The Lagos State Health Service Commission has said nursing programmes are underfunded.
While giving her opening remarks, Director of Nursing Service, Lagos State, Mrs Adebukola Cole, said the conference was organised to identify challenges being faced by nursing professionals and proffer solutions.
“This conference is organised not only to update our knowledge but to identify challenges being faced by the profession and proffer possible solutions for our present and future generations in order to achieve patient safety, satisfaction, and positive outcome. The theme, ‘Our nurses, our future,’ will shine the light on nurses and on a brighter future, move nurses from invisible to visible.”
Chairman of the conference, Chairman, Allied Computers, Mr Abiodun Balogun, advised that nurses should be well trained and well paid.Balogun said, “AI is an advanced information technology. Just as they have embraced info tech, nurses should also embrace AI to improve their productivity and effectiveness at getting data.”
Chairman, National Association of Nigeria Nurses &Midwives, Lagos, Mr Olurotimi Awojide, counseled the nurses to be more dedicated, saying there was a reward for every effort made.All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.
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