The University of Calabar has inducted 90 graduates of Nursing Science into the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria.
This is to bridge the shortage of nursing professionals in Cross River State.
Thirty-Seven of the nurses were inducted by the Registrar of the Council, Dr Farouk Abubakar, at the University’s International Conference Centre in Calabar.
Abubakar urged them to uphold the standard of the profession by discharging their duties in line with the oath they took, advising them to contribute to the health delivery in Cross River State in particular and Nigeria in general.
On her part, the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Prof. Florence Obi, who inducted others, also congratulated the graduates for the feat, with a charge that they should go into the field and make exploits.
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The VC urged the newly inducted nurses, to practice their profession with ethics and to see themselves as care and support givers to their patients at all times.
Prof. Obi also advised the graduands, to fly high ethical standards in the discharge of their professional duties, urging them to always remember that they are also the ambassadors of the institution.
Edited: Tunde Orebiyi.
