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Nurses and midwives in the country need higher education in order to enhance healthcare delivery at various heathy facilities, according to the Principal for the Peri-Operative and Critical Nursing School, Dr. Kwaku Asante-Krobea.

He believes patients will be safer in the hands of nurses and midwives with higher education, which will ultimately promote the dignity of the health care profession.   

“I will never drop my conviction that patients are always safer in the hands of a highly educated nurse and midwife and so we should continue to aim at and press for higher professional and academic identity to address this need,” Dr. Asante disclosed.  

Dr. Kwaku Asante-Krobea made this call during the launch of the 20th Anniversary celebrations of the School of Peri-Operative and Critical Nursing in Accra on Tuesday.

“The nursing certificate and diploma, now the most popular route to becoming a nurse and midwife, must all be phased out to strengthen my conviction that a nurse and midwife should be difficult to become and with the acquisition of higher education and more competent skills,” he reiterated.

Dr. Kwaku Asante-Krobea also called on the government to address the high need for  Peri-Operative and Critical nurses in the country.

“In Ghana, we are still struggling to provide patients with safer and adequate Peri-Operative Nursing care, a situation which is counter-productive to sound surgical outcomes because every five surgical clients need one Peri-Operative Nurse and every one or two critical-ill clients need a Critical Care Nurse,” he explained. 

Peri-Operative and Critical Care Nurses promote quality service and care delivery in the operating theatres and intensive care units of health facilities.

He noted that the only public Peri-Operative and Critical Nursing School in the country though has seen some level of development   still need infrastructural development.