Becoming the best version of myself.
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I used to think nurses do 85% of the work in the hospital till I worked in a teaching hospital with HOs......
E remain make dem carry mop start to clean floor 😭💔
Massive respect to every HO on the tl🙏🏿❤️🩹
Friendly Neighborhood Nurse retweeted
This is an aspect of medicine we don’t talk about enough. Thank you for highlighting it.
Supporting people through emergencies, loss and life-changing diagnoses can take an emotional and psychological toll.
Being a doctor doesn’t make us immune to distress. Caring for others should never mean overlooking ourselves.
Friendly Neighborhood Nurse retweeted
Hi Everyone, please I need your help.
I’ve battled Keloid since I was 2 as a result of the first ear piercing which was done at birth and was done wrongly.
My parents have gone through several options given to them and it keeps reoccurring.
I’ve done several surgical removal that I can’t even keep count both in general hospitals and private hospitals and they always finish up with kenalog as usual, I did cryotherapy for 2years with a popular Bumps clinic and the pain from the procedure almost paralyzed the left part of my body as it became weaker and I couldn’t use it, still it resurfaced.
Since 2015 I’ve been in and out of the hospital over this keloid, one general hospital suggested removing the whole ear which might cause another issue as it could still grow again.
I’ve been going through excruciating pains, every single day of my life I’m in pains, I’ve been popping painkillers like who’s taking candy, I barely sleep at night
Most days I’m awake till morning, once it’s night I get scared cos the pains becomes unbearable.
Sometimes I take sleeping pills just to get through the night.
I can’t go out, I can’t even show up for my business, my parents and siblings have had to give up their finances every single year because of me. Last year November, my sister single-handedly took care of the bills for the procedure I did.
At some point the Keloid started to accumulate abscess, it becomes so much that I’ve had to go through drainage process, I did one last year as well.
And all of these have made the keloid very aggressive and it grows faster by the day, the last removal procedure I did was in April of last year, the growth you’re seeing in frame 1 is just 1year and 7months growth which is unusually fast.
Since I finished my service year I’ve been at home because I couldn’t work with this condition, I even had to let go of a few job opportunities I was recommended for with the hope of getting this done before I fully commit.
A doctor I met recommended LASUTH earlier this year and since May I’ve been trying to get booked for surgery, initially I was booked for surgery but I wasn’t told everything it entailed, my first surgery date was September 11th and it was moved later on due to the strike.
I was opportuned to secure a consultation again with the Burns and Plastic unit (BPSU) yesterday in LASUTH and the consultant put me through everything I needed for the keloid to not reoccur.
He said I needed at least 2 Radiotherapy sessions of which one has to be done exactly 24hrs after the surgical removal and then another few weeks after.
After which I have to undergo chemotherapy and then post op care which includes injections, drugs,silicone creams, and any other recommended care.
The Radiotherapy is to be done in LUTH (I was given a reference letter for it) after making enquiries in LUTH, the estimate of one radiotherapy session was given at 2.5m, and I’ll be needing 2sessions which sums up to 5m. Then the surgery for the removal of the Keloid costs 1.2m and I’ve been able to come up with that. Then after the surgery I’m to undergo chemotherapy and post op care but I have not been told how much that would cost, so I am unsure of the entire cost of that but the estimation according to what I’ve researched is about 2m.
LASUTH have given me November 19th for my next and last consultation before the removal and this simply means I have to come up with the money for everything before then.
So in total what will be needed for the successful surgery and post op care is 8.2m of which I’ve already raised 1.2m and I’m left to source for 7m before the 19th of November.
This was really really hard for me to do as I have never done this before but this is my last resort as I have exhausted all my options and I have spent more than 6months alone trying to get booked with LASUTH.
Please help me get my life back together 🙏
Any amount will go a long way🙏
0427940035
Nancy Chidinma
Wema Bank
Friendly Neighborhood Nurse retweeted
“Small acts of compassion can become someone’s lasting memory of their hardest day.”
On several occasions, when I’ve been involved in medical emergencies or while breaking bad news, I’ve seen how much simple gestures matter: sitting beside someone, acknowledging their fear, offering a tissue or asking, “Is there someone you’d like me to call?”
It might be offering a warm blanket, protecting their privacy, explaining what’s happening in simple words, checking their understanding or offering a hand to hold if they’re comfortable with that.
Sometimes, it’s simply giving them space to cry or voice their frustrations, listening without judgement and allowing silence without rushing to fill it.
We cannot always change the outcome, but we can help people feel heard, supported and less alone. 🤍
"Acts of compassion during a period of trauma may last a lifetime in a person’s memory."
Brian Kulp describes the lasting effects of compassion and humour from healthcare professionals during a medical emergency
bmj.com/content/395/bmj-2026…
Friendly Neighborhood Nurse retweeted
Interesting how a survey exploring perceptions of terms of endearment across social and professional settings has been misrepresented by “some parties” as an attempt to make calling someone “dear” sexual assault. That claim is false. ❌❌❌
The survey explores how words can be received differently depending on context, tone and relationships, from friendly conversations to professional discussions and disagreements.
These reactions reflect a mindset more interested in winning today’s argument than considering what we could learn for tomorrow. Misrepresenting an enquiry and insulting the person behind it adds nothing useful to society.
📝 Kindly complete the survey if you haven’t already, and share it with others. Different perspectives matter.
📚 Relevant literature and similar publications are in the comments. ⬇️
Terms of Endearment Across Social and Professional Settings
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The recent Twitter debate highlighted how “dear” or “babe” can feel friendly in one setting but patronising and dismissive during professional disagreement/discussions, particularly when used by male colleagues towards female colleagues.
The differing perceptions reflects reduced awareness/understanding on this matter …
Research has linked endearment use with sexist attitudes in some settings and documented unequal professional forms of address.
Nigerian research explores culturally shaped forms of address, but how recipients interpret them across different settings remains underexplored.
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As a result, I’m conducting an anonymised survey for women aged 18+ to explore these experiences. Analysis will examine patterns of perceived warmth, respect or dismissal and inform practical suggestions for better communication
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forms.gle/AukV89T1khHziqE19
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Your perspective matters, whether these words feel friendly, uncomfortable or somewhere in between.
📤 Share it with friends, colleagues and women’s groups. A wider range of voices will help better understand different experiences.
Friendly Neighborhood Nurse retweeted
Really sad. 😞💔
Just last week/this week , I faced backlash and called names for highlighting that a categorical “yes” or “no” to “pregnancy is a death sentence” overlooks individual experiences.
Pregnancy can FEEL like a death sentence for some, and unfortunately in this case it became a death sentence , while others may have a relatively straightforward experience. People should be able to share their experiences without being dismissed.
I find myself wondering whether having her baby in the UK might have changed the outcome (not saying there are no maternal deaths but chances of survival might have been higher ). It’s heartbreaking to think about what might have been. May her family find strength and comfort. 🙏🏾
British woman, Claire Chadwick, left Cardiff, Wales to live in Nigeria with her husband, Ibrahim.
The couple ran a popular TikTok account named 'Ibrahim and Claire', where they regularly shared posts about food challenges, their faith, and their relationship.
Claire, who was 37 weeks pregnant, sadly died due to septic complications after her baby had died in the womb.
Her devastated family has since launched a GoFundMe to raise £10,000 to fly her body 3,000 miles home to the UK. The fundraiser has so far raised £10,478.
She is survived by her 19-year-old son in Wales.
May her soul rest in perfect peace and may God comfort the grieving family she left behind.
Friendly Neighborhood Nurse retweeted
This is the day the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. 🙏🏾
Friendly Neighborhood Nurse retweeted
Do you have National Health insurance or you are waiting for medical Emergency or health conditions to embarrass you, you still think having health insurance is a waste of money ?
You are not serious and just a tinking time-Bomb .
Get health insurance for yourself and parent
Went back home due to certain reasons.....now looking for a new job and a certain hospital is asking if I can drive 😭
Please If you know about any job openings in Warri- kindly hit me up🙏🏿
Friendly Neighborhood Nurse retweeted
Apparently, my wardrobe has been following the US elections. 😂💙
Beyond the outfit jokes, two things caught my attention: the overwhelming Democratic support among Black women voters, and women physicians stepping into political leadership. 👏🏾
Among the physicians elected:
✨ Dr Annie Andrews, MD, MSCR
Paediatrics and Paediatric Hospital Medicine.
Elected senator for South Carolina.
✨ Dr Amy Acton, MD, MPH
Preventive Medicine and Public Health.
Elected Ohio’s first woman governor.
✨ Dr Kim Schrier, MD
Paediatrics.
Re-elected to the House for Washington.
✨ Dr Maxine Dexter, MD
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine.
Re-elected to the House for Oregon.
✨ Dr Kelly Morrison, MD
Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
Re-elected to the House for Minnesota.
✨ Dr Abdul El-Sayed, MD, DPhil
Epidemiology and Public Health, with a doctorate from Oxford.
Elected senator for Michigan.
Seeing women physicians bring their experience into public leadership is encouraging. And Black women’s political participation deserves recognition beyond a headline or an election night. 🤍
For me, the wider career lesson is this: your medical degree can open doors you haven’t considered yet.
You can care for patients, teach, research, build, create, advocate and help shape policy. Your interests beyond clinical practice deserve room to grow.
Meanwhile, let me get to saving more lives until I decide if I’m changing career 😂💙🩺
💬 What ambition would you like to explore beyond your current job?
📤 Share with a woman whose potential you believe in.
🔖 Save for a little encouragement.
➕ Follow for medicine, leadership and life beyond the job title
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#Midterms2026
BPH follow too?
Why nau??? One person 😭
Okay na....God dey
E get stage of depression wey you go reach, you go just dey smile.
Please people that have managed parents with chronic illnesses just drop what kept you going in the CS.
You might throw away the messenger but don't throw away the message.
Many Nigerian doctors have no idea how economically disadvantaged they are the day they leave medical school.
Tell them the facts and they call it rage bait. So let's look at the facts.
What are you actually being paid for?
Two things:
1. Your knowledge, which gives you the ability to diagnose and prescribe.
2. Your skills.
Those are the only two things you can sell to the public.
Yet Nigerian doctors are never taught that their skills belong to them, that they are products you can sell directly.
We are groomed to believe our skills belong to an institution, a hospital. It never occurs to us to take them to the public.
Now look at the real value of each.
SKILLS
A doctor fresh out of housemanship is not far from a nurse in skill. This isn't even a bold claim. There is very little a doctor can do that a nurse can't.
A doctor can cannulate. So can a nurse.
A doctor can give injections. So can a nurse.
Most doctors can only assist in a caesarean. Nurses and midwives have far more hands-on experience in obstetrics.
A seasoned midwife has delivered more babies than the average MBBS holder ever will.
A study in a Nigerian teaching hospital found that midwives performed about 75% of episiotomies. That is experience, and it's not on the doctor's side.
And nurses handle sick patients. Sustaining the already-sick is literally their job.
Strip away legal authority, the licence, signing death certificates, and giving a diagnosis to an undifferentiated patient, and there is almost nothing a doctor does that a nurse can't.
Why should this threaten you?
Because when the public needs first aid, obstetric care, women's health care, cannulation, an IV line, or bed care, they hire a nurse. A nurse is cheaper.
The public does not care that you studied for 6 to 8 years. They'll take the nurse who studied for 5 and can do everything they need at that moment.
Nurses are hired for private and home care far more than doctors are. They're cheaper and they still make a profit. That is a massive economic disadvantage.
KNOWLEDGE
Diagnosis and prescription are your edge. They are functions of what you know. But knowledge today is free.
Nobody cares how much you spent learning it.
Anyone who can read can find it: the internet, free books, AI.
People self-prescribe more than they get prescribed to, even in Nigeria. They ask AI about their symptoms before they ever see a doctor.
Your edge over the average person is real, but it is smaller than it used to be, and it isn't big enough to carry your income.
And once a patient already knows the diagnosis and the plan, what they need is someone to sustain them. They don't need a doctor. They need a nurse.
Your edge as a doctor (diagnosis and prescription) is neither definitive nor sustainable as a product. That is your economic disadvantage.
THE WAY OUT
1. Connect with the public
You see 30, 40, 60 patients a day, and you make connections with none of them.
Doctors still refuse to give patients their number, claiming it's a disturbance.
Every time you refuse, you turn down an income stream.
You are one step from being a family doctor.
Give a family your rate card: this is my monthly fee, and this is when you can reach me.
A desperate patient will need less than five minutes to decide. These patients are a community, and a community is income.
In a poor economy, institutions will not pay you what you're worth.
Break your dependence on them by connecting with the public and earning from them directly. That is why communication and connection matter.
If you do this well enough you won't need to be employed in any clinic to earn decent income
2. Upskill
Diagnosis and prescription are only the beginning. They tell the patient what the problem is. They don't solve it.
Move into residency immediately after medical school, and choose a specialty that offers definitive solutions: dermatology, urology, fields where you see the patient and don't have to refer them out...
Friendly Neighborhood Nurse retweeted
I try to gain sense from what most people call nonsense. I separate facts from the louziness of the person writing it. Some claims are exaggerated but there's some truth here, if you are looking for medical money
Many Nigerian doctors have no idea how economically disadvantaged they are the day they leave medical school.
Tell them the facts and they call it rage bait. So let's look at the facts.
What are you actually being paid for?
Two things:
1. Your knowledge, which gives you the ability to diagnose and prescribe.
2. Your skills.
Those are the only two things you can sell to the public.
Yet Nigerian doctors are never taught that their skills belong to them, that they are products you can sell directly.
We are groomed to believe our skills belong to an institution, a hospital. It never occurs to us to take them to the public.
Now look at the real value of each.
SKILLS
A doctor fresh out of housemanship is not far from a nurse in skill. This isn't even a bold claim. There is very little a doctor can do that a nurse can't.
A doctor can cannulate. So can a nurse.
A doctor can give injections. So can a nurse.
Most doctors can only assist in a caesarean. Nurses and midwives have far more hands-on experience in obstetrics.
A seasoned midwife has delivered more babies than the average MBBS holder ever will.
A study in a Nigerian teaching hospital found that midwives performed about 75% of episiotomies. That is experience, and it's not on the doctor's side.
And nurses handle sick patients. Sustaining the already-sick is literally their job.
Strip away legal authority, the licence, signing death certificates, and giving a diagnosis to an undifferentiated patient, and there is almost nothing a doctor does that a nurse can't.
Why should this threaten you?
Because when the public needs first aid, obstetric care, women's health care, cannulation, an IV line, or bed care, they hire a nurse. A nurse is cheaper.
The public does not care that you studied for 6 to 8 years. They'll take the nurse who studied for 5 and can do everything they need at that moment.
Nurses are hired for private and home care far more than doctors are. They're cheaper and they still make a profit. That is a massive economic disadvantage.
KNOWLEDGE
Diagnosis and prescription are your edge. They are functions of what you know. But knowledge today is free.
Nobody cares how much you spent learning it.
Anyone who can read can find it: the internet, free books, AI.
People self-prescribe more than they get prescribed to, even in Nigeria. They ask AI about their symptoms before they ever see a doctor.
Your edge over the average person is real, but it is smaller than it used to be, and it isn't big enough to carry your income.
And once a patient already knows the diagnosis and the plan, what they need is someone to sustain them. They don't need a doctor. They need a nurse.
Your edge as a doctor (diagnosis and prescription) is neither definitive nor sustainable as a product. That is your economic disadvantage.
THE WAY OUT
1. Connect with the public
You see 30, 40, 60 patients a day, and you make connections with none of them.
Doctors still refuse to give patients their number, claiming it's a disturbance.
Every time you refuse, you turn down an income stream.
You are one step from being a family doctor.
Give a family your rate card: this is my monthly fee, and this is when you can reach me.
A desperate patient will need less than five minutes to decide. These patients are a community, and a community is income.
In a poor economy, institutions will not pay you what you're worth.
Break your dependence on them by connecting with the public and earning from them directly. That is why communication and connection matter.
If you do this well enough you won't need to be employed in any clinic to earn decent income
2. Upskill
Diagnosis and prescription are only the beginning. They tell the patient what the problem is. They don't solve it.
Move into residency immediately after medical school, and choose a specialty that offers definitive solutions: dermatology, urology, fields where you see the patient and don't have to refer them out...
Friendly Neighborhood Nurse retweeted
I woke up this morning and couldn’t find my usual morning wood. I was surprised and worried cos it’s one of my prized asset currently.
I immediately checked my FBS to be sure it was normal. Checked my other vitals and they were good.
I tried to remember all the good times I’ve had with it and still nothing.
Just like a flash, it dawned on me I hadn’t checked the most important place.
I immediately reached for my phones and checked my banking apps, checked the account balance and immediately understood why.
The balance was low, so my asset couldn’t rise.
TINUBU WANTS TO TAKE MY ASSET AWAY FROM ME.
VOTE TINUBU OUT!
Thank you
Thank you
Thank you
Friendly Neighborhood Nurse retweeted
God please,
Is there a way I can negotiate for my dad's life? Can you give him like 5years from mine?😭
This man can't go nowwwww.
Please 🙏🏿
Friendly Neighborhood Nurse retweeted
E get stage of depression wey you go reach, you go just dey smile and you just dey give out your things!
The next stage na suicide.
