Expose Names Of Failed 1,696 Nurses

The President of the Ghana Registered Nurses Association is calling for the names of nursing students who fail the licensure examination to be published in the media. Alice Asare-Allotey said it is about time names and faces accompanied the figures of failed students since most of them clandestinely move to practice privately. Her comments follow the news that some 1,696 candidates failed this year’s licensure examination, representing 61. 1 per cent of the total number of students who sat the test. Students who failed the papers are usually referred to re-write the examinations, but Mrs. Asare-Allotey told Citi News some of them do not re-sit the papers, instead sneak to private health facilities to practice. She considered the trend as very dangerous and hopes publishing their names will put a stop to the practice. According to Mrs. Asare-Allotey, “the caliber of students who go into the training schools these days are not serious at all. When they come to the clinical they are so much entangled with the mobile phone." “Normally as the president, I go to the various training schools in the regions to see how my nurses and midwives are fairing and when you get to the schools, and they tell you what the students do; absenteeism, they wouldn’t come to school, when the teacher is teaching they are browsing." She added: “What baffles us is that when they are referred, they are supposed to be back to the classroom and re-sit but what do we see, they go into the private hospitals and private clinics to practice and so we are trying to say that the list should be published. “All those who passed should be published. ”