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Nursing and Midwifery Council exam goes online
Mr Felix Nyante, Registrar of the Nurses and Midwives Council, speaking at the meeting

Nursing and Midwifery Council exam goes online

The Nursing and Midwifery Council (N&MC) is now in a position to conduct online licensing examination for its members.

This follows a successful implementation of a four-year project.

The project, which began in 2016 with funding from The Netherlands Government, has so far improved the organisational capacity of the N&MC to conduct efficient, effective and credible licensing examinations for nurse assistants, nurses and midwives.

Best practice

In 2018, the council began its first online licensing examination for the Registered Mental Health Nurses (RMN) candidates and has since progressed to a  stage where the online licensing examination system has been rolled out for all the nursing and midwifery programmes in Ghana.

 The Minister of Health, Mr Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, who spoke virtually at the close-out conference in Accra, said the project had positioned Ghana as the first in Africa to conduct online licensing examination for nurses and midwives.

He was happy that the nursing and midwifery regulatory system continued to earn global applause because more countries continued to send delegates to understudy the operations of the council.

E-learning

 According to Mr Agyeman-Manu, e-learning in nursing and midwifery education was a means to an end, rather than an end in itself, hence utilising e-learning could result in greater educational opportunities for students while simultaneously enhancing faculty effectiveness and efficiency.

He said the potential of e-learning, however, assumed a certain level of institutional readiness in human and infrastructural resources which ensured the alignment of new tools to the educational and economic context.

Mr Agyeman-Manu said the government would continuously upgrade its medical, nursing and midwifery curricula and continue to train young doctors, nurses, midwives and other healthcare professionals in a world-class fashion.

He lauded all those who worked hard to bring the project to fruition, especially the Netherlands government, through its Embassy in Ghana, Nuffic and the N&MC and urged them to provide stronger leadership and a sustainability plan for the continuation of the project.

Benefits of digitisation

The Registrar of the N&MC, Mr Felix Nyante, said prior to the introduction of the project, the council conducted paper examinations, where papers were transported in huge bags to and from the examination centres.

He said the introduction of the online examinations had reduced the cost of conducting examination and the days for the release of the examination results from 70 working days to 20 days.

Mr Nyante said the online licensing examination was not the only tangible outcome of the project, adding that 48 staff members of the council had also benefited from capacity building in higher education.

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