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PoliticsRe: Miyetti Allah Tells Saraki: Resign Or We’ll Force You Out by HillsBlaze(m): 11:46am On Aug 22, 2018
If human beings talk animals go come talk.... This madness will surely end next year, nonsense.
PoliticsRe: APC: Saraki Will Rather Rule In Hell Than Serve In Paradise by HillsBlaze(m): 4:12pm On Aug 20, 2018
Compared to the hell we are in right now? APC biko nu mechie one.
PoliticsRe: Saraki Is No Oba : 55 Senators Can Force The Doors Open, By Ugoji Egbujo by HillsBlaze(m): 2:14pm On Aug 17, 2018
More like a rambling of a mad man, a mad man should even be offended that he is compared with the writer of this stories that touch.
Was looking for where the constitution said or didn't say but just rambling upandan.
SportsRe: NFF: FIFA Rejects Dalung’s Ministerial Visit Offer by HillsBlaze(m): 2:09pm On Aug 17, 2018
This Giwa person should be put in prison. Why is it that he doesn't know that national interest supersedes personal interest.
PoliticsRe: Saraki Doesn't Have Moral Principle - Lai Mohammed Blasts Senate President by HillsBlaze(m): 8:25pm On Aug 16, 2018
And you have the moral and the principle to call him out? Abeg make we hear word.

Power to the people
PoliticsRe: How APC Is Giving Saraki ‘the Jonathan Treatment’ – Timi Frank by HillsBlaze(m): 12:27pm On Aug 16, 2018
buhariguy:
These buhari sef,
His mate will be stealing and sharing the money to the jobless aggressive lazy idiotic pigs of Biafra terrorist and those their terrorist social cultural leaders like ohaneze and afeniferi.

He will not share to his supporters because he love Nigeria more than his supporters

What kind of best president is this
For once just say something that is reasonable.
PoliticsRe: 2019: President Buhari Will Not Disappoint Nigerians - APC by HillsBlaze(m): 1:59pm On Aug 13, 2018
How is he going to disappoint us when he has done that already? Useless party.
PoliticsRe: Matthew B. Seiyefa Appointed As DSS Acting DG by HillsBlaze(m): 7:52pm On Aug 07, 2018
Finally, all the mad men in this country will be routed out.
PoliticsRe: Yakubu Nagoda Resigns As Special Assistant To Governor Ganduje by HillsBlaze(m): 12:03am On Aug 07, 2018
Grave yard matters? Na wa for Una Kano ppl
PoliticsRe: ‘You Are A Betrayal To Igbos’ – Kenneth Okonkwo Blasted Online by HillsBlaze(m): 11:41pm On Aug 03, 2018
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Lol cheesy, the haters have arrived already.
The next Governor of Enugu , nothing do you.
We are behind you gidigba!
God bless you the incoming Governor of Enugu state.
You may have some new bad belle enemies henceforth, but never mind, those of us that love you are more than children of hate.
Carry go namesake. 
Na u we want.
What a good , responsible man.
A role model of high caliber.

Haters, now, you can start summersaulting!
Who dash am?
PoliticsRe: Herdsmen/farmers Crisis: Report Indicts Ex-pdp Governors, Defectors by HillsBlaze(m): 5:52am On Jul 30, 2018
We all know this is a political report card. nonsense people leading us.
CrimeRe: Doctor And Nurse Arrested As Woman Dies Of Complications After Abortion. Photo by HillsBlaze(m): 5:50am On Jul 30, 2018
Looking at them you will know them be quacks. Quacks everywhere distorting the image of nursing.
PoliticsRe: Senate Adjourns Plenary Until September 25 by HillsBlaze(m): 12:07pm On Jul 24, 2018
AngryRebel:
Saraki na baba for game! Kai,see as him dribble the bigot n d yeye frog eye from eko!
Saraki 3 - 0 Buhari
Buhari should stop hiding, like a cat.
Na the frog eye I wanna comment on... So true
PoliticsRe: Saraki Now Presiding Over Tuesday Plenary. by HillsBlaze(m): 11:24am On Jul 24, 2018
To imagine that my body has been shaking uncontrollably since morning. Nigeria will be fine, we will overcome. As for Buhari, his end has come and the coward Osibanjo, history will not smile at you.
PoliticsRe: Ekiti Has Been Liberated From Pdp’s Bondage – Aregbesola by HillsBlaze(m): 6:20pm On Jul 19, 2018
Just like Osun state will be liberated from the APC by PDP and still win in the court of law and get back their seat in Ekiti.
PoliticsRe: Kenneth Okonkwo Unveils His Enugu Governorship Poster (Photos) by HillsBlaze(m): 6:17pm On Jul 19, 2018
Guy go respect yourself and manage the little money wey you get... We are happy and comfortable with our working governor. Enugu is in the hands of God.
PoliticsRe: FAAC Crisis: 14 Governors Can’t Pay Salaries by HillsBlaze(m): 10:35am On Jul 09, 2018
Enuguboy4nsk:
imagine in south east Enugu , Ebonyi and Anambra have paid June salaries while Abia and Imo (the so-called oil play producing states in SE still owes salary...if they was any state I expected to owe in SE that should have been Ebonyi BC of no much commercial activities and here Abia with a commercial hub like Aba still owes and even IMO state..

