Rumors about covid vaccination on periods

 Rumours about covid vaccination on periods

A post has been circulating all across social media, stating that women who are menstruating or five days before and after the menstrual cycle shouldn't get the Covid-19 vaccination. It is unreasonable to say that it can affect menstruation. Just as we deserve to know if we might get a sore arm, fever, or fatigue after the vaccine, menstruators deserve to know if there is any likelihood of menstrual changes. This is especially true for folks with endomenorrhagia, etc. it has been declared that on May 1st, those above the age of 18 will be eligible to take the vaccine, Already new rumours are suggesting that vaccines are unsafe for females on their periods.

Some of the rumours are because of women sharing hoax information but there probably is something fishy to this too.

Honestly, my experience says, having junk foods, contraceptive pills, irregular lifestyles change your menstrual pattern  But the vaccine cannot. In my case, I have been vaccinated just before 1 day of my menstruation and I didn't face any symptoms. 

Estrogen can elevate immune responses, while testosterone can decrease them. At the same time, "a lot of your immune-modulating genes" can live on an "x" chromosome, which women have two of, while men have one.

"So there are all these reasons that sort of immunity, in general, goes up a little bit different in women than it does in men". "And so we're seeing women, a little more likely to report some of the side effects."

A heavier than usual period isn't a noted side-effect of any of the vaccines.

However, from what is being increasingly talked about on social media, women who get the jab could experience a heavier than usual flow. It's not a side-effect listed officially, but happening more often than anyone would have expected.

Again, while there is still a lot of research that's needed on the same, some experts believe that vaccines can kick off some immune reactions that could kill off clotting causing platelets, and some women having a bleed, or a period may tend to have it heavier. Abdominal cramps, pain may also happen. Again, it may not happen with everyone, but is a side-effect to be studied and carefully watched out for.

Some women have said that getting the vaccine changed the timing of their menstrual cycle. Some, for example, got it earlier than expected time.

Now, while vaccines DO NOT hamper or disrupt your fertility cycle in the long run, it could be a possible reaction as vaccines could 'stress' the immune system, which in turn can make your period come up sooner (or later). As experts are suggesting, it could be a temporary side effect and not something women should be worried about in the long run.

In few 2 to 3 days there is a massive viral image on social media that cautions, women, above 18 years of age to not take five days before and after their menstrual cycle as it can “affect the immunity” of a person. However, certain gynaecologists didn’t only rubbish the viral claim but added, “There is no problem if a woman takes vaccine during, after and before periods unless she is planning for a baby. Don’t withhold your vaccination because of this".

“Firstly, periods do not have any impact on the immunity of a person. You can take the vaccine even during your periods. Periods do not affect the vaccine. One should take the vaccine at the earliest. You are not supposed to delay your vaccine just because you are on your periods.”

Pre and Post Corona Vaccination Precautions

 Pre and Post Covid 19 Vaccination Precautions

Some of the things we need to know and understand about the scientifically prepared covid vaccine. Many of us are taking this on a lighter note but such misconceptions can lead to the negative impact of vaccines, so have a look at some of the precautions we need to keep in mind is for the pre and post covid vaccine period. 

More than 1.70 crore people have received a coronavirus vaccine

Dr Shashank Joshi, member of covid 19 task force, said both the vaccines being used in India,  Bharat Biotechs covaxin and Serum Institute of India’s Covishield, a version of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, are safe — and minor side-effects are expected in some cases, not just for these particular vaccines, but any other vaccine as well.

Here are some of the things we need to know, and some precautions that we should take before and after getting the vaccine.

Who can not have the vaccination and need to consult a doctor :

1.People who are allergic to the certain medicines 

2. Females who are pregnant or breastfeeding

3. The one who has tested positive for COVID-19

4. People with underlying medical conditions 

5. Children and adolescents

Before vaccination

1. If the person is having some allergies to medication or drugs, it is important to consult a medical practitioner. A complete blood count (CBC), C-reactive protein (CRP), or Immunoglobulin-E (IgE) levels should be check. 

 2. An individual should take a proper diet before going for vaccination. An empty stomach makes you feel more weak and dizzy.  One should try to be as relaxed as possible.

