UGONSA

UGONSA WRITES NMCN, REGISTRAR, CALL FOR URGENT ACTION TO TAUNT THE RECRUITMENT OF AUXILIARY NURSES BY KENULE BEESON SARO-WIWA POLYTECHNIC, RIVERS STATE.

In our determination to enforce the anti-quackery policy of the NMCN to eradicate from the profession any form of half-bake personel, the association has taken the bull by the horn by calling the attention of the Council on an unguided action of Kenule Beeson Saro-wiwa Polytechnic, Rivers State. The letter reads;

Nightingale’s greetings from the national leadership of the University Graduates of Nursing Science Association (UGONSA), a Professional association of nurses with a minimum academic qualification of first degree in nursing science, to you and all the board members of NMCN.

2.      We write to draw the attention of the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN) to an advertisement placement from the Office of the Registrar, Kenule Beeson Saro-wiwa Polytechnic, P.M.B. 20, Bori, Rivers State, which was signed by the Registrar/Secretary of Council of the said Institution, Dr. Emmanuel Onwuka, where approval was given to the institution from the Rivers State Government for recruitment of both Teaching and Non-teaching staff for the institution. In the said advertisement, in its section “B. NON-TEACHING POSITIONS", (see attached annexure), a provision was made for the recruitment of "Auxiliary Nurses", which in a full sense of it, is inimical to the professional development of nursing and an obtuse mockery of the anti-quackery policy of the NMCN.

3.      Sir, if such an act from a critical institution of higher learning aimed at promoting quackery in a noble profession like Nursing is allowed to thrive, it will make an indelible negative dent in the public image of our dear nursing profession.

4.      It is in the light of above that we write for the Council to take an urgent, decisive action to nip such a misguided action of the institution in the bud.

5.      To the best of our knowledge, there is no known approval for "Auxiliary Nursing" by the NMCN or any regulatory body or commission saddled with the responsibility of Registering or licensing such category of personnel in the nursing profession and the Nigerian health system in general. It is incomprehensible how the institution singled out nursing to bastardize without extending such to other healthcare disciplines as they did not call for the recruitment of "Auxiliary Doctors", "Auxiliary Pharmacists", "Auxiliary Lab Scientists", etc., as they egregiously did to nursing.

6.      UGONSA believes strongly in the determination of the NMCN to promote Excellence in Nursing Education and Practice and in your capacity to address the above issue in the best interest of the Nursing Profession.

7.      Thank you.

Signed

                                                                   

Nurse Ojo, Opeyemi I.                                                         Nurse Philip O. Eteng

   National President                                                                    National Secretary