The Chairman,
Police Service
Commission (PSC),
Federal
Secreteriat Complex, Phase I,
Shehu Shagari Way Maitama, Abuja, Nigeria
Sir,
PLACEMENT OF
GRADUATES OF BACHELOR OF NURSING SCIENCE (B.N.Sc) DEGREE BELOW PAR: PLEASE,
KINDLY RECTIFY THIS ABBERATION
Nightingale's
greetings from members of the nursing profession!
i 3. Over the years, graduates of B.N.Sc
degree have been appointed to the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police
(ASP) 2 (one star) whereas their counterparts in Pharmacy, another core
healthcare profession that is on parity with nursing, have been appointed on
ASP 1 (two stars).
4. The argument that has been used to
sustain this unwarranted inequity, which was that Pharmacists unlike graduate
nurses run a one-year internship training upon graduation, has expired and thus
no longer holds water as the one year internship training in question has
similarly become a compulsory component of the university education of the
graduates of B.N.Sc degree (Please kindly refer to attached Annexure A).
iv.
5. Since Nursing is a profession sui generis and by the industrial
arbitration panel award of the year 1981 (Annexure B), is on parity in Nigeria
with the profession of Pharmacy as is the case in Great Britain, continued
underplacement of graduate nurses below their par (their counterparts in
Pharmacy) henceforth would be conceived as unspeakable injustice and would
portray the police in bad light.
6. The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) as
an organization that fights injustice and disorderliness in the land should not
be seen as a purveyor of injustice, inequity and discrimination which are the
chief sources of acrimony, anarchy, and disorderliness in any society.
In 7. In the University, admission
requirements and course duration for both the Bachelor of Pharmacy (B.Pharm)
and B.N.Sc degree are similar, and as both professions now have a one-year
compulsory internship training pre-NYSC (National Youth Service Corps), there
is no more logical or rational justification to sustain the age-long unwarranted
disparity in their placement.
8. Aside the academic parity of B.N.Sc
and B.Pharm degrees, the nurse also has the highest workload among members of
the medical team. In the healthcare delivery system, the nurse is not only the
first and last point of client’s call but also the central and coordinating
element upon which other members of the healthcare team must rely on to
function. Incidentally the nurse, because the indispensable nature of his/her
role demands a "must stay” stance with patients round-the-clock, has the
highest burden of workload than the rest of the healthcare team members.
10. Such act, if continued thereafter,
will sully the image and reputation of the police as an agent of the government
that promotes national unity and peaceful co-existence and therefore must be
avoided at all cost in the interest of the standing reputation of the NPF as an
organisation that promotes equity, fairness and peace.
PRAYER
With
a strong belief that the NPF does not tolerate injustice, inequity,
marginalization and wanton discrimination of any guise, we humbly pray that the
age-long unwarranted disparity in placement of the graduates of the B.N.Sc
degree and their par, the graduates of B.Pharm degree, be immediately corrected
by
i. appointing the Graduates of the B.N.Sc
degree undergoing training in the current NPF recruitment exercise as ASP 1
(two stars) as has been the case with their par, the graduates of B.Pharm
degree.
iii. according the Graduates of B.N.Sc degree
similar treatment as their par, the graduates of B.Pharm degree, by the NPF in
its future events.
Please
kindly accept assurances of our esteemed warmest regard as we appreciate your
considered positive response.
Submitted
with deepest sense of respect and responsibility!
Signed
Chief (Hon) S.E.O.
EGWUENU
Nurse G.I. Nshi
National President
National Secretary
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