The Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria has announced a massive restructing for post basic nursing clinical specialty into post graduate programs for the award of academic certificates
The Registrar of the council Alh Faruk Umar Abubakar made this diclosure in a memo by the council N&MCN/EDU/CIR/44/VOL.1.43 dated 11th February 2019.
According to the registrar, this educational reform was geared towards ensuring the graduates of these programs are being awarded commensurate academic certificates and will pave way for career progression in line with the conventional system of education in Nigeria as well as promote satisfaction among the professionals
The MEMO is attached here and the blue print and time line published below:
1. All current Hospital Based Post Basic Nursing Specialty Programmes should be affiliated to or assimilated into their Parent Universities and be operated either as Post Graduate Diploma or Masters programmes in Nursing Specialties.
2. Each Teaching Hospital in conjunction with their University should consider their areas of strength and decide on which Post Graduate Programmes in clinical Nursing Specialty to take up.
3. Each Post Graduate Clinical Nursing Specialty Programme shall be operated by the Department/ Faculty of Nursing in conjunction with the Teaching Hospital in line with the guidelines of Post Graduate School of the University as approved by the National Universities Commission (NUC).
4. Graduates of the B.Sc/B.Nsc. from a recognized department/ faculty of Nursing with good grades shall be eligible to proceed for Masters in any specialty of choice, while those with lower grade shall go for PGDN before proceeding for Masters in Nursing.
5. Successful graduates of the Higher National Diploma (HND) Nursing Programme shall be eligible to go for Post Graduate Diploma in any Clinical Nursing Specialty of choice.
6. Irrespective of the year of graduation, the basic entry requirement shall remain five o' level credits in English, Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics and Biology at not more than two sittings.
7. The Management of Teaching Hospitals currently running Post Basic Clinical Nursing Programmes should release and sponsor some of the academic staff for Masters and PhD in Nursing in specialty areas they wish to run in order to strengthen the manpower needs for running these programme.
8. The Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria in collaboration with NUC, departments/faculties of Nursing and some Coordinators are working on the minimum Benchmark/ Academic standard for the various Post Graduate Programmmes in a variety of specialty areas. These shall be made available to the institutions in due course.
9. From the year 2023, that is five (5) years from now, the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria shall cease to register and licence graduates from any institution running Post Basic Clinical Nursing Programme that have not been reorganized in line with the Council's requirements as enunciated above.
The Council hereby appeals to all Proprietors of Post Basic Nursing Specialty Programmes to engage with their parent Universities and work out modalities for a smooth transition and reform into the new structure.
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