I think the northern Igbo states consisting of Enugu, Ebonyi and Anambra has this natural superiority in governance compared to the southern Igbo states..its a pity
Abia has been messed up since 2007 and as for Imo, since the coming of APC stuffs have been bleeped up.
PoliticsRe: FAAC Crisis: 14 Governors Can’t Pay Salaries by HillsBlaze(m): 10:30am On Jul 09, 2018
Kokolet11:
shocked chio five state from South West has not paid,no wonder these people hate any mention of biafra.
Apparently you can't read Abi?
It's the like of you that are spoiling this country, read you won't read, listen, you won't listen... Biko go and suffer ur surfer life and leave others.
PoliticsRe: Abaribe: What Suswam Told Me In DSS Custody by HillsBlaze(m): 6:26pm On Jul 04, 2018
Sarkin:
Terrorist suswam will not go unpunished.
I am saying this here and now that 60% of the issues we are facing in this country is plotted by PDP just to frustrate this government and garner support for ignorant Nigerians.
See, let me tell you something, I can never support evil. Buhari has been wrong on many issues but no one is prefer naaa.
As much as I hate OBJ, I rather support his third force that to support 'Satan's own party' PDP. Paid PDP supporters like salamrushdie,lzaa, zombiepunisher/zombiehunter here on the this forum have somewhat succeeded in deceiving gullible people but they can never deceive me.
One PDP mad man even admitted that they "used" to kill people.
And people here will still beat their chest for them.
Sad.
Just like APC plotted theirs? Abeg park well
TravelRe: Tanker Fire On Lagos Ibadan Expressway: Corpses Evacuated, Eyewitness Accounts by HillsBlaze(m): 6:52am On Jun 29, 2018
It's just now that I realized that this occurred like 30mins after I passed thru there.

God heal our land and save us from these calamities going on around us.
PoliticsRe: 2019: Jaaruma Is Donating N5,000,000 To Atiku & N5,000,000 To Dankwambo by HillsBlaze(m): 7:49pm On Jun 28, 2018
CilicMarin:
Wasted cash grin grin

They should have used the money to empower thousands Of ipob pigs here, at least it will reduce their anger and hatred towards their fellow men.
Receive sense IJN
PoliticsRe: Presidency Releases ‘checklist’ On Killings Under PDP by HillsBlaze(m): 7:48pm On Jun 28, 2018
And I thought Femi was a reasonable human until this govt.
Foreign AffairsRe: President Rodrigo Duterte Calls God 'Stupid' by HillsBlaze(m): 4:46pm On Jun 25, 2018
Whoever the gods want to destroy, they first make mad.
CrimeRe: Why Fulani Herdsmen killed Over 86 People In Plateau – Miyetti Allah by HillsBlaze(m): 11:46am On Jun 25, 2018
So in a normal world 300 cows = 86 humans and counting.
These people are stupid... How can you compare human life to that of an animal?
These killings can never be rationalized, and it's high time the federal government declares this group as a terrorist organization that they are.
HealthRe: A Course Not Found In The Curriculum:They Ruined Our Team by HillsBlaze(m): 5:12am On Jun 20, 2018
chuksanambra:
Know your place and function optimally there instead of envying and fighting other professionals.

These JOHESU clowns should keep deceiving themselves. When some JOHESU members were involved in an accident during the strike and were magnanimously treated by doctors, JOHESU said those involved in the accident weren't JOHESU members but hospital cleaners.

Even in Heaven, there's a difference between Angels and Archangels
Typical example of bad blood in the health sector.
SportsRe: Comparing The Penalty Played By Messi Vs The One Ronaldo Played by HillsBlaze(m): 7:02pm On Jun 16, 2018
MrsEvakinqz:
no matter what his the GOAT
Yes we agree, female goat
SportsRe: Comparing The Penalty Played By Messi Vs The One Ronaldo Played by HillsBlaze(m): 7:00pm On Jun 16, 2018
Buharisef:
Messi Is A Goat,yes Agreed But A Female Goat grin
That female goat part got me.... lol
CelebritiesRe: MURIC Backs Down From Suing Falz Over 'This Is Nigeria' Video by HillsBlaze(m): 10:41pm On Jun 10, 2018
the weed this pple are smoking strong o + codeine + tramadol + la casara mixed with Tom tom
Career‘Forget About the Stigma’ Male Nurses Explain Why Nursing Is a Job of the Future by HillsBlaze(op): 12:12pm On Jun 09, 2018
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“I’m sort of an adrenaline junkie, but it’s also the satisfaction of being able to help people, like when you have someone come in who’s overdosed and you treat them and see them turn around just like that.”

J.R. McLain, 50

Emergency department nurse; former Navy mechanic and truck driver

Jake Creviston, a nurse practitioner, has been repeatedly mistaken for a doctor.

Adam White says the veterans he cares for as a student nurse at the V.A. hospital feel comfortable around him because “I’m a big burly guy with a beard.”

Glenn Fletcher, after being laid off from a lumber mill during the financial crisis, found a new career in nursing. And with it, “a really good feeling putting your head on the pillow realizing you’ve helped other people.”

The experiences of male nurses offer lessons that could help address a problem of our time: how to prepare workers for the fastest-growing jobs, at a time when more than a quarter of adult men are not in the labor force.

Only 13 percent of nurses in the United States are men, but that share has grown steadily since 1960, when the number was 2 percent, according to a working paper published in October by the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.

“It’s not a flood, but it’s a change,” said Abigail Wozniak, an economist at the University of Notre Dame, who wrote the paper with Elizabeth Munnich, an economist at the University of Louisville. The biggest drivers, they found, were the changing economy and expanding gender roles.

We talked to a dozen male nurses, with various career paths and specialties, working in the Pacific Northwest, where recruitment efforts have focused on bringing men into nursing. Some were drawn to the caregiving, others to the adrenaline of the work. It’s a reliable, well-paying job at a time when that’s hard to come by, they said, but also one they feel proud of.

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“When my wife told her grandfather that I graduated from nursing school, he just laughed. But I think there are more men who are less afraid to take on what have traditionally been considered feminine roles.”

John-Flor Sisante, 38

Recent nursing graduate interested in hospice nursing; former musician

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“Walk around our hospital and all the call lights have pictures of females on them. I guess it was never thought of at the time that there might be a guy in here some day.”

Glenn Fletcher, 49

Operating room nurse; former lumber mill worker

Women have been entering male-dominated fields for decades, but it’s less common for a predominantly female occupation to have a substantial increase in its share of men. Yet the jobs that are shrinking tend to be male ones, and those that are growing are mostly female.

Nursing is no paragon of gender equality: Even though men are a minority, they are paid more than women. The stigma against men still runs deep, particularly among older patients and in parts of the country with more traditional gender roles, nurses said. (Several said the movie “Meet the Parents,” in which Ben Stiller played a nurse whose girlfriend’s father wasn’t thrilled about his career, didn’t help.)

But for some men, the notion that caregiving jobs are women’s work is outdated. Progressive attitudes about gender roles, as measured by the General Social Survey, were associated with more men who entered nursing, the new paper found.

“This narrative that men can’t provide care in the way that women can is part of that broad cultural narrative that misunderstands what nursing’s about,” said Mr. White, the V.A. hospital student nurse, who is earning his nursing degree at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland. “We need to talk with young people about caring as a gender-neutral idea, but also as something that’s rooted in skills, in expertise.”

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“When we notice that our boys are gifted in math and science and they say, ‘I want to be a doctor when I grow up,’ we could say, ‘That’s great, you could even be a nurse if you wanted to!’ ”

Adam White, 35

Nursing student; former banker

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“You’re a caregiver, providing quality, dignified care. It’s not you doing it as a male or a female, but just generally as a caregiver.”

Justin Kuunifaa, 41

Family practice nurse; former in-home caregiver

The researchers also found that economic factors have played a role — a decline in some jobs because of automation, trade and the housing crisis, and a growth in jobs and wages in health care. Nursing is growing much faster than the average occupation, and wages have increased steadily since 1980. The median salary is $68,450, about the same as the median salary for college-educated workers over all.

“A lot of those manufacturing jobs and things of that nature just aren’t there anymore,” said David Baca, an emergency department nurse in Medford, Ore. “We get paid a really livable wage, and I think that is now starting to attract more male nurses.”

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“It’s a good profession because it’ll always be there. They’ll always need nurses. It can’t be outsourced, it can’t be automated.”

