The Head of the civil service of the
federation has confirmed officially
the approval of the Unified scheme
of service for nurses and one year
internship program for graduate
nurses in the service.

In a Memo obtained by a
Nursingworld Nigeria
correspondent, dated 27th
September 2016 with Ref No:
HCSF/EPO/EIR/CND/100/ST
directed to the honorable minister
of the federal ministry of health, Mrs
Kehinde Adeyemi Director
organization Design and
development at the civil service
commission referred to the memo
submitted for the consideration and
approval of the national council on
establishments (NCE), she
confirmed that the council at its
39th meeting held in Minna, Niger
state in July 2016 approved a
unified scheme of service for all
nurses with the nomenclature
'Nursing Officer'.

However, Career
progression for nurses
with only Nigeria Registered Nurse
and Nigeria Registered Midwife
(NRN and NRM) qualifications,
beyond CONHESS 12 shall be
subject to the acquisition of BSC
Nursing degree from universities
accredited by the National
Universities commission.
In addition, approval has also been
given by the council for the
inclusion of internship programme
in the scheme of service for
graduate Nurses that have no prior
NRN/NRM qualifications.

Accordingly, Intern Nurses are to
placed on GL.08 while qualified/
post-Intern Nurses are to be
appointed into the service on
SGL09

Reacting to this new development,
Jennifer Emelue of Nursingworld
Nigeria noted that Nursing Interns
are not disadvantaged compared to
any other medical course studied in
any university or any where else in
the world and hence wondered why
the disparity in entry point for intern
nurses. She however recalled that it
took justified agitations from the
MLSCN and AMLSN before a
corrected entry point for intern med
lab scientist was issued by the
Head of service, bumping their
entry point from CONHESS 08 step
1 to CONHESS 08 Step 2. She
prayed that such geture would be
extended to correct this anomaly
The approved harmonized scheme
of servie for Nurses including
internhsip programme for graduate
nurses would be reflected in the
next edition of the schemes of
service for use in the civil service of
the federation, to be published
soon.


source
http://www.nursingworldnigeria.com/2016/10/hocsf-confirms-approval-of-unified-scheme-of-service-and-internship-program-for-nurses

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