Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria is currently training about 70 nurses in Abuja on the Revised General Nursing and Midwifery curricula to meet up with global practice in the medical profession.
Addressing Journalists at the training workshop in Abuja on Tuesday, Dr Faruk Umar Abubakar, Secretary General /Registrar Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria, said the curricula review was aimed at producing “qualified, competent professional nurses for the wellbeing of Nigerians.”
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Abubakar disclosed that not less than 17, 000 nurses and midwifes have been trained in the last five years and called on nurses in Nigeria to take the training as a challenge and use it to provide uniform services to “our healthcare system at all levels, both tertiary, secondary and primary level.”
The Secretary General said the annual training with the theme ‘Achieving Excellence in Nursing and Midwifery through curriculum Innovation and Implementation,” was also part of the mandate of the council to update “the document and to be able to mobilize, that is why our products are always in line with global trends, and am proud to say that nurses trained in Nigeria can be compared to anyone in any part of the world.”
On her part, Dr Bola Ofi, Acting Head of Department School of Nursing, Lagos state University College of Medicine, Ikeja, explained that the new reversed curriculum being implemented , was likely to attract more people from diaspora not only in Nigeria, saying “It will also motivate people that have left to return home and add their experiences to what is happening with the curricula.