 3. People with diabetes, blood pressure, and cancer patients need to keep these in check.  

4. People who have received blood plasma or monoclonal antibodies as part of Covid-19 treatment.

After vaccination

1. Just after the vaccination, you will be under observation for half an hour to 1 hour. 

2. Side effects like pain at the injection site, body ache,  fever, weakness are common. There is nothing to be panic about. Some other side effects like chills and fatigue might also be expected, but these symptoms will be subsided within a few days. 

Important to Note: 

The reason for getting infected even after taking two doses of Corona vaccine is worth knowing *

A second dose is to be taken 28 days after the first dose of a corona vaccine.

After the first dose when the vaccine enters into the body, the vaccine starts making antibodies.

When antibodies are forming in our body, our immunity decreases much more than our normal immunity.

When we take another dose of vaccine after 28 days, our immunity decreases even more at that time.

Immediately after entering the body, the 2nd dose of the vaccine starts making antibody again. 

When antibodies are forming in our body after 14 days of the second dose, antibodies are fully formed in our body, then our immunity starts increasing rapidly.

During this month and a half, due to low immunity, the possibility of coronavirus entering our body is very high.

This leads to corona infection.

1.  It is very risky to go out of the house during this month and after vaccination under 14 days of vaccination

2.  Even after taking two doses of the vaccine, you can still become a victim of Corona

3. After half a month 100 to 200 times in unity power is increased in our body after that you are safe

4. There is a need to be careful and safe from the first dose to one and a half months

5. So must wear a mask

6. Avoid moving out to social places

7. Take a bath with hot water 

8. Take special care of children and the elderly this time 

9. During this period corona can affect the whole family stay alert and safe for the family sake.

Therefore, basic precautionary measures must be followed even after vaccination. Social distancing in public places, Face masks, hand hygiene must not be evacuated just because a vaccine has been taken. Cough/sneeze decency also needs to be followed.

Online examination boon or a curse ?

Online examination Boon or a Curse?

We the students are already 6 months back. (Not all the students) only Nursing students of Chhattisgarh. Just because of the corona pandemic, not only by the time, we are late in all the functional things which are incredibly important for our career.  

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If exams were held timely on nov. or dec. we would not have faced such monetary issues in life. 

Personally, I had plans of many things in life which i wanted to do post completions of my M.Sc. Nursing but all is under wait now. Honestly,  "not all do post-graduation just to gain knowledge in their life some wants to standardise their status in life". And we have ruined 6 months of our life. Not "we ruined" our so-called university. 

We did all our jobs clinical duties, assignments on time, but when it comes to exams nobody helped us. "If I can do college for clinical duties, I can also give offline exams too" with all PPE precautions. 

Examinations, tests, assignments are the words that are probably dreaded by almost every student across the world. The best way to define an examination is that it is an official test of a student’s knowledge, skill and intelligence.

Using technology as a key have closed all the colleges and schools,  However, the question is still unanswered, the online examination is boon or a curse? 

It is a boon for all the students, who are lazy, careless, who are not career-oriented,  and honestly, the one who cheats on all the exams of their life is very happy to give exams online. 

Why the online examination is a curse for students? 

 1. The exams are taken based on trust in the students, some of them succeed in adopting malpractices like cheating.

2.  Students who have done hard work for getting good marks are going to be ruined because of online examination. 

3. Online examinations are the black spot for the future of students career, lack of knowledge will directly affect their job. 

pros of offline examination:

1. The offline examination helps students to grasp the whole syllabus thoroughly, while the students diligently study that they get a true understanding of the topic.  Exams serve as a reflective process where the students can see how much real learning has happened in the exam.

2. Examinations allows the teachers to assess the effectiveness of their teaching methods by the student performances.

Online exams are becoming increasingly popular in recent times. 

1. Today, we live in the digital age, where students are more comfortable with technology and have access to devices that enable them to learn from the comfort of their homes, and this comfort will drown them so well that they won't be able to make their status by self. 

2. From easier setup to remote access, to faster evaluations, an online exam system allows schools and colleges to promote the students in keeping with their academic performance much better. 

3. College institute will get 100% result from the students and when it comes to career more difficulties will be faced by the students. 

