Tag Archives: Nurses

Nurses are healthcare professionals.

Patient-Centred Care

Whatever happened to patient-centred care? The NHS has gone to great lengths to inform the world that the patient is at the centre of everything they do including the decision-making process. In other words they don’t do anything without the knowledge or permission of the patient. Yet my experience was altogether different. My concerns were completely ignored.

What Caused the Stroke

Showing dead right arm and walking with quad stick.

You will find the real cause of the stroke quite shocking. Most people think that high blood pressure leads to strokes and many people take medication to lower it. After all, high blood pressure (hypertension) is known as the silent killer (Secondscount, 2013). In an effort to lower my blood pressure I was put on amlodipine and ramipril and I had a stroke-in-progression.