Direct graduate nurses are discriminated against
EDITOR: I wish to point out that there is discrimination against direct graduate nurse entrants in the appointments of assistant of the post of district health officer in all the districts. The district authorities prefer nurses who upgraded through the system.
EDITOR: I wish to point out that there is discrimination against direct graduate nurse entrants in the appointments of assistant of the post of district health officer in all the districts. The district authorities prefer nurses who upgraded through the system.
Such people include those who joined nursing schools for a certificate course. The position of assistant district health officer (maternal health) requires someone to be double trained at certificate level and then to have a degree in nursing.
Graduate nurses directly admitted to the nursing course do not have these certificates but performed better at O' and A'levels. At university, they do nursing community health, psychiatry and midwifery.
This means they are also double trained at degree level. Are they not better than those with certificates?
This is not considered because the rules of Public Service recruitment were formulated and manipulated by the old nurses who first went through certificate training before doing degree courses. They put in place such rules to bar the recruitment of bright direct entrants to universities so that they can monopolise the jobs!
I request for an explanation from the health and public service ministries about this matter. The requirement for someone to have been double-trained at certificate level should be scrapped because they were not put in place in good faith as qualified.
Direct entrants are superior professionals for this post.
We are also considering petitioning courts of law about this matter to ensure the double-trained clause at certificate level is removed. Young, bright direct graduate nurses should be saved from this discrimination.
Name withheld
Such people include those who joined nursing schools for a certificate course. The position of assistant district health officer (maternal health) requires someone to be double trained at certificate level and then to have a degree in nursing.
Graduate nurses directly admitted to the nursing course do not have these certificates but performed better at O' and A'levels. At university, they do nursing community health, psychiatry and midwifery.
This means they are also double trained at degree level. Are they not better than those with certificates?
This is not considered because the rules of Public Service recruitment were formulated and manipulated by the old nurses who first went through certificate training before doing degree courses. They put in place such rules to bar the recruitment of bright direct entrants to universities so that they can monopolise the jobs!
I request for an explanation from the health and public service ministries about this matter. The requirement for someone to have been double-trained at certificate level should be scrapped because they were not put in place in good faith as qualified.
Direct entrants are superior professionals for this post.
We are also considering petitioning courts of law about this matter to ensure the double-trained clause at certificate level is removed. Young, bright direct graduate nurses should be saved from this discrimination.
Name withheld