Hence it is maybe easier for the students from other fields to give online exams but for the medical field, as they have clinical experience and completed their clinical hours wholeheartedly, they must give the exams offline with all their strength.

Do nursing students go for clinical duties without vaccination

 Do Nursing Students go for clinical duty without covid 19 vaccination?

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Vaccination is very important for frontline employees. As per the Indian government had stated that every individual hospital faculty should propel for having a vaccination.

As everyone is having the corona vaccination in the hospital like doctors, nurses and sanitary workers because they come in the direct exposure of patients. nursing students should also get vaccinated, as They receive all the vaccines in the previous years like hepatitis B. 

Criteria of the Indian government is that the student's nurses should also get the vaccination before going for clinical duties. 

As we completed one-year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the long anticipate vaccine is officially ready for distribution in India and started distributing to various health sectors. This record-breaking advancement in medicine has been the ray of hope. Even with these limitations, the first round of vaccinations is still not enough. Students in health care professions such as medical and nursing students have been included in the discussion to be amongst the group to receive the vaccine first. However,  A big question arises that, with limited resources, Should health care students be among the health care workers who receive the first batch of the COVID-19 vaccine?

“I’d rather not have my rights taken away like that"

The rights of the nursing student are talking about is whether or not to get the vaccine now.

No one from the Institute of Nursing would go on camera for this story. the mandate is for the safety of patients and staff at the hospital. However, the staff are not required to get the vaccine.

“I believe in vaccines and I know that they can help,” one random student said to me “Even those who work in the COVID unit of the hospital don’t have to get it.”

According to one of the Nursing college of USA “students who choose not to take the vaccine for any reason must withdraw from the course before classes start.”

Why Student Nurses should get corona vaccines? 

It is a big NO if the college is going on without the vaccination of the students and the institute has been started their clinical duties. 

Nursing University has been said that at the time of annual exams students must not have any of corona symptoms otherwise the students may have to give the exam with the supplementary students or next year. 

If the university is not providing vaccines to the Nursing students before clinical duty. they should allow the corona positive students to write a final year exam without any further due.

It would be disastrous if the non-vaccinated student is doing clinical and they tested positive at final exam time. their whole year would be a waste. 

• Nursing students and their families are at high risk for getting the virus. No family members are allowing their children to go for clinical duties without proper precautions and corona vaccines.
•  The institute must make a separate area for the covid duty nurses who were doing duty in the covid area.
• Proper PPE (personal protective equipment) is not enough for student nurses. Because the hospital PPE stock is limited for the hospital employees only. Hence it is not possible to get PPE all the time for student Nurses. sometimes in rush, they take vitals without hand gloves. And this is the intense mistake every nurse does. 
• It is impossible to use self PPE kits because students have given lots of money to the institute for their study. They can't afford sterile PPE daily. It is better than the institute should provide proper PPE if the vaccination is not possible.

Hence, In India even though the government has been permitted to give vaccination to those who are in contact with the patients. student's nurses should be vaccinated because of the high exposure of corona patients. The university should see whether the student nurses are having vaccination or not otherwise the government should stop the clinical duties.

B.Pharma or B.Sc. Nursing ?

 What is the best opion to choose B.Pharma or B.Sc. Nursing ? 

Both have some pros and cons.. If you are making career in pharma:

Pros:

1. You can open a medical store in the future so that you can earn very well.
2. you can get a job in the big cities only if you want to earn more and more.

Cons:

1. If you really want to open a medical store, it will take a lot of time as well as you need lot of money approx 10–15 lakhs. If you have bunch of money thn you cn easliy open a medical store.
2. For government jobs they recruit few peoples only. They bag only 2 to 3 person , so it is very hard to get a government job.

If you are thinking to do B.Sc. Nursing:

Pros:

1. B.Sc. Nursing has a wide range of opportunities if you are looking for a job, just after your studies.
2. If you are career oriented, you don't need to stay in home after your graduation. you will get a job ASAP after completing graduation.

Cons:

1. If you will compare the salary of Indian Nurses and foreign Nurses, foreign nurses earns more as compare to Indian Nurses.
2. You need to do extra work and struggle. because at the starting career of Nurses they have to work in 3 shifts, & dont get time for their personal life.

