{"id":19338,"date":"2024-02-12T10:25:29","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T10:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=19338"},"modified":"2024-02-12T10:25:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T10:25:29","slug":"just-in-abuja-nurses-rally-against-new-certification-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/02\/12\/just-in-abuja-nurses-rally-against-new-certification-guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"JUST IN: Abuja Nurses Rally Against New Certification Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex-1 overflow-hidden\">\n<div class=\"react-scroll-to-bottom--css-tlapy-79elbk h-full\">\n<div class=\"react-scroll-to-bottom--css-tlapy-1n7m0yu\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-col pb-9 text-sm\">\n<div class=\"w-full text-token-text-primary\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-17\">\n<div class=\"px-4 py-2 justify-center text-base md:gap-6 m-auto\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-1 text-base mx-auto gap-3 md:px-5 lg:px-1 xl:px-5 md:max-w-3xl lg:max-w-[40rem] xl:max-w-[48rem] group final-completion\">\n<div class=\"relative flex w-full flex-col lg:w-[calc(100%-115px)] agent-turn\">\n<div class=\"flex-col gap-1 md:gap-3\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-grow flex-col max-w-full\">\n<div class=\"min-h-[20px] text-message flex flex-col items-start gap-3 whitespace-pre-wrap break-words [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-5 overflow-x-auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"765f6d31-62e1-4108-a39e-0601d3e94482\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert dark\">\n<p>Nurses affiliated with the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives, Abuja chapter, staged a protest today opposing the recently issued certification verification guidelines by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Expressing dissatisfaction, the nurses accused the council of impeding their career opportunities and called for attention to issues such as nurses&#8217; welfare, salary scale, staff shortages, and other rights.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstration took place at the NMCN&#8217;s office in Abuja and was closely monitored by our correspondent.<\/p>\n<p>The NMCN had, on February 7, 2024, released a circular revising the certification verification guidelines for nurses and midwives after The PUNCH reported the deactivation of the verification portal in December 2023.<\/p>\n<p>According to the circular signed by the Registrar, Dr. Faruk Abubakar, applicants are required to pay a non-refundable fee for verification to foreign nursing boards. The guidelines also specified criteria such as a minimum of two years of post-qualification experience, a letter of good standing, and active practicing licenses with at least six months to expiry.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters, carrying placards with messages addressing unemployment, quackery, nurses&#8217; welfare, and expressing opposition to the verification rules, demanded that the council address their concerns. The NMCN&#8217;s guidelines are set to take effect from March 1, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>More details later&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nurses affiliated with the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives, Abuja chapter, staged a protest today opposing the recently issued certification verification guidelines by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria. Expressing dissatisfaction, the nurses accused the council of impeding their career opportunities and called for attention to issues such as nurses&#8217; welfare, salary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":19340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-19338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19342,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19338\/revisions\/19342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}