Osabarimba Kwesi Atta, the Paramount Chief for the Oguaa Traditional Area in the Central Region, has urged trainee nurses and midwives of the Cape Coast Nursing and Midwifery Training College to apply strict professionalism in the discharge of their duties.
The Oguaa Manhene advised the trainees to discharge their duty to patients with the utmost care, patience, and the fear of God when they finally pass out as professional health practitioners.
Osabarimba Kwesi Atta made these comments at the matriculation, graduation, and 75th anniversary of the Cape Coast Nursing and Midwifery Training College, where 613 new students were admitted to the school.
“The nursing profession is not like hairdressing because if you don’t have patience and the fear of God, you can’t be a nurse. Because a patient can come to the hospital just to provoke you, but you as a nurse must learn to keep your cool to still engage with such a person.”
“You have been trained to be a professional, but if you don’t have a good character, you can’t work anywhere in the world, so as you go into the workspace, let us be patient and be circumspect in our utterances while dealing with your patient,” he said as aired on Rainbow Radio.
Osabarimba Kwesi Atta, addressing a number of 613 newly admitted students to the institution, coupled with a number of graduating health practitioners from college ahead of their practice as professional nurses and midwives, advised them that the greatest gift any nurse can offer a patient is to have the patient speak highly of the nurse after treatment.
The Central Regional Minister, Justina Marigold Assan, also seized the opportunity to highlight the important and invaluable role nurses and midwives play in Ghana’s healthcare delivery system.
“Indeed, nurses and midwives play an invaluable role in Ghana’s healthcare delivery system as they care for patients and save lives. Your desire to save lives is a divine call, granted that you are a few professionals entrusted with nurturing human lives right from conception to the grave.”
By: Joel Eshun/Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