Now, If you compare both professions, i will clear you one thing, if you are already rich or your parents are rich and just want to make a medical store and live life luxurious, then you can go for pharma. and if you want your life Independent by yourself, not rich as much that you can built something then you can go for B.Sc. Nursing you can also get education loan if you are not able to pay your fees.

Diet plan for covid -19 patients

 

What kind of diet plan should a covid-19 patient follow if they are advised home quarantined?

Diet plan is all depend on your age and immunity, If you are below 25 years of age you recover by your own, By taking good diet. And for more than 60 years of age people have to take care of them self by their own as well as psychological support of family is very important, protect yourself by using mask, hand gloves and other PPE (personal protective equipment's). Precautions we use for common cold is the only treatment you have to use for covid 19 too. Covid 19 is not a big problem as we are facing common cold flue since our childhood and parents provide us steam inhalation, hot water, kadha’s and all. This must be the greatest things which you can use it daily. For me as a medical field student, as i saw in the hospitals that they are just looting common peoples, moreover Rich peoples are getting more positive results in covid 19 instead of poor or average ones.

A part from this, I would suggest you for covid 19 the most usable technique which we Indian usually does according to Ayurveda and said by our grand parents.

1. Have 3 times steam inhalation this will allow your mucous thin and not make it stagnant in your lungs.

2. Regularly use hot water to drink, as we can see it is winter and more susceptible to common cold.

3. Have a kadha instead of having milk tea or coffee. The preparation of kadha can be done by: take a tea pan add 2 glass of water start boiling it, now add 4 black pepper, 2 cloves, 0.5cm cinnamon stick, half teaspoon carrom seeds, half teaspoon fennel seeds, 1 full teaspoon honey, 1cm grated ginger, 4cm red jaggery, 6–8 tulsi leaf. Now boil the whole thing and make it half cup, and have it 2 or 1 times a day. don't have this kadha more than 2 times it may cause liver damage.

4. In the morning, you can have your breakfast with common food you have like upma, pohe, oats whatever you eat, there is no restrictions in food, just keep in mind, donot consume refrigerated food as it directly affect your lungs, have meal that is freshly prepared & cooked in the gas as soon as possible. If we think scientifically, when the food is ready, we should have meal within 3 hours of the cooking process. “Make fresh food and eat fresh food”

5. Try to have “sattvic food” these foods have more nutrients as compare to other food. Skip rice, white sugar, cold drinks, Maida foods from your diet. If you are a sweet lover than you can use jaggery or brown sugar instead of white sugar.

6. Add vitamin C rich foods in your diet i.e. lemon, tomatoes, green leafy foods (Spinach) etc. or else you can take vitamin C tablets. Avoid packed foods like (mixture, bread, chips, biscuits).

FUTURE OF STUDENTS NURSES WITHOUT GADGETS

Future of  Student Nurses without Gadgets

The Future of  Nursing the way nurses are changing is the way nursing is, we hear a lots of stuff like, holistic care, so its not just looking for the patient, its sort of looking at them as a person and everything that encompasses that person. Its an exciting  its constantly progressing as well as, its constantly evolving. Nowadays, Students are getting involved in several gadgetic things because of the pressure of studies as well as not completing the course, They are continuously using social media to solve any problems regarding their studies or future. It is very well said that in 2020 it is very necessary to upgrade ourself by using smartphones and different gadgets for new information's and news. But if i talk about the Nursing information, Nursing knowledge students got adapt to use phones instead of Books for  any doubts, which can be the habit or may got  an addiction.

Students are picking phone for using learning the small topic instead of choosing books, As we all know that the best learner is the only one who chooses book contents rather than google information, because sometimes it goes in a wrong way. Although students can also choose books and google information too, The combination of both will be the strength of your answers. But using only google contents can be a curse.   

Without smart phone and  to spend a bit more time without it. Besides for feeling slightly isolated, its not too bad. I’ve been doing this thing that I know I would not be doing if my phone was sitting next to me, shiny screen beckoning. According to some Researchers, On average people check their phones 34 times a day, sometimes with only 10 minutes a break between checks. 94% peoples felt panicked if they lost their phone, specially in young adults and some feels “desperate” .

