The indexing division is one of the key units of the Nursing & Midwifery Council of Nigeria and all other activities of Council revolve around the unit. It is responsible for the indexing of Students for the various Basic and Post Basic Nursing Programmes throughout the Federation.
Indexing of students involves the profiling of Nursing or Midwifery students’ personal data into the Council’s database and ensuring that the students’ qualification for admission into the programme is based on the approved entry requirements.
Presently the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria has nineteen (19) approved basic and post basic programmes in all accredited Nursing and Midwifery Training Institutions in Nigeria.
These programmes are:
This division is under Education Department headed, by a Deputy Director who co-ordinates all activities relating to the conduct of the Final Qualifying Examinations of the Council.
FUNCTIONS
For ease of function the unit is divided into three (3) sections viz:
The functions include:
INTRODUCTION.
The Registration Unit of the Council is charged with the responsibility of entering into the registers, names of qualified General Nurses, Midwives and seventeen (17) Post Basic Nursing Programmes. The Unit also handles the registration of Foreign Trained Nurses who have met the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria’s requirements for registration.
The Unit also processes and dispatches notifications of registration to schools/individuals, maintains current volumes of registers for the various categories of Nurses and also keeps statistical records of those registered. The Unit presently maintains nineteen registers for the under listed categories of nurses.
The Updating/Licencing Division of Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria is responsible for the updating and issuance of practicing licences to all categories of registered nurses within and outside the Country. It is also the Division responsibility to treat all correspondences and keeping statistics of all processed and dispatched licences.
The Division has been in existence since 1987 and its activities supported and enforced by section 5 of the amended decree 54 of 1988 which stipulates that “no nurse shall be allowed to practice or continue to practice in any year except such a nurse has paid the Licencing fee as prescribed by the Council”.
The Updating/Licensing/Verification Division of the Council is charged with the following responsibilities:
Division is supervised by a Deputy Director who:
