Let's Rethink Rebranding The Nursing Profession

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Over the past few weeks and months, the agitation for a new nursing has been clamored for. We as nurses do not want to be seen as a people of negative or questionable characters but as a set of people who signed up to care for lives. To indeed attach an utmost importance to the lives of whosoever from whatsoever background whom we are assigned to. That is our job. What we do.

A few months ago, popular actress Regina Askia, (once a beauty pageant winner who eventually went to nursing school and has since been an activist for nursing rebrand) was on TV for the same purpose narrating how nurses are overworked and underequipped (such a combo to expect delivery). She sounded pained narrating her findings on the way nurses are being treated. More nurses who would stand together and give Nigerian nursing a new face.

Different other individuals have also stood up to defend this noble profession by creating groups, spooning initiatives, feeding the media, et al. I got wind of a movie was to be produced for Nurses by Nurses, now that's progress.
That been said, I would still like to point out the fact that all this rebranding and still remain the same..... I mean, being mean to patients, treating people as just another job, not following work ethics just because others don't isn't how to restate the definition of Nigerian nursing.

I once saw on a WhatsApp group, a promo poster of a movie, 'Dangerous Nurses'. Evidently, the guy (a male nurse) who had seen the poster and put it up was totally pissed off about it. Why do nurses get condemned straight away without being given a benefit of doubt, like no one even tries to give a different point of view... Nurses are mean, so what?
The solution to all this is being the right ambassadors. I believe a problem is not cured from outside in, rather, it is from the inside out. Rather than write the law on stone for man to see, now it should be written on their hearts........

Kudos to everyone who has partaken in the rebranding but this is not a responsibility for SOME rather it is for ALL and sundry in this noble profession.
Let's be the change we want to see,I remember some years back when Nigeria rebranded Good people, Great nation.... the whole media was involved. Today, the same Nigeria is called 'fantastically corrupt' . A continuation is required of course for every started campaign.
Rebranding isn't something we just mention once and sit back expecting a witch on a broomstick to carry on. It's high time nurses in training began to restate the general definition of Nigerian nurses right from our institutions.
One for all, all for one. Let's kick the wheels on and ensure it keeps on track.



The author, Arowona Ademola is a 300 level student of the prestigious department of Nursing Obafemi Awolowo University. He is a sapiosexual, a writer and a music lover

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