David Baca, 37

Emergency department nurse; former handyman

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“My mother’s a nurse, but for some reason it had never occurred to me to become a nurse until I had a conversation with another man, who used to be an E.M.T. but became a nurse, and something just clicked.”

Peter Stach, 36

In-home palliative care nurse; former server and bartender

The paper used census data about men who were born in the United States and turned 18 between 1973 and 2013. They found that the increase in male nurses was largely uniform across the country, although black and Hispanic men and those in rural areas were less likely to become nurses.

Nursing is a career that both men and women often start later in life, in part because it’s possible to become certified midcareer and without a bachelor’s degree. But as hospitals increasingly require nurses to have a four-year degree, it could become a barrier for men who want to enter the field, the researchers said.

“We learned that workers can take a very long time to settle into occupations, but that is not the traditional path that we think of when we think about training our work force,” Ms. Wozniak said.

Male nurses are more likely than females to have worked as emergency medical technicians, military nurses or lab technicians, and to work in acute care in hospitals rather than primary care clinics. Nearly half of nurse anesthetists, one of the highest-paying nursing jobs, are men.

In interviews, men said they liked the variety of work: Nurses can be bedside caregivers, surgery assistants, educators, technicians or administrators.

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“Forget about the stigma. The pay is great, the opportunities are endless and you end up going home every day knowing that you did something very positive for someone else.”

Jorge Gitler, 50

Oncology nurse manager; former business owner

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“Men desire to be caring, and you get a chance to have a career that allows you to care for people meaningfully.”

Graham Seaton, 41

Hospital infection prevention and neuro-trauma nurse; former retail and nonprofit worker

Several said they felt an advantage in applying for nursing jobs because men are a minority in the field. Hospitals and patients benefit when nurses more closely reflect the patient population, research shows.

Sometimes patients prefer a nurse of a certain sex, particularly for procedures like inserting a catheter, nurses said, and some men feel more comfortable talking openly with another man.

“I work on this floor with people who just had urology surgery or amputations, and they have told me that when I come in the room and shut the door behind me, they feel more understood and can drop the tough guy attitude,” Mr. White said.

Nursing became a woman’s job because women were seen as natural caregivers, said Patricia D’Antonio, a nursing historian at the University of Pennsylvania. But until the second half of the 19th century, men were assigned nursing jobs that required physical strength and bravery, like caring for patients during a dangerous epidemic. That began to change when Florence Nightingale brought a group of female nurses to the Crimean War in 1854.

Nursing became such a gendered profession that men were barred from serving in the Army Nurse Corps during the two world wars. Not until the 1960s did the nursing field begin trying to better reflect its patients in terms of both gender and race, Ms. D’Antonio said.

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“It’s not just a job. You have this sense of purpose, this sense of service, that you’re in this to really help improve people’s lives.”

Jonathan Auld, 44

Clinical nurse leader and nursing Ph.D. student; former elementary school teacher

The Oregon Center for Nursing, a work force development group, began recruiting male and minority prospects to nursing in the early 2000s. It started a marketing campaign — “Are you man enough to be a nurse?” — that spread nationwide. Posters showed male nurses carrying a snowboard or wearing a motorcycle jacket.

“It was just rethinking how we describe the work and focusing on the kind of person it takes to be a great nurse,” said Deborah Burton, who founded the center and is now chief nursing officer at Providence St. Joseph Health, a health care system in the West.

More recently, efforts to recruit male nurses have focused less on gender and more on the rewards of the career, with the slogan, “Do what you love and you’ll love what you do.”

Nurses said they welcomed the change. “I don’t think we’re doing any favors to society by conveying this message that nursing is this super masculine thing,” said Mr. Creviston, a psychiatric nurse practitioner and mental health nursing professor in Portland, Ore. “If your motive is to bring the right men into the field, show how rewarding it is to hold the hand of a dying person.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/04/upshot/male-nurses.html
CelebritiesRe: MURIC To Falz: "Withdraw ‘This Is Nigeria’ Video Within 7 Days Or Else" by HillsBlaze(m): 1:43pm On Jun 05, 2018
This people should be classified as a terrorist organization... They are a threat to the peace and continued corporate existence of this nation.
PoliticsRe: Failed Governor Can’t Sell Failed Candidate To Us – PDP Tells Akeredolu by HillsBlaze(m): 7:12pm On Jun 04, 2018
This one na serious Mortal Kombat finishing... Who dash monkey banana to reply this savage post...
PoliticsRe: Igbos Will Show Gratitude To Buhari In 2019 With Their Votes – Tony Momoh by HillsBlaze(m): 12:23pm On May 31, 2018
I don't know what these buharideens are high on... very crazy set of people

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