Many of our students were forced to study nursing - Director

The Director of Nursing at the Kwara State School of Nursing and Midwifery, Mrs Victoria Olusayo Aina has decried the lack of interest by some students of the school because they were forced to study nursing by their parents.

Speaking during an interview with Daily Trust, she said that the school of midwifery has not been working for sometimes now, adding that the state government was working towards reviving it and would soon call the nursing council for accreditation.

She said the school has about 500 to 600 applicants annually, saying “sometimes we admit 150 and other times we admit more than that. Our capacity doesn’t really matter in admitting the students but the numbers given to us by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria.”

“The challenges we have here is that people don’t know what it takes to be a nurse because some parents force their children to be a nurse while many of them do not have the interest because when we admit them we must reduce the size to the number our regulatory body gives. For now council ask us to index 30 nurses per annum. After admitting the 150, they will write examination in three months we slim it down, they write another exam in six months and there we get our best 30,” the director said.

She added that it is not certain that those 30 would graduate because many of them usually fail and repeat while they send some away due to bad performance.