The
Chairman and entire members,
Governing
Council/Boards of the
Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria
(NMCN)
Madams/Sirs,
CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR
DESERVED APPOINTMENT: TIME FOR PARADIGMATIC PROGRESSIVENESS
The
evaluation of the caliber of progressive personalities that make up the
recently constituted Governing Council/Boards of the Nursing and Midwifery
Council of Nigeria (NMCN) left us in such blissful awe that we tagged it – a
welcome development.
2. The
task ahead is monumental and expectations are very high of you.
3. A
team of 21 members with up to 10 Ph.D holders is expected to perform far above
the pass mark.
4. The
problem of nursing in Nigeria has never been deficiency of laudable ideas but
seeming absence of commitment as well as dearth of altruistic sacrifices to
fire the ideas into reality.
5. Because
of our apparent latch onto mediocrity, we have abstractly ceded our core duties
to the CHEWS in the Primary Health Centres and have been pushed away from our classic
duties – such as IV therapy, Catheterization, Passage of NG-tube, antenatal
examination and conduct of delivery – by the physicians in the Secondary and
Tertiary Health institutions.
7. NMCN
has consciously promoted mediocrity by abolishing categorization and
differentiation in its register – promoting the mediocre syndrome of “a nurse
is a nurse” that has snailed the rate of our professional growth and
development.
8. The
council has deliberately refused to have a separate register for different
categories of Nurses such as those having RN/RM, Bachelors’ degree, Masters’
degree and Ph.D in nursing ostensibly to maintain the frustrating conservatism
that advancement to the top has to strictly follow seniority by length of
service to the exclusion of higher education and efficiency of performance.
9. Motivation
that comes with recognition of educational and professional excellence is
seriously gasping for air in nursing. This has seriously eroded the quest to go
all the miles in advancing professional skills, capacities and competences
beyond that needful for basic nursing duties.
11. We can borrow a leaf, today, from the Teachers Registration Council that shunned the mediocre syndrome of “a teacher is a teacher” to maintains separate register for different categories of Teachers from NCE up to Ph.D, and thus stimulates healthy competition, growth and development through recognition of achievements and performances.
12. Your tenure should make a paradigm shift
from the current “mediocrity- promoting status quo”, to give us a separate
register for different categories of nurses which will in turn pave way for
trickling down of the rewards that are attendant with higher education and
professional excellence to nursing.
13. We shall certainly reclaim our positions
and classic duties from the CHEWS and physicians the day we say no to
mediocrity!
14. It is quite understandable that opposition to
radical, redemptive approaches to nursing problems has been swift, formidable
and subtle, but we cannot afford to continue to allow the merchants of
mediocrity to hold us all and our posterity to ransom for fear of what may be
lost if the boat is rocked.
.
15. We have a radiating hope that your
combination with the astute leadership we have in the person of the current
Registrar of the council shall drive us miles away from the current odious
layer of mediocrity.
Signed:
Chief (Hon) S.E.O.
Egwuenu
Nurse G.I. Nshi
National President National Secretary
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