Private Nursing Institutions to be monitored

With some 4,000 State Enrolled Community Health Nurses (SECHN) awaiting employment, government is being urged to step up monitoring of private nursing schools around the country.
Chairman of the Sierra Leone Health Service Commission (HSC) has urged government to institute an effective monitoring system to check nursing training schools in the country.
Dr. Alpha Bundu-Kamara to Awoko in an interview at the Commission’s headquarters, along Main Motor Road, Brookfields that there is every need for government and health partners to invest in both the financial and human resources of the country’s health referral system.
He maintained that it only when there are such investments would Sierra Leone be considered as having a referral health system that is of International standards.
This system, he noted would require a good number of qualified lower cadre staff to effectively and efficiently manage the sector.
Questioned on why the need to monitor private nursing schools; with a broad smile he responded that a good number of nursing training schools have sprung up recently, which brings about the concern of quality as against quantity.
“Before, there were two or more government nursing schools in the country, with a few more private owned that are recognised, but over the years so many of these schools have sprung up; which is good, but our fear is the quality of tuition given to the students and the worrisome side is, they are certified by the Nurses’ Board as qualified to practice once they complete their courses,” Dr. Bundu-Kamara indicated.

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