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Are you a critical thinker or Writer?
Critical thinking is a skill so important for nurses to learn, yet not an easy one to master.
Much focus in the literature is on assessing or measuring a student’s or nurse’s critical thinking ability.
How, as that student or nurse, can you improve your critical thinking skills?
Scheffer and Rubenfield describe critical thinking in nursing as being comprised of 11 affective components (perseverance, open-mindedness, flexibility, confidence, creativity, inquisitiveness, reflection, intellectual integrity, intuition, contextual, and perspective) and 7 cognitive skills (information seeking, discriminating, analysing, transforming knowledge, predicting, applying standards, and logical reasoning).
- Thinking about these components brings to mind the following advice for fine-tuning your own critical thinking:
• Be assured that critical thinking will come with experience.
• Be open to new learning situations and seek them out when you are able.
• Be flexible. Floating to a new unit, changing shifts, or working with a different preceptor might not be all bad!
• Be confident, but not afraid to admit when there is something you don’t know. Ask questions!
• Don’t ignore your “inner voice.” Nursing intuition is a true phenomenon.
• Learn from your mistakes and those of others.
• When overwhelmed, take a moment to pause and think through a situation.
• After a code or any critical event, take some time to think about how the pieces of the puzzle fit together.
• Was there something else that you could have done or something that you could have done differently?
• Practice your skills! Your confidence will improve, and you will be able to recognise issues.
• Learn your service policies and procedures (and know where to find them!)
• Talk with other nurses and colleagues from other disciplines.
• Plan care together and discuss assessments, problems, interventions, and evaluations. Communication is key! Give time considerations to catch-up with your existential reality.
• Plan ahead and think of potential consequences of your actions. E.g. Giving a diuretic? You might want to check your patient’s potassium. - Would you like to share your experience to save lives? Submit your story get in booklet.
- Reference: Scheffer and Rubenfield’s article was referenced in Nursing Student Stories on Learning How to Think Like a Nurse, a great read (and FREE!) from Nurse Educator.
- DiVito-Thomas P. Nursing Student Stories on Learning How to Think Like a Nurse. Nurs Educ. 2005;30(3):133-136.
- Scheffer BK, Rubenfield MG. A consensus statement on critical thinking in nursing. J Nurs Educ. 2000;39(8):352-359.
General Hospitals in Lagos
Compiled by Olaide Waheed
General hospitals in Nigeria is considered to be the second-tier health institution in Nigeria and it is owned and overseen by the state government. Every state in Nigeria established a general hospital in almost all of its local governments to attend to patients in those environments. Nonetheless, our focus is on Lagos state where we have compiled a full list of General Hospitals in Lagos.
Lagos state also has its fair share of general hospitals established in the different areas across its 37 local government areas. Possibly you reside in this state and you do not know where to locate a general hospital, we have come to your aid having compiled the List of General Hospitals in Lagos which you can read below.
Name and Addresses of General Hospitals in Lagos
• Lagos General Hospital
Address: No. 1 – 3 Broad Street, Odan, Lagos state
• Ajeromi General Hospital, Ajegunle
Address: 6 Cardoso Street, Ajegunle, Ajeromi-Ifelodun, Lagos state
• Lagos State General Hospital Mushin
Address: No. 48 Olayide, Mushin, Lagos, Nigeria
• Isolo General Hospital
Address: No. 120 Mushin Road, Isolo Way Isolo, Lagos state
• Orile Agege General Hospital
Address: No. 3 Old Ota Road, Orile Agege, Lagos state
• General Hospital Odan
Address: General Hospital Odan Broad Street, Lagos Island, Lagos state
• Epe General Hospital
Address: Hospital Road, Epe Local government area, Lagos state
• Ikorodu General Hospital
Address: TOS Benson Road, Ikorodu, Lagos state
• Gbagada General Hospital
Address: No. 1 Hospital Road, Araromi Gbagada, Lagos state
• Randle General Hospital
Address: No. 68 Randle Avenue, Surulere, Lagos state
• Alimosho General Hospital
Address: Alimosho General Hospital, Off Lasu Isheri Expressway, General Bus Stop, Igando, Lagos State
• Ifako General Hospital
Address: No. 14 College Road, Ifako-Ijaiye Abule Aja, Lagos state
• Ibeju Lekki General Hospital, Akodo
Address: 4-6, Lagos Rd., Magbon Alade, Akodo, Ibeju – Lekki Lagos state
• Badagry General Hospital
Address: Hospital Rd, Badagry, Lagos state
• Isalu Hospitals
Address: No. 349b Odusami Street, off Wemco Rd, Ogba, Ikeja
• Somolu General Hospital
Address: Plot 39 Durosinmi Street, Somolu, Lagos Nigeria.
List of General Hospitals in Lagos
• Lagos General Hospital
Address: No. 1 – 3 Broad Street, Odan, Lagos state
• Ajeromi General Hospital, Ajegunle
Address: 6 Cardoso Street, Ajegunle, Ajeromi-Ifelodun, Lagos state
• Ajeromi General Hospital, Ajegunle Lagos State General Hospital Mushin
Address: No. 48 Olayide, Mushin, Lagos, Nigeria
o Lagos State General Hospital Mushin
o Isolo General Hospital
o Orile Agege General Hospital
o General Hospital Odan
o Epe General Hospital
o Ikorodu General Hospital
o Gbagada General Hospital
o Randle General Hospital
o Alimosho General Hospital
o Ifako General Hospital
o Ibeju Lekki General Hospital, Akodo
o Badagry General Hospital
o Isalu Hospitals
o Somolu General Hospital
There you have the complete list of General Hospitals in Lagos state that attends to the vast population in the state. More so, to the best of the state government’s ability, all of these hospitals are well equipped with advanced technologies as well as trained professionals that will tend to the sick in the state.
General hospitals are established in different locations across Lagos state to provide quality health care services to the residents of Lagos state and its environs in all areas of health care delivery such as medical, child and maternal health, nursing care, surgical, dental care, and many more.
This implies that you can visit any of these general hospitals at any time for checkups or get treatment, seek medical advice and counsel from consultants, and you can also get drugs and medication prescribed by the physician who is a certified practitioner, among other services you can enjoy in the hospital.
Services Rendered in General Hospital Lagos state
General hospitals in Lagos state offers comprehensive and diverse healthcare services similar to the “University Teaching Hospitals” and the “Federal Medical Centres”. Among the services rendered in all the general hospitals in Lagos state includes Dental service, Laboratory service, Medicine service, Mortuary service, Obstetrics, and Gynaecology service, Ophthalmology service, Paediatrics service, Radiology, and Surgical service.
Professionals Working in General Hospitals, Lagos State
Having seen the vast services rendered in all of the general hospitals in Lagos state, these services are performed by the various professionals which comprise medical, para-medical, and non-medical professionals.
As such those working in most general hospitals Lagos state including dentists, Laboratory Scientists, Doctors, Mortuary attendants, gynaecologists, ophthalmologists, paediatricians, radiologists, nurses, pharmacists, Health Information Manager, Administrative Staff, and cleaners.
Conclusion
Just as every other state in Nigeria has general hospitals located in strategic areas across the state so does Lagos state. From the List of General Hospitals in Lagos above, you should have by now be acquainted with the hospitals as well as their location. So, waste no time to visit the general hospital that is nearest to you and get the necessary treatment that you need as quickly as possible when necessary.
