Your Relationship with Food
All foods are acceptable, Miriam surmises, eating them all at once is not. My mother has dealt with Type […]
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Keeping Diabetes in Check
A nurse knows that what is not written is not done. So should you.
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SUPPORT SYSTEMS IN CHRONIC DISEASES
When I was diagnosed with high blood pressure and end stage kidney disease, I believed she would leave me. I wanted her to leave. I felt inadequate as a man. Here was my girl, mother of my children and the love of my life looking up to me as a provider; yet here was a disease I understood neither head nor tail of. I did not want her to be part of my misery. I wanted her to have a better life out there. I loved her enough to want her to be happy even if it meant being with someone else.
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MEDICAL MISCOMMUNICATION
If what you say leaves the audience more confused, then you had no business talking in the first place. If you cannot explain your formula in simple terms, hire others to do that. That is the line between delivery of speech and effective communication.
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A MANLY EXERCISE
Kenya has a wide variety of food items to choose from. However, we have a precise ability to overdo it. Goat meat for example does not need to be eaten in three helpings for it to be helpful to our bodies.
TESTICULAR CANCER AWARENESS
Just like any cancer, testicular cancer is as a result of mutation or changes of cells in the testes. Lack of sex will not cause it. Just like lack of sex will not cause back pain. Enough with the medical myths already.
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NURSING SIMPLIFIED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
United Kingdom has dissected nursing into adult nursing, paediatric nursing, midwifery and mental health nursing. Nurses graduate with a degree only in any of those fields. It has the advantage of helping nurses concentrate in their areas of expertise. It has the drawback of limiting what a nurse can do or not do.
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UPDATED DIABETES EDUCATION
It is quite unfortunate that few if any, healthcare workers are fully skilled in the current field of diabetes management. What most of us we practise in the clinical settings is what we learnt several years ago in medical and nursing schools. We need to be at par with the dynamism of diabetology.
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JUST SO WE ARE CLEAR ABOUT COVID-19 VACCINES
When I joined high school, I knew that sciences were not my strength. In form two, I gave up Physics because Mr. G.G (May he rest in peace) talked about Vanier callipers to measure the circumference of a string.
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