to the Oxford Dictionary definition, An assistant nurse is one with a lower level of training than a (registered) nurse...
 
The word "Quack Nurse..." in any of these headlines would definately make a huge difference since the content states its the actions of an "Auxilliary"
 
Although nurses are well trained health care professionals, the media shows the public the opposite. In Nigeria, our physicians get all the credit for all the meaningful work nurses do (as can be seen by the Minister of Health who prefers to recognise Dr. Adedavour but never once acknowledged the actions of Nurse Justina Ejelonu and other first responders). Additionally, the depiction of nurses as being a gender-bound career has certainly been a discouragement for men entering the nursing profession. The roots of this persistent media failure goes back to the start of the modern profession. Traditionally, the media has presented women nurses as angelic, relatively low-skilled, nurturing and highly submissive to the physicians who are usually men. But with the social changes of recent decades, the representation of nurses shifted to self-centered, uncaring, unprofessional, and unintelligent.
 
The public has misunderstandings of nurses' job duties when the mass media often does not show the actual responsibilities. Some people describe nurses as the eyes and ears of physicians. Indeed, it is a compliment but it is unfavorable because in the media, nurses are shown to be the ultimate helpers. However, nurses are critical and analytical thinkers who "gives direct care to the sick and vulnerable patients" and solve problems when their patient is at risk of health issues and they deserve the credit. In addition, they hold at a minimum a collegial degree focused in nursing. In reality, nurses assess, diagnose, medicate, evaluate and so much more while the doctors is at the patient's bedside for only short amount of time. 
 
The media’s negative view of the profession acts as a powerful force to shape the public’s attitudes towards nursing because it is rare to find a nurse portrayed in the popular media demonstrating clinical skill, diligence, or compassion. According to Gordon stated that "public attitudes particularly as they are reflected in the media depiction of health care-which, in turn, reinforce nursing's invisibility and make an unattractive career". Nurses are not seen delivering care as autonomous and knowledgeable professionals, monitoring the condition of the patient, and teaming up with physicians to keep patients healthy and safe. Instead, they are often portrayed as physician helpers, not the highly skilled independent clinicians that we know they are. 
 
These stereotypes demean the profession and hard work the nurses.
 
The undermining representations by the mass media affects the nursing profession negatively, especially with their duties as a health care professional. Often, portrayed as the submissive  helpers of doctors, nurses have specific responsibilities such as diagnosing, evaluating, providing medication and teaching while it is shown otherwise by the popular television dramas. These negative images and stereotypes must come to an end to help the public understand the real work of nurses. 
 
Hopefully, that the day will come when readers and audiences are exposed to portrayals of the actual c[truncated by WhatsApp]

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Nairaland / General / RE: Nurse Stabs Her Husband To Death by GoddyMendex(m): 7:58am On Aug 23, 2017
RE: Nurse Stabs Husband To Death
Date Posted: 23/Aug/2017
The means of communication has evolved over time reaching a wider population through television, newspaper, radio, and magazines. Through this evolution, the world was able to interact and collaborate easily with one another by sharing information, ideas, and opinions. The mass media has always played an important role in our society for those not wealthy enough to own a radio or TV set. The media affects how people think and act toward the nursing profession. When the only time you see the word "Nurse" in the news, most times its always accompanied by the rider "... steals baby, ... kills baby, ... does abortion" followed by the content stating that the action was by a quack or an auxilliary nurse. After the last outcry following the post by @punch newspaper and its journalist Samson Folarin, we had hoped that the print media would change from their seeminly obsene drive to compare both quacks and RN's as one and the same. But once again to the detriment of the professsion, Nurses across the country have woken up to the glaring headline on most of our national dailies screaming: 
 
Nurse stabs husband to death in Lagos - "The Nation Nigeria"
 
'Jealous' nurse allegedly stabs husband to death - By "The Daily Post"
 
Nurse Stabs Husband To Death In Lagos By "nairaland"
 
Nurse Stabs Husband To Death In Lagos, Why She Did This Will Make ... By online blog "NAIJALOADED", 
 
Nurse stabs husband to death in Lagos... By "SpectaScope Nigeria" just to name a few.

The unjust depiction of who a professional nurse is in the media does not show the public the real responsibilities of the Registered nurse. Time and time again, Nurses have taken to social media to take to task these dailies for their blatent misrepresentation of who and what nurses are. According to the Oxford Dictionary definition, An assistant nurse is one with a lower level of training than a (registered) nurse...
 
