1. Individuals nurse:
the nurses at all level should rise to face the challenges. A tree
cannot make a thick forest. Positive good majority creates an impact when we
speak with one voice. Let us call a spade a spade. We have a problem, cry out
any where you are, bring positive ideas, read more, join the trend of things
etc
2. Professional association like nursing and midwifery
council of Nigeria, national association of Nigerian nurses and midwives
(N&MCN, NANNM) should understand that nursing have a
serious problem to
tackle. Other countries of the world
have overcome theirs. Ours should not be exception let them work together and
defend our courses. This can be done through the following ways: lobbing, politics,
mass media etc.
3. Nurses are known as advocate of peace and progress
even from patient bed side, let us apply same in nursing to develop nursing as
profession.
4. The schools of nursing universities offering nursing
as a course should try to add it in their curriculum to ensure that the
students have the orientation about the challenges; this ensure adequate preparation of the future colleagues to participates
actively to face the challenges.
5. Involving international agencies and non governmental
organizations to grant successor to us. Their support will go a long way to
assist us to overcome the challenges.
6. Implementation of the recent internship policy in
nursing will as well boast our ego of a step to overcome our long deserved
objective.
7. The existing
department of nursing in our universities should be converted to faculty of nursing sciences
and our B.SC should be revoked to Dr in nursing because it is the same process,
the medical students went is what we as well pass through, I may
say nursing is more intensive compared to medical courses. Again
existing school of nursing should be upgraded. Moreover, all the various
specialty schools eg midwifery, anesthesiology, cardiothoracic, ophthalmology
etc should be upgraded to be specialty in masters programme
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