Professionalism: NMCN aims to deploy the highest level of competence and expertise including sound judgment and caring behavior in the training and practice of nursing and midwifery.
Transparency: Honesty and openness are the operational watchwords of NMCN in all its transactions with both internal and external clients.
Credibility: Council aims to evolve as a public organization that people can trust and produce a crop of professionals that clients can believe in at all times
Accessibility: Council operates an inclusive organization that is easy to approach, reach and understand by all staff and clients seeking to patronize it.
Responsiveness: Council seeks to quickly and positively react to internal and external clients and conditions and aims to inculcate such culture in all its staff, nursing and midwifery students and those in practice.
Efficiency: NMCN aims to achieve the best result possible with the least amount of resources necessary by ensuring best quality is deployed always.
Dynamism: NMCN is an organization that is able to quickly and effectively adjust or adapt to changes in internal and external environments and wants its products to do the same.
The primary objectives of the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria are to ensure high quality of Nursing and Midwifery education in Nigeria, maintain high standard of professional nursing and midwifery practice and enforce discipline within the profession.
Broadly, the Council’s functions are related to those of designing, implementing and evaluating various nursing and midwifery educational programmes, of indexing, examination, registration, certification, licensure of professional nurses and midwives and monitoring standards of nursing and midwifery practice in the Country.
Specifically, the Council’s functions are as follows: