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Knightmode.blogspot.com (aka https://www.knightmode.com) has been having a lot of technical issues lately. 

We will be going through a massive revamping. Our mirror site at knightmode.wordpress.com will be fully functional...








Originally intended to be an information site for a HIV/AIDS group, we moved on to be an online nursing magazine for nurses and other health care providers. The HIV/AIDS group is functional on Facebook at   

(GROUP) Fight Against HIV/AIDS Transmission (FAHAT) Facebook Group · 446 members Join Group A GROUP OF PEOPLE COME TOGETHER TO HELP CREATE AWARENESS IN THE INTERIOR OF OUR COMMUNITIES ON HIV/AIDS, ENCOURAGING YOUTHS TO GET TO KNOW THEIR HIV/A...

 https://web.facebook.com/groups/fahat4u/  

with the page at https://web.facebook.com/fahatpage/ .

"Prestige" was the name of the online nursing magazine aimed at nurses and other health professionals. Its focus was to give career advice, and information about the medical field and also job openings.

"Knightmode" encompasses all of these and introduced the site to the general population.
However at the moment, due to technical issues, we will be having a general overhaul of the site.

Visit Knightmode.wordpress.com for recent posts and updates! 


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News: Ebola in DRC

HEALTH CRISES: In case you do not know, there is an outbreak of Ebola in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). 

A suspected case in Goma (the capital of North Kivu province in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo) has tested negative for the virus. There is one newly confirmed case, however in Mabalaka, as well as two new fatalities in probable cases in Beni.

Meanwhile,  the outbreak totals now stand at 115 cases, 85 of them confirmed, 30 probable. This is  according to an update from the DRC ministry of health. 77 people have died. One person has recovered from his or her illness.

READ: Ebola patients attended church with 50 people before dying.

Currently, 10 cases remain under investigation, but one of two suspected cases announced yesterday in Goma has been ruled out.

Goma is the capital of North Kivu province, and is near the border with Rwanda. A confirmed case there would increase the risk of the virus spreading internationally.

According to World Health Organization (WHO), 19 patients have received experimental Ebola treatments, including mAb114, ZMapp, and remdesivir.

Two of those patients have recovered and been discharged, 16 are currently receiving treatment, and 1 person has died.

This is the first outbreak in which Ebola treatments have been used.

Read the full story here

2 Ebola patients attended church with 50 people before dying.

Two Democratic Republic of Congo Ebola patients who fled the hospital in the city of Mbandaka on Monday attended a prayer meeting with 50 people hours before they died, Jean-Clement Cabrol, an emergency medical coordinator at Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), said on Thursday, 24th May 2018.

Health officials are scrambling to contain an outbreak of the deadly disease in the heavily populated port city in northwest Congo that is believed to have killed 22 people since April.

Two new deaths from Ebola and seven new confirmed cases have been recorded in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the health ministry said on Tuesday.

One of the deaths occurred in the provincial capital of Mbandaka, according to a daily bulletin.

A nurse also died in the village of Bikoro, where the outbreak was first detected, ministry spokeswoman Jessica Ilunga told Reuters.

Read also: Nurse Justina's Story From The Grave

The ministry said the seven new confirmed cases were registered in Bikoro.

Health officials administered an experimental vaccine on Monday to 33 medical workers and Mbandaka residents, WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic told reporters in Geneva.

The vaccine manufacturer Merck has provided WHO with 8,640 doses of the vaccine and an additional 8,000 doses are expected to be available in the coming days, WHO said.

Congo’s ninth outbreak of Ebola since 1976 is believed to have killed at least 28 people so far.

Officials are particularly concerned by its appearance in Mbandaka, a crowded trading hub on the Congo River with the road, water and air links to Congo’s capital, Kinshasa.

NAN reports that the WHO said it will need 26 million dollars for the Ebola Response in the DRC over the next three months.

WHO said it had also released two million dollars from its Contingency Fund for Emergencies, to scale up the Ebola response.

The Government of DRC, with the support of WHO partners, is preparing to vaccinate high-risk populations against Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in affected health zones.

The organisation said health workers operating in affected areas were being vaccinated on Monday and community outreach had started to prepare for the ring vaccination.

More than 7,500 doses of the rVSV-ZEBOV Ebola vaccine have been deployed to DRC to conduct vaccination in the northwestern Equator Province where 46 suspected, probable and confirmed Ebola cases and 26 deaths have been reported – as of Friday

Source: The Punch

Cholera outbreak kills 12 in Adamawa, Nigeria

A cholera outbreak has killed 12 people and may have infected at least 134 others in the northeast Nigerian state of Adamawa, a medical official said on Wednesday 23rd May 2018.

At least 134 others may be infected in the state of Adamawa where nurses are on strike and many have been displaced from war, making it difficult to deal with an outbreak of such magnitude.