Honestly, when my phone died while I was working my research work, I definitely felt the faint flutter and panic. I continuously trying to open my phone when it got hanged, and returned an hour later to a blank screen, I would say there was an element of desperation as I stabbed violently at the home button And power button, Thinking about my beloved apps like FB where I use to share MEMES, WhatsApp texts and important notifications which I missed from my friends. But actually its a boon to have time for yourself as well as you can make schedules to study reliably, Its is a fact that 15% of the content  related to medical information is wrong .Students are now using google as a medicine book, They use  browsers and several sites online for taking any pills without showing to the doctors which may harm your health. It is very important to take prescription of any drugs you are using, and not using self-practices. Not only about the medicines, it about using the browser for studies. We Nurses studies various Normal values, Ranges of HB, BUN etc. In different sites you got different results, But if you study from the books you will get one result and that is for sure helped you for your exam.

   I realized,  once and for all how everyone is reliant towards the phone. In a way, I could never truly be present regardless of what I was doing, because of the fact that the whole world is in my pocket all the times. Each day starts the same-Rubbing my eyes to the pings while still on bed, Took me sometimes to actually take in the fact -It was just a damned phone a THING, “not a person” and that I should accept it now.. Life has become very dependent on the cellular phone, people can’t go out of home without it, and if they forget it at home, they feel as if they have left some important part of themselves at home.

It is true to say that the smart phones has turned in to an extension of the human body.

Young people can hardly imagine how the world before the smart phones was. This small instrument has become such an integral part of their lives and they cannot imagine life without it. Actually people of all ages cannot spend time without it.

It hits upon me- the cruel truth of the viral Pandemic- the “Internet mesh work; that had led me to forget pending enough time with myself !

Future of nurses are in the hands of authors who have written several books for us, not in the hands of browser application, we may get lots of problems by using continuously using smartphone in our daily  life which distract us, causes disorders of eye, as well as shrink our capability of understanding the problems.

How was life before the age of the smart phone ?

Wasn’t it, Entertaining.. People lived and existed.. They were more aware of what was happening around them, unlike people today, who divide their attention  between the screen of the phone and the world around them. I don’t say that phone is not important in our life, use it.. entertain yourself, but do not forget your prior things, and the most important thing is TIME. Give value to the time because TIME IS PRECIOUS, Now a days nobody is punctual, nobody is on time, being punctual doesn’t make you principalistic, In fact having principles in your life is a boon.

Do's and Don'ts of Nursing Research study in pandemic for B.Sc. and M.Sc. Nursing Students

Do's and Don'ts while doing Nursing Research in pandemic for B.Sc. and M.Sc. Nursing Students.

Covid-19 is just interfering our educational life that is the students who are under graduation and doing post graduation, as we all know that we the nursing students (MSc nursing) there is an important role of Nursing research and Statistics drastically changing our educational life.

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In our Masters degree we need to fulfill our academic requirements like nursing Research projects, that is very important for our internal marks as well as our theory marks because without research thesis we won't be able to get clear the degree over M.Sc. Nursing. 

As we are living in pandemic, we need to keep following points in our mind so that we do not do any of the mistakes which I had done in my Research. 

Our college and schools are closed, we cannot reach the goals as we had decided  before the pandemic, we need to do lots of alterations in our study because we won't be able to go far for our studies, we need to do our whole project from our home only. 

Do's for Nursing research:

1. If your study is in a remote area:

(a) On cannot go and do the data collection in the pandemics, and it is absolutely frustrating, so it is far better option to learn about zoom, skype and hangout,  to make your studies easier and do properly your data collection 

(b) keep your laptop, web cams safer and do your research calmly, cause there are certain ideas to do the research in remote areas as there is not having lack of technologies. 

2. Important to modify your study

(a) If your problem statement is related to hospital and having an Experimental study. Its better not to do the study in any hospital because it is dangerous to do in the pandemic. 

If you have an experimental study you can also modify it into a descriptive study so that you will be safe and your sample and the hospital staff will also feels safe, do the further study by different technologies for example mobile phones, different types of applications etc. 

