Nursing Council talks tough on uniform
The Nurses and Midwives Council of Malawi has cautioned the Nursing and Midwifery fraternity that use of un prescribed uniform is disrespectful of the Ethical Code of Conduct of the Nursing and Midwifery profession and punishable by law.
The warning comes after observing that some Nurses and Midwives are failing to observe the stipulated dressing code and that certain employers or hospital owners do have their own uniforms without seeking an approval from the governing body.
The Council has since demanded that at all times the Nurses and Midwives should maintain standards of personal and professional conduct which reflect credit upon the professional image.
“This serves also as a reminder to all employers, hospital owners, that in accordance with the Nurses and Midwives council Act No 16 of 1985. Cap 36.02 Nurses and Midwives Council is the sole prescriber of Nurses and Midwives Uniform in Malawi as such no hospital should have its own uniform without the authorization of the Nurses and Midwives Council,” reads a statement signed by its Registrar.
The Registrar explains that the Council has standardized uniform to all Nurses and Midwives working in both private and public facilities to maintain uniformity among the Nursing and Midwifery personnel in the country.
According to the Registrar, the appeal to always up hold the dressing code is in best interest of their Nursing and Midwifery profession.
“The Council is hereby informing all Hospital Directors, District Health Officers, District Nursing and Midwifery Officers, Nursing and Midwifery Managers, Nurses and Midwives in all health facilities and training institutions to strictly observe the stipulated and approved new dressing code,” adds the Registrar.
According to the information made available by the Council; General Nurses in public, private or CHAM hospitals, have to put on a white top with navy blue boarder line in arms, collar and pockets plus a navy blue bottom (skirts or trousers) while Nurse Specialist beside public,private, CHAM (Mission) hospitals, it is a white top with navy blue boarder line and navy bottom (skirt or trousers).
Lectures and Tutors uniform is all navy blue bottom boarder line collar, arm and pockets whereas Chief Nursing Officer, Principal Nursing Officer or Matron the official dressing is all sky blue bottom top with boarder line arm and pockets.
The Council has mandated Community Health Nurses to be in all light green bottom top with boarder line collar, arm and pockets but Community Midwifery Assistant are supposed to be in dark green with white boarder lines, no badges or caps.
As for Epaulettes, Registered Nurse/Midwife is using white with green boarder line and green budge while Nursing/ Midwife Technician have been allowed to use white with maroon boarder line and maroon badge.
Sensitive that there are others who prefer dresses, the Council has said that all bedside Nurses it is white dress with navy blue boarder line while tutors is navy blue with white boarder line.
The Council has however cautioned that no dress should be a mixture of navy blue bottom and white top and that Skirts and Dresses should be below the knees and not provocative.
The Council has also stressed that official shoes is black, white or brown but flat shoe with no high heels.
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dear writter are these nurses in Malawi or students nurse at kcn in their Lecture theatre?
Sometimes it hinges on what sort of frame of mind one is viewing issues. I see in the comments that some say, Medical Council is smart. Really? In what sense? Doesn’t this demonstrate the point that the comment is coming from someone who delights in laissez-faire? You see, sometimes when one is a teacher and some students tend to call him a good teacher you don’t have to take the students’ point of view as wholesale truth. Such a teacher could be someone who smiles at mediocrity. Much as Nurses Council may have individual attitude problems, Medical is no good… Read more »
Za ziii. A nurse, ndikufuna chamber! Tathamangani mpwedzedze wandigwira
ine pala naona nurse…
Nkhuwona fwiti yabvala vituba!!!
Nursing is full of hatred from the steering bodies. I would never advise my relative to become a nurse…Nursing council is such a harsh for nothing body. Look at how smart Medical Council is?
Council people tatopa nanu instead of improving nursing education mukulimbana ndi. Zaziiiii-why Can’t U be going arrround and See the chachallenges Faced by nurrses
Azigogo a ku Nurses council ndi a choncho. Old age hence resistant to change.
Muisova kkkk
The passage from the registrar is moody. It shows she was furious and her anger can be seen in the way she has made her directives! Is Something wrong up there? Were there some non- compliance? The passage looks like a harsh reaction to me.
Kodi tchitoyo ikuyenda sikuyenda? Ngati ikuyenda ndiye basi palibe nkhani. Osamalimbana ndi zopusa.Ena amavala uniform yotchena kwabasi basi bindikire mu office. Silly