The Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) has suspended its industrial action in principle. The suspension follows a conciliation meeting between its leadership and the representatives of the Federal Government in Abuja Today. The union has asked its members across  the country to resume work on Wednesday next week after a meeting of its executive members to ratify the decision on Tuesday. Source : ChannelsTV

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FG APPEALS TO JOINT HEALTH WORKERS TO CALL OFF STRIKE The Federal Government has appealed to the Joint Health Sector Unions and healthcare providers in the Federal Health Institutions operating under the auspices of (JOHESU) to call off their strike. Sen. Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment, made the appeal in a statement signed by Mr Samuel Olowokere, Deputy Director Press in the ministry on Monday in Abuja. Ngige expressed deep regret over the ongoing strike embarked upon by the union and appealed to them to call off their industrial action. The minister pleaded with them to return to their different beats in the hospitals and institutions. He said that their calling off the strike would prevent unnecessary hardship and death of patients in the hospitals. “For the avoidance of doubt, however, the Ministry of Labour and Employment, working in concert with the Ministry of Health, has fixed another conciliatory meeting for tomorrow Tuesday, 26th Sept.  by 2 p...

Share this post in all Nursing group, let others be informed!  Good Evening Sir, Could you please introduce yourself for us? Good pm distinguished ladies and gentlemen, My name is Nurse Olaniyi A. Filade Project Manager of E-portal Project of NMCN.   Its a pleasure to be here for a brief presentation to enlighten members on the NMCN E-portal project. In line with the reforms undertaking by the leadership of the Council, the Council commenced the online services in 2012. Indexing applications and exams application started with a view of adding other services in phases and till date NMCN indexing is done 100% online    Examination applications are also now done online but the results are not yet released online for now. However, with the appointment of Alh. Faruk Umar Abubakar as the SG/R, the project is now being expanded to accommodate all Council's core services .   These services include;  • Indexing • Exams applications including release of result online...

The National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), Sokoto chapter has appealed to the Federal Government to intervene in the nationwide strike recently embarked upon by the association. Abubakar Shehu, Chairman of the state chapter of the association, made the appeal in Sokoto on Sunday while speaking with newsmen. Shehu said: “Government should consider the matter as urgently as possible bearing in mind the pains and suffering of the citizen. “The Federal Government should consider the pain people are going through in the country, sit down with the labour leaders and find a lasting solution to the strikes. “Moreover, if you give everybody his or her deserved right, to me you have finished with that person and he or she will have no option than to continue to do their jobs.” He further explained that initially, members had no intention of embarking on strike and that it was the situation on ground that informed the action. “For a long time now we have been making d...

WHAT NURSES ARE PASSING THROUGH IN SOME GENERAL HOSPITALS. By Umaru Isah Kumo. A Nigerian Nurse Cry... As a Nurse who works in a General Hospital, it is truely frustrating to realise that our leaders do not acceed to the International Nursing Standards (W.H.O standard is 3 patient per 1 nurse) as is done around the world. In my place of work we have 1 - 22 for every shift in some wards, this means a single nurse to a total of 22 patients. I know this wouldn't be much of a shock to most nurses as some places are a whole lot worse than mine in terms of nurses-patient ratios. You might wonder to yourself "this isn't possible" while reading this but let me break it down for you: we have three (3) Doctors & a total of sixty (60) Nurses working in our General Hospital (Remember not all work the same shifts, or in the saame wards or the same days...). Sometimes in a Ward the Nurse who is supposed to be on duty falls ill, most likely due to...

The major unions of health workers have announced the commencement of their nationwide strike on Wednesday. The Joint Health Sector Unions and Assembly of Health Care Professionals, JOHESU, and the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives, NANNM, announced the strike on Tuesday. According to a statement signed by the National President of NANNM, Abdrafiu Adeniji, all nurses and midwives in all federal health institutions are to proceed on an indefinite strike action from midnight of Wednesday. Mr. Adeniji said the association is in agreement with all JOHESU’s positions on the recent seven-day ultimatum given to the federal government to accede to all its lingering demands dated back to 2012. The strike is coming barely a week after the National Association of Resident Doctors suspended its strike. The healtht workers had earlier threatened to embark on an indefinite industrial action that would shut down operations in public hospitals due to the prolonged delay by...

Nurses and other categories of health workers at the University College Hospital, Ibadan have issued a 14-day ultimatum to the Federal Government to accede to their demands or risk losing their services. At a joint press conference called by the executive of the various health workers’ associations in Ibadan on Thursday, the workers said the ultimatum was in addition to the planned strike by the Joint Health Sector Union at the national level, which would commence on September 20, 2017. The unions represented at the press conference were the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives, the Nigerian Union of Allied Health Professionals, the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities and Tertiary Institutions, Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria and the Senior Staff Association of Universities, Teaching Hospitals, Research Institutes and Associated Institutions. The Chairman of NUAHP, Victor Sotiloye, told newsmen that the unions had reached a conclusion that if the ...

NURSING INFORMATICS, A KEY TO IMPROVING NURSING PRACTICE A PAPER PRESENTED BY Nurse (Prof.) AJIBADE, Bayo Lawal DURING THE 17TH SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE / GENERAL ANNUAL MEETING ORGANIZED BY THE BODY OF HEADS OF NURSING SERVICES DEPARTMENT AND PRINCIPALS OF SCHOOL IN FEDERAL INSTITUTIONS                                 AT THE FEDERAL MEDICAL CENTRE, KEFFI, NASARAWA STATE NIGERIA 10TH AND 16TH SEPTEMBER, 2017 Abstract Informatics are essential for nursing practice, and are critical to providing safe and effective patient care. This paper on nursing Informatics, a key to improving nursing practice was presented at the 17th Scientific Conference/General Meeting by the body of Heads of Nursing Services Department and principals of School in Federal Institutions hosted by the Department of nursing Services, Federal Medical Centre, Keffi. The Diffusion of Innovation theory by Rogers served as the theo...

The National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) has issued a strike notice to the Nigerian government. The association urged the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency in the health sector to ensure a comprehensive resolution of all matters plaguing the sector. A statement on Monday by Aliyu Shehu, national publicity secretary, said such radical approach is “urgently needed to resolve issues in the health sector including administration, practice, headship, representation, benefits, and welfare of all stakeholders in the industry”. It warned that resolution of contentious issues with members of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) would open up a chain of industrial actions by other unions and associations in the health industry. NANNM said that the issues it presented to government predated those raised by NARD, which the Federal Ministries of Health and Labour ignored in spite of court judgments. The association listed some of...

Alhaji Farouk the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria speak on different issues which includes: total numbers of Nursing and Midwifery Schools in Nigeria, Total number of Nurses on the register, how to go about registration as a nurse in Nigeria if you trained abroad, war against Auxiliary nurses etc Can you tell us the number of nursing and midwifery schools in the country?  There are about 209 of them regulated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria. There are 126 schools in the south and 83 in the north. The total approved slots  in the 209 schools is about 8,485.  Out of this number, 4,995 is from the South while 3,490 is from the northern part of the country. Twenty-five schools are embargoed in the south and two in the north.  It is no gain saying that the southern part of the country is more advanced in terms of Western education and has more schools of nursing and midwifery. The council is ready to accredit more schools of nursing and ...