Nursing: The Role And Role Of Nursing In Nigeria

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CHAPTER ONE
1.0. INTRODUCTION
Nurse means “to care” or “nourish” the term nurse suggests attendance and service, having its antonym as “neglect”. The meaning of a nurse is a person formally educated in the care of the sick or infirm, especially a registered nurse.
Nursing begun as the desire to keep people healthy and provide comfort, care and assurance to the sick. Societal changing needs have also influenced the general goals of nursing in the present global world. As history will have it, nursing and medicine have been interrelated. During the Era of Hippocrates, medicine was practiced without nursing and during the middle ages, nursing was not named then as nursing. As history will have it, men and women have held the role of a nurse. …show more content…

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
According to the nursing and midwifery council of Nigeria (2005), detailed history of a profession that combines scientific principles, technical skills relayed, but documents revealed that caring profession came into awareness since 1854.
In the very olden days, nursing was mainly practiced in a family setting, with mother caring for her children and nurturing care tremendously increased for acquaintances. About 1880, status of nursing greatly improved many females and religious individuals became involved in patient care. Then many school of nursing sprang up in Europe. The very first established in 1836 by Parker. The order fluentness, in Kevesworth Germany through the influence of Florence Nightingale.
The first movement for the recognition and registration of the nurse occurred in 1882. Mary E. Mohney was the first African American graduate nurses, that promoted integration and better working conditions for black clients and healthcare workers.
In Nigeria, caring was initiated towards the wounded came through the British colonial master. Services and care were initiated towards the wounded soldiers at the “forte”. The first nursing home in Nigeria was established in Jericho, Ibadan by the British …show more content…

Problems associated with this kind of training were that no real formal education, also language was today in Nigeria, institutions offering nursing education are inadequate, the schools of nursing offering three years nursing programmes with vast clinical training and practicum and the university programme offering five years bachelors of Nursing Science programme (BNSC). Also we have different institutions offering Post Basic Nursing Education Programme, with duration varying from one full calendar year to two years. Certificate being awarded is Diploma in such area of specialization like: Diploma in Paediatric Nursing, Accident and Emergency caring, Tutorial Nursing, otorhinolaryngology

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