A registered nurse currently working in Federal Medical Center Umuahia, Nigeria, Nurse Jwakshak Kopyol Lot believes that the government should focus on how to tackle the challenges to help improve health care delivery most especially in the fight against Covid and other illnesses.

Q: What is your specialty and where are you based? 

A: I'm a registered Nurse with lots of experience in addiction treatment. Currently working with Federal Medical Center Umuahia, Abia State Nigeria. Under MDR-TB Unit

Jwakshak Kopyol Lot RN

Q: What would you say is the single biggest challenge nurses face today?

A: Challenges Nurses face are many but can basically be categories into five.

1) Staffing. Short-staffing in hospital settings is a top concern for nurses.

2) Long working hours. To help make up for staffing shortages, nurses are often required to work long shifts.

3) Workplace hazards.

4) Workplace violence.

Bullying and harassment.

5) Improving Self-care.

It's therefore important to focus on how to tackle the challenges to help improve health care delivery most especially in the fight against Covid and other illnesses.

On this note, we the health care providers ought to focus on how to improve our individual self-care in order to avoid breakdown.