3. Make your participants to feel safe during this pandemic 

(a) As everybody is terrified from this covid 19 you need to make your participant as possible as safer as you can.

(b) Do all the research data collection by using technologies to protect your participants as well as yourself.

4. Keep communicating with your Nursing research team

If possible keep communicating with eachother so that there will no doubts regarding any stuffs, make yourself clear with the goals. 

5. Help your friends and colleagues 

Support your friends and colleagues to do the research work,clear their doubts. 

6. While doing data collection 

Try to make the data collection clear and precise so that the participants able to look after it and easily understood the data collection can be E-mailed and can be send through WhatsApps, telegram or simple (phone message) and also there are various applications through which we can do our data collection for example Google form, form filler, forms.app etc, these applications also shows the correct number of frequency and percentages and suitable graphs by their own. 

So, it can be easily record the whole collection without any problems. 

Don'ts while doing Nursing Research:

1. Donot add fake frequencies which shows great consequences at the time of checking-in the study. Bias will be created and your all research will be wasted.

2.  Try to do whole research evaluation in excel do that you won't have any doubt regarding the numbers you get in the data collection. 

3. Dont forget to apply various strategies which are made for the Research statistical  work such as Adamsoft, ADMB, Chromux, JASP.

4. Don't forget to ask any doubts to your guide in each and every steps.

5. Make your references correct, donot forget to add reference numbers which shows that your matter is valid. if you won't, it is difficult to make your whole reference. 

6. Donot copy the data of others that also make your study bias.

7. Donot make your samples to the hospital staffs in pandemic which may interfere there professional life. 

 

Why Teach-Back method is essential in Nursing profession ?

Teach-Back method !

What is Teach back method ? 

and why it is important? 

not only in the Nursing Profession it is also important in other fields. Teach-back method is also known as "show me" method it is a process of confirmation of the topic which have already discussed and explained to the patient by nurses.

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Teach-back method in nurses and patient are the the clarity of conversation between both.

It is a method which shows that how much the patient understand the process which is explained by nurses and the nurses make patient to explain them in their own words that how much they understood.

It is a process which is used in the medical field to ensure that the medicines or other techniques which are explained by nurses are clearly understood by the patients and their relatives.

 What are the  Importance of Teach-back method for Nurses ?

Teach back method is important for the nurses as well as the patients to check whether the topic is clear or not.

It is a technique of a clear communication between the nurses and patient.

To recheck the following instructions which you have given to the patient.

It is also helpful in the demonstration class where the teacher teach the  Nursing students and asking them to demonstrate in the dummy verbally explaining it same as the teacher taught. 

How the Nurses can use Teach-back method in Hospital ?

In each and every Hospital, The nurses should ask the patients after explaining the procedure that,

 "have you understood what I have dealt with"

 Instead of saying this the nurses should ask the patient that 

"can you explain in your own words whatever you understood."

With this technique the nurses will be a assured that the patient understood everything and there is no doubt in the patients mind.

Nurses should not ask the client to reply "yes or no". Nurses should allow the patient to explain the information in in open ended and closed ended form. so that the patient can easily explain you. 

Nurses should explain each and everything in a simple language so that patient will easily understood and Explain it easily to the nurse. for example: The nurses should use Non-medical words instead of  using Medical words, so that  patient will easily understand.

How Nurses do Communicate while Teach-Back ?

Nurses should always speak in a clear and precise word which is is easily understood by the patient and their family.

Nurses can also use diagrams to make more clear the topic.

Without maintaining interpersonal relationship with the patient it is not possible to allow the teach-back process with the patient so it is necessary to make or maintain the IPR with patient.

When the nurses talking with the older patients, always talk in a low pitch voice. and when talking with the children's should always use some phrases, Diagrams or videos.

Watch for the body posture at the time when the patient is explaining each and everything to the nurse. because body posture shows the confidence that how much the patient uderstand about it.

When a nurse should use Teach- Back ?

Usually teach-back is used in New diagnosis of the patient and when the nurses give any medication to the patient to explain it thoroughly.

What to do when  patient is not able to teach back ? 

If the patient is not able to teach-back the nurses should repeat the information and take help from their colleagues or from their family/relatives to teach them properly.