The word "Quack Nurse..." in any of these headlines would definately make a huge difference since the content states its the actions of an "Auxilliary"
 
Although nurses are well trained health care professionals, the media shows the public the opposite. In Nigeria, our physicians get all the credit for all the meaningful work nurses do (as can be seen by the Minister of Health who prefers to recognise Dr. Adedavour but never once acknowledged the actions of Nurse Justina Ejelonu and other first responders). Additionally, the depiction of nurses as being a gender-bound career has certainly been a discouragement for men entering the nursing profession. The roots of this persistent media failure goes back to the start of the modern profession. Traditionally, the media has presented women nurses as angelic, relatively low-skilled, nurturing and highly submissive to the physicians who are usually men. But with the social changes of recent decades, the representation of nurses shifted to self-centered, uncaring, unprofessional, and unintelligent.
 
The public has misunderstandings of nurses' job duties when the mass media often does not show the actual responsibilities. Some people describe nurses as the eyes and ears of physicians. Indeed, it is a compliment but it is unfavorable because in the media, nurses are shown to be the ultimate helpers. However, nurses are critical and analytical thinkers who "gives direct care to the sick and vulnerable patients" and solve problems when their patient is at risk of health issues and they deserve the credit. In addition, they hold at a minimum a collegial degree focused in nursing. In reality, nurses assess, diagnose, medicate, evaluate and so much more while the doctors is at the patient's bedside for only short amount of time. 
 
The media’s negative view of the profession acts as a powerful force to shape the public’s attitudes towards nursing because it is rare to find a nurse portrayed in the popular media demonstrating clinical skill, diligence, or compassion. According to Gordon stated that "public attitudes particularly as they are reflected in the media depiction of health care-which, in turn, reinforce nursing's invisibility and make an unattractive career". Nurses are not seen delivering care as autonomous and knowledgeable professionals, monitoring the condition of the patient, and teaming up with physicians to keep patients healthy and safe. Instead, they are often portrayed as physician helpers, not the highly skilled independent clinicians that we know they are. 
 
These stereotypes demean the profession and hard work the nurses.
 
The undermining representations by the mass media affects the nursing profession negatively, especially with their duties as a health care professional. Often, portrayed as the submissive  helpers of doctors, nurses have specific responsibilities such as diagnosing, evaluating, providing medication and teaching while it is shown otherwise by the popular television dramas. These negative images and stereotypes must come to an end to help the public understand the real work of nurses. 
 
Hopefully, that the day will come when readers and audiences are exposed to portrayals of the actual c[truncated by WhatsApp]
Family / Should Cooking Be Considered A Test For "Marriageability" For Women? by GoddyMendex(m): 12:32pm On Oct 15, 2016
Should Cooking be considered a test for "marriageability" for women?... " If we say cooking is not important for our girls, then why should "winning the bread" be used as a yardstick for manhood? The way to a man's heart is through his belly... My opinion... Share yours..
Education / Re: How I Flagged Off My Departmental Week Today... Nursing Or Nothing by GoddyMendex(m): 11:44pm On Jun 22, 2016
Fee Health care services...

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Education / Re: How I Flagged Off My Departmental Week Today... Nursing Or Nothing by GoddyMendex(m): 11:38pm On Jun 22, 2016
Nurses are Caring...

Education / Re: How I Flagged Off My Departmental Week Today... Nursing Or Nothing by GoddyMendex(m): 11:11pm On Jun 22, 2016
Nurse's are Great.....!

Education / How I Flagged Off My Departmental Week Today... Nursing Or Nothing by GoddyMendex(m): 11:06pm On Jun 22, 2016
Department of Nursing... Delta State University Abraka.. NUNSA WEEK 2016

Education / Re: How DELSU Students Who Matriculated Were Treated Today (Pics) by GoddyMendex(m): 10:03pm On Jan 16, 2016
@Ivie Road.... Abraka

Education / Re: How DELSU Students Who Matriculated Were Treated Today (Pics) by GoddyMendex(m): 7:44pm On Jan 16, 2016
Hmmm

Education / Re: How DELSU Students Who Matriculated Were Treated Today (Pics) by GoddyMendex(m): 7:42pm On Jan 16, 2016
And this...

Education / Re: How DELSU Students Who Matriculated Were Treated Today (Pics) by GoddyMendex(m): 7:41pm On Jan 16, 2016
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Education / Re: How DELSU Students Who Matriculated Were Treated Today (Pics) by GoddyMendex(m): 7:40pm On Jan 16, 2016
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Education / Re: How DELSU Students Who Matriculated Were Treated Today (Pics) by GoddyMendex(m): 7:11pm On Jan 16, 2016
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Education / How DELSU Students Who Matriculated Were Treated Today (Pics) by GoddyMendex(m): 7:06pm On Jan 16, 2016
Photo: How DELSU Matriculants Were Treated This Morning .. Isn't It Barbaric ?

Matriculations doesn't worth this..... And I don't think it happens in other Uni...

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Health / Re: My Bitter Experience As A Doctor Today by GoddyMendex(m): 6:43am On Dec 27, 2015
Am a Nurse.... I don't wait for my Matron before I start saving lives.. . So why on earth should you wait for your M. O? You nr try at all.... You should have done something..... You know what am talking about...

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