This piece is written in commemoration with Nurses globally for their efforts towards nursing our mother Earth to health and also in remembrance of our "Lady with the Lamp" Florence Nightingale whose revolutionary efforts brought Nursing to global limelight with estimated 20.3millions as Registered Professional members and more than 7.3billion people as their beneficiaries excluding those in the grave beyond where our FNG dwells too.
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Published 10 May 2021
Globally, training for registered nurses is done either in an educational institution with inputs from ministry of health, and the regulatory body which is the nursing council. The training is in keeping with international policy on nurse education set by the International Council for Nurses (ICN).
At the beginning of the 20th century, precisely in 1901, the ICN proposed that nurse training be carried out in the universities to equip nurses with clinical and leadership skills to manage health challenges nationally and globally.
Changing healthcare landscape especially since the beginning of the 21st Century led the World Health Organization (WHO) to advice institutions to train nurses that are well equipped to provide leadership in light of current health realities.
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THE University of Ibadan (UI) has inducted 44 new nurses into the Nigerian health workforce with a charge that they should be good ambassadors of the university and contribute to national health care development.
University of Ibadan’s acting vice-chancellor, Professor Adebola Ekanola, speaking at the induction ceremony for the university’s Bachelor of Nursing Science graduates said this new phase of life demands that they put into use their experience of the past, hard work, will and determination to ensure they excel in the profession.
Professor Ekanola, speaking through the provost, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Professor Olayinka Omigbodun, said the department would transform into a faculty soon and urged the new nurses to work in synergy with other members of the health team in delivering care to Nigerians.