Ezra Sakawa, medical director of the general hospital for Mubi, the town where the disease has struck said no fewer than 12 people have died from the disease and that there were many more cases. He also noted that there was little manpower to deal with the outbreak as nurses were on strike.

A senior official at the state health ministry Bwalki Dilli, told the News Agency of Nigeria that the ministry with the support of other partners like WHO had set up a 24-hour treatment centre at Mubi General Hospital.

He urged the public to be on alert and observe personal and environmental hygiene, adding that the state emergency operation centre had dedicated toll-free telephone lines for reports and enquires on health emergencies.

The outbreak comes days after the World Health Organization (WHO) announced its collaboration with the Nigerian government on precautionary measures at various seaports, land borders, airports and other entry points to prevent the Ebola virus from entering Nigeria. 


 Source: TRTWorld 

STIs and Oral Sex

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NURSING APPLICATION FORMS ON SALE!

SALES OF NURSING APPLICATION FORMS!!! 

S.O.N. ST. GERARD'S CATHOLIC HOSPITAL KADUNA

Application forms for 2018 intake into 
School of Nursing St. Gerard's Catholic Hospital Kaduna 
for 

BASIC GENERAL NURSING TRAINING

 is on sale at the cost of  N 10,000 only.

Date: Begins Monday, 19th February, 2018

Time: 8:00am — 12:00noon each working day

Venue: St. Gerard's Catholic Hospital - Kaduna

          (ACCOUNT'S OFFICE)

Closing Date. 8th June, 2018

Exam. Date: 16th June, 2018

Venue of Exam.: School of Nursing, St. Gerard's Catholic Hospital, Kaduna

Time: 7:30 am prompt

Entry Qualification:

Five (5) Credits in the following subjects: English language, Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics and Biology in not more than two sittings in WAEC/NECO or combine.

NOTE ISSUES REGARDING FORMS AND SUBMISSION ERRORS E.T.C. SHOULD BE CLEARED LATEST 15TH JUNE, 2018.

Signed:

MANAGEMENT

Cooking ‘moimoi’ with nylon is dangerous!

Cooking ‘moimoi’ with nylon dangerous

Cooking moi-moi, a popular Nigerian delicacy made from beans, in nylons or cellophane bags is dangerous.


A dietician, John Tehinse, gave the warning at an awareness campaign on food safety organised by the Food Safety Awareness Campaign Initiatives, funded by the European Union.

Mr. Tehinse said nylons or cellophane bags produced dioxins when heated, adding that dioxins were highly toxic and can cause reproductive and developmental problems, damage the immune system, interfere with hormones and also cause cancer.

LIVING WITH YOUR BOYFRIEND KILLS SEX DRIVE

This will make you think twice before moving in with your boyfriend or your fiancé.

If you want to keep those hormones jumping you may want to wait a bit before running through those doors!

Meanwhile, isn't living together supposed to get those fire burning? Well, LIZETTE BORRELI of Newsweek had this article to share:


A relationship changes when a couple moves in together. Some changes are good (i.e., cooking dinner together) while some of them aren’t so great for one or the other partner (i.e., toilet seat up). 
Now, there’s a new factor to consider: A team of researchers at the University of Southampton in the U.K. suggests living together and relationship duration can influence sexual desire in couples.


The study, published in the British Medical Journal Open, found both men and women lose interest in sex with time. For both sexes, poor physical and mental health, poor communication and a lack of emotional connection during sex can cause sexual desire to dwindle. Interestingly, women were twice as likely as men to lose interest in sex when living with their partner or while in a relationship lasting more than a year.


This finding confirms what most people already know: Women are more likely to lose interest in sex over time than men, but cohabitation and relationship duration are strong predictors of sexual desire among women. Similarly, a 2012 study in the Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy found the length of a relationship influenced a woman’s sex drive more than sexual satisfaction and satisfaction with the relationship. The researchers theorize this decrease occurs because, over time, the relationship moves from passionate love to compassionate love.

In the new study, the U.K. researchers noted that many of the women’s sexual turnoffs were linked to having children under 5 years old, and to giving birth in the last year.

“This may be due to fatigue associated with a primary caring role, the fact that daily stress appears to affect sexual functioning in women more than men or possibly a shift in focus of attention attendant on bringing up small children,” the authors wrote in the study.

Women who live with their significant other or have been in a relationship for over a year have a lower sex drive.

This coincides with previous research that suggests sex drive decreases after pregnancy. In a study featured in the book Sexuality During and After Pregnancy, author E.L. Ryding found 20 percent of postpartum women had little interest in sex three months after pregnancy, and another 21 percent experienced a complete loss of sexual desire and sometimes an aversion to any kind of sexual activity. Women’s sex drives compete with the overwhelming fatigue of taking care of a newborn, so when a new mother gets a break from this physical attachment, sex could rank low in the list of priorities.


