Popular comedian, Derrick Kobina Bonney famously known in the entertainment circle as DKB has lambasted the Nursing and Midwifery Council for making Nursing a ‘common’ job for people who read different courses in their various Senior High Schools pursue nursing.
DKB who seemed very angry asserted that it’s very bad for people who didn’t read the science course in the SHS pursue nursing because they do not know the nitty-gritty of how systems in the bodywork which thereby causing more harm in the country.
This call of DKB comes after he was informed that a close friend of his has suddenly passed away due to the carelessness of a nurse.
“I’m very angry this evening… I just got information from a friend that he lost a relative because a nurse misdiagnosed or misappropriated a medication and he lost a loved one. For how long are we going to tolerate these fraud nurses in the system? For how long are we going to tolerate these scam of nurses?”, he quizzed.
“At first, nursing used to be a noble profession that demanded Science students to pursue that field. When and how come all of a sudden, anybody with any background can do nursing because of private nursing schools? All those things need to be scrapped where the Nursing and Midwifery Council or Ministry of Health needs to wake up. What are Arts students doing in the nursing field? A nurse with background History, Governance, Economics. Are you going to economize in the hospital or you’re going to administer drugs where you need chemistry physics and biology”?
“…the Nursing governing body, it should be a standard. If I’m not a science student, you cannot pursue nursing.”
“It’s a field for Sciences so you need to have a Science background. If you disagree with me, how come is it that the doctoring field or becoming a doctor doesn’t demand Visuals Arts but Science students? So how come the people who work hand in hand with doctors, we allow Arts students (people without Science background) to work with them in the hospital?.
“Nurses who fear blood, nurse who fear flesh tearing off. We need to standardize the system. If you’re not a science student, you have no business doing anything in the nursing field”.
“Has nursing become this cheap?” he asked rhetorically.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Joseph Asare
