INTRODUCTION

Many of you may be wondering what this blog is all about. I will start with introduction am a finalist nursing student at the university. Many say NURSING is a CALLING(same as a leader), i cannot agree less, for one to be a nurse one has to be dedicated to give care through empathy and perfom what the client would have perfomed if they were alright. another thing that should go into our minds is that NURSING is also a PROFESSION where there is specialised, intense training and practice, also NURSING is a SCIENCE meaning that the procedures the nurses do are scientifically done. NURSING is also an ART whereby the procedures are done in a certain creative way.Nursing in general has made me appreciate several things in life to mention but a few in my clinical rotations I've been faced with various situation or witnessed different scenarios that makes me ask myself who is a Kenyan nurse, what exactly is expected of a Kenyan nurse, what are our responsibilities as nurses. I have been to various health institutions and witnessed the change in roles i.e. what responsibilities belong to the nurse. I would love to enable our clients understand our limits and for them to understand who exactly is a nurse, compare what the law requires of a nurse with what the law requires of a nurse in other countries. Another thing that has been puzzling me is the different approaches many nurses have to use to manage their clients in relation to ethics i.e with respect to teleologic and deantologic considerations. This will incorporate several nursing ways of management of various medical conditions especially the ones most common in our setting and also the bizarre conditions that are more fatal when they occur. I will also include the other fields in the health institution especially where multidisciplinary approach to care is mandatory. The blog will also have tales from the nurses outside the hospitals, the stressors, basically what a normal Kenyan nurse goes through because what many people fail to undersatand is that a nurse is a human being, a parent, a breadwinner and your care giver and will be the one who ensures your rights in the hospitals are not violated

In this blog their will be stories e-mailed to me via kenya.nurse.blog@gmail.com, which I will carefully select the ones of relevance to my objectives of starting this blog. personally i expect the blog to grow faster especially after am done with college and getting the hands on experience since views will change as i encounter many if not all of the conditions. Basically or in summary i want us to know who is a nurse, challenges they face, what they do and what they don't do and many more like what nursing care is all about. feel free to to e-mail me any query via kenya.nurse.blog@gmail.com.