Posted on: Mon 14-03-2022

NUNSA-NANSNM meeting with NMCN BOARD MEMBERS.

The meeting started around 10:20am on Wednesday 9th March, 2022 with an opening prayer from Mrs. Stella the Special Adviser to the registrar. NUNSA President introduced the NUNSA-NANSNM JOINT COMMITTEE and went ahead to present the agenda for the visit.

1.      Inclusion of student leaders in decision making

2.      Recommendation of Outstanding students

3.      Institutions yet to commence internship program for nurses

4.      Intern licence extension to two years

5.      The Canceled OSCE result

On the issue of inclusion of student leaders the registrar stated that all correspondence from the council will get to them and also stated that the leaders are always welcome to the council for enquiry and clarification on issues.

Recommendations of outstanding student The registrar stated that special recognition have always been given to best graduating students and first class candidates during induction ceremony but the issue of scholarship to them may not be feasible as there are above 200 institutions in the country offering Nursing and the council won't be able to provide such for such a large number and won't be fair to give some and not give others he went ahead to encourage institutions and Faculty/Dept. of Nursing science to put more efforts in encouraging their outstanding students and job should be made available for them in their various institutions

Institutions yet to commence internship program NUNSA National president discussed extensively on the issue of internship and the effects on students she spoke about the institutions yet to commence internship program and the hardship on new nurses, citing University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital as an example and also went ahead to state that the council have given the approval to commence the program since 2020 but the institution is yet to do so. The registrar talked about working with head of dept and DNS of teaching hospital to see that the program is started and assured us that automatic approval will be given to institutions yet to commence the program he went ahead to advise on applying to some private institutions offering internship program. On the issue of extending Internship license to two years he explained that some members now go to internship more than once thereby preventing others the chance of getting a placement he discussed about the increasing number of internship and the budget of about 13billion for a year. He encourage those who are unable to get a placement within a year to apply for renewal of the licence and that the processing takes about 48hours only.

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