The researchers found that among those surveyed—4,839 British men and 6,669 women aged 16 to 74—34 percent of the women surveyed reported a loss of interest in sex, compared to just 15 percent of men. For women, the lack of interest in sex was most common between the ages of 55 and 64, whereas for men it was between 35 and 44. Moreover, two in five older women were unsatisfied with their sex lives, which researchers believe is linked to stress, pressures of family life and work.


“Our findings show us the importance of the relational context in understanding low sexual interest in both men and women. For women in particular, the quality and length of relationship and communication with their partners are important in their experience of sexual interest,” Cynthia Graham, lead author of the study and a professor at the  Centre for Sexual Health Research at the University of Southampton, said in a statement.

Graham also explained that the study highlights the need to assess and, if necessary, treat sexual interest problems in relationships in a holistic, gender-specific way that goes beyond drugs. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved flibanserin, the first ever drug treatment for hypoactive sexual disorder in premenopausal women to boost the female libido. However, if the problem is more about open communication and emotional closeness, talking to your partner may help more than taking a drug.

Ref: Newsweek

The Most Important Healthy Behaviour That Will Prevent High Blood Pressure

You probably already know that certain healthy lifestyle behaviors can reduce your risk of developing high blood pressure, but is any one behavior more important than the others?


Maybe, as new research suggests maintaining a healthy weight is the No. 1 behavior to prevent unhealthy blood pressure levels.

"Our results indicate by maintaining a healthy body weight into middle age, you can help preserve low blood pressure," said the study's lead author, John Booth III. He's a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

"There have been increases in blood pressure at younger ages, which are linked to heart disease and stroke," Booth said. "We evaluated the long-term impact of maintaining healthy behaviors on [high blood pressure]."

Booth and his colleagues looked at the effects of five healthy behaviors:

• Never smoking

• Drinking 7 or fewer alcoholic drinks weekly for women or 14 or fewer drinks a week for men

• Eating a healthy diet (following the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension, or DASH diet)

• Getting 150 minutes or more a week of moderate to vigorous physical activity

• Maintaining a healthy weight.

The study included almost 4,700 volunteers. They were between 18 and 30 years old when the study started in 1985 and 1986.

Over 25 years of follow-up, the researchers measured blood pressure and health behaviors eight times.

People who maintained a healthy body weight were 41 percent less likely to see their blood pressure rise as they approached middle age.

Study volunteers who maintained at least four of the healthy behaviors had a 27 percent decreased risk of high blood pressure by middle age.

Staying physically active and eating a healthy diet weren't specifically linked to a better blood pressure.

On the other hand, never smoking and drinking little to no alcohol seemed to keep blood pressure lower in middle age. But the researchers said a larger study is needed to confirm these because they may have been a chance finding.

Since maintaining a healthy body weight appears to be a more important behavior than the others, does that mean you don't need to be concerned about a healthy diet or getting enough exercise?

Not at all, Booth said.

He said other health behaviors are linked to maintaining a healthy weight, with exercise and a healthy diet chief among them.

"Multiple factors are contributing to the risk for developing high blood pressure across the life span, and these factors all interact together," Booth noted.

Still, the study showed a clear benefit to staying trim from a young age through middle age.

Just what is it about weight that may boost blood pressure?

Dr. Howard Selinger is chair of family medicine at the Frank H. Netter M.D. School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University in North Haven, Conn. He said weight may contribute to high blood pressure in a number of ways.

"When you gain weight, your heart has to work harder because the weight has a compressive effect on the blood vessels. Over decades, that can produce cardiac problems. The vascular bed -- the blood vessels -- stiffens as we get older," Selinger said.

But for people who don't gain weight, there's less stiffening. "That, in turn, keeps blood pressure lower and prevents more serious outcomes. If you lower your weight, you lower the pressure," Selinger explained.

He said weight is clearly an important factor in keeping blood pressure at a healthy level. But he considers the other factors important too, especially never smoking.

Findings from the study were scheduled for presentation  at an American Heart Association meeting, in San Francisco. 

Studies presented at meetings are generally viewed as preliminary until they've been published in a peer-reviewed journal.


Medicine Net

Still On The OPM Issue!

#ExcuseMe but you cannot become a nurse in 3 weeks...

#ExcuseMe you cannot learn Anatomy, Physiology and Pharmacology in just one month!...

#ExcuseMe Nursing is a profession not a skill

#ExcuseMe You are not licensed to practice as a nurse!

#ExcuseMe YOU ARE A QUACK!

It is rather disheartening that we harbor quacks and encourage them to thrive in our health system.  

On his Facebook wall, Kelvin O. Ossai, a Nurse Practitioner with Prime Medical Consultants lamented on the OPM vidoe where a group of "so-called" nurses where paraded ...and then a Facebook user Lilian Opurum had this to say:

"Why do you people always condemn but can not help, you people have not heard of ancillary nurses before,that they assist registered or licensed nurses even in government hospitals, do you know how many lives that man has touched, some in OPM free nursery and primary school, scholarship to study in higher institutions when you make good grades, money to start business, OPM welding and fabrication and oil and gas training, skill acquisition in the different craft, accommodation for the homeless, OPM free restaurant, free football training, going to @sh@w0 (Prostitutes) quarters to lead to Christ and trains them in skill acquisition, 

Meanwhile @Kelvin Says:

I'm a Christian, but I'm also a Nurse.

I owe myself a responsibility to live right and also protect the health of those around me in every way possible.

How a church will start to train Quacks in the name of SKILL ACQUISITION still baffles me.

Nursing is a profession, and by every standard has its legal and educational operations.

For a church to say they are training nurse and midwives in 👉ONE MONTH is still ridiculous to me.

Let me tell you what this will cause:

• First, this will lead to increased number of pregnant church members having their babies in church, and thus increase maternal and foetal death.

• Secondly, most members may be improperly diagnosed and this will lead to increased death... From different sources.

If the church had intentions of training their members, what stops them from picking up school of nursing or jamb forms for this members and give them scholarship if and when they gain admission.?

Believe me, whether you are a Christian or not, a Muslim or not, if you get wrongly managed, the prognoses of the illness won't be good.

I AM A CHRISTIAN, BUT THIS IS WRONG.

#SayNoToQuackTraining

#SayNoToQuacksInNursing

#SayNoToHandsThatKill

See video 

OPM TRAINING OF NURSES IS PURELY QUACKERY

The Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria in a memo sent out following the public and vehement outcry by Registered Nurses across the country and obtained by a Nursingworld Nigeria Correspondent had this to say on the Viral Video making the rounds about the Omega Power Ministry presenting some in white and trained for just "3 weeks" as nurses to its congregation.



Omega Power Ministry has her international HQ at OPM Close, off Eliozu road Portharcourt or at No 9 Olutosin ajayi street, Oshodi, Isolo, Ajao Estate Lagos.

Find below the memo:

OPM TRAINING OF NURSES IS PURELY QUACKERY. 

I want to assure Nurses of this Country that the Council is aware of the issue and we are going to do everything possible to investigate and get to the root of the matter and necessary actions taken.

The OPM founder is aware of the laws that it is the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria that has the powers by law to accredit Schools of Nursing and Midwifery to train Nurses and Midwives in Nigeria and also to licence them to practice.

We (Council) are putting modalities to handle the matter,  please Nurses be rest assured of the Council's assurance in protecting our Noble Profession.

Thank you.

SignedNMCN Zonal officer, South South, Port Harcourt


REF: This article first appeared on www.nursingworldnigeria.com 

Diary of a Proud Nurse

Diary of a Proud Nurse 

Dear Diary,

"l am a nurse, I didn't become a nurse because I was denied admission into medical school or failed other courses, but rather I chose it. 

Nurse Thompson, B 

~Female Nurse Wednesday~ 

"l am a nurse, I didn't become a nurse because I was denied admission into medical school or failed other courses, but rather I chose it. 


I work to maintain my patients dignity through trying times, difficult long term decisions and heart breaking situations. 

I share in the joy of the newborn, and miraculously cured illnesses. 

I share in the heartbreak of a child taken too soon, a disease too powerful and a life changed forever. 

My patient is often an entire family. 

I assess , manage, mentor, direct, and advocate, oftentimes I serve medications ignoring the aching feet and cracked hands galore. 

But, these aren't the extent of what I do. 

I get screamed and shouted at, punched and hit, but this is a profession I will never quit. 

Most times, the media portray nurses as people of error, creating a negative mental picture about the profession to the public. 

If they really know what our day details, how kind and sacrificial my noble colleagues are and how we strive not to fail. 

There are people above me and people below. 
I work closely with both  - without them, I could not do what I do well. 

I chose this profession and love almost every minute of it. 

I know I'm not alone and I appreciate all of the nurses who work alongside me. many of them have shaped me into the nurse I am. 

Someday, I will shape others into the nurse they would be. 

This wasn't my plan B, rather it was my plan A and I will gladly choose it over and over again. 

#diaryofaproudnurse #caringiswhoweare #nursesmaynotbeangelsbuttheyarethenextbestthings #itakeprideinwhatido #strivingtobeabetternurse #nurseThompsonB #NurseSelfies . #WomanCrushWednesday . #FemaleNurseWednesday . #NursesOfFacebook

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