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.
Basic Registration is concerned with the registration of Nurses/Midwives who have completed their General Nursing or Basic Midwifery Education and were successful in the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria Final Professional Qualifying Examination and Foreign Trained Nurses who have met the Councils requirement for registration.
Qualified applicants who have completed their Basic Nursing/Midwifery training and have successfully gone through an approved Post Basic Nursing specialty.
The applicant submits a completed application form with the following documents:
It is mandatory that graduates of foreign nursing schools register with the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN) and obtain licence to practice prior to their professional practice in Nigeria. This process may take minimum of six (6) months and maximum of eighteen (18) months. The registration and licencing process can be facilitated by taking the following steps:
REQUIREMENTS FOR REGISTRATION OF FOREIGN TRAINED NURSES FROM SUDAN, REPUBLIC OF NIGER, REPUBLIC OF BENIN AND OTHER FRANCOPHONE COUNTRIES
It is mandatory that graduates of Foreign Nursing schools register with the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria and obtain licence to practice prior to their professional practice in Nigeria. The registration and licencing process can be facilitated by taking the following steps:
Note: There is no guarantee that document will be re-issued on supply of above listed items. The Council shall assess the situation and use her discretion to re-issue notification where need be.