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NMCN 2022/2023 Professional Exam Date [Nurses & Midwives]
Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN) 2022/2023 November Professional Examination Dates and Guidelines for General / Post Basic Nurses and Basic/Post-Basic and Community Midwifery.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigerian wishes to inform you that the Honourable Minister of Health has approved the conduct of March, 2023 and November, 2022 Professional Examination for Nurses and Midwives.


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NMCN 2022 Professional Examination Date for General /Post-Basic Nursing - May, 2023

As you are aware, the Professional Examination for General/Post Basic Nursing is usually conducted on first Tuesdays through Thursdays in May and November of every year respectively. However, May, 2023 Professional Examination for General/Post Basic Nursing fall on Tuesday 2nd – Thursday 4th May, 2023.

The Board of the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria at its General Meeting has approved that the Professional Examination for General/Post Basic Nursing shall hold from Tuesday 2nd – Thursday 4th May, 2023.

NMCN 2023 Professional Examination Date for Basic/Post-Basic and Community Midwifery & Guidelines - March, 2023.

NMCN CHANGE OF DATE FOR MARCH 2023 PROFESSIONAL EXAMINATION IN MIDWIFERY

As you are aware of the Federal Government directives on closure of tertiary institutions in Nigeria, to allow eligible individuals exercise their franchise during the 2023 General Elections.

In compliance with the above directives, the Council has approved that the March 2023 Professional Examination in Midwifery be rescheduled to take place from Tuesday 21st to Friday 24th March, 2023.

Kindly bring the content of this Circular to the notice of all concerned.

The Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria regrets all inconveniences regarding this change.

Please note that the next Professional Examination for Midwives has been scheduled to hold from Tuesday 21st to Friday 24th March, 2023.

Heads of nursing training institutions are hereby directed to send In (statistics of eligible candidates and hard copies of their application forms for March 2023 Professional Examination for Midwives to reach the Council on or before February, 2023. Failure to comply with the above directives indicate that the institution(s) do not have candidate(s) for the examination.

In view of the above, all Heads of Institutions who have registered candidates for the above examinations are hereby directed to strictly adhere to the preventive protocols of COVID-19 provided by the Presidential Task Force (PTF), National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and the Federal Ministry of Health by taking note of the following:

  1. Decontamination of the Examination halls and the furniture 
  2. Provision of adequate hand washing facilities around the examination centers 
  3. Provision and use of alcohol based hand sanitizer at the centers of the examination
  4. Provision and use of infrared thermometer for assessment of body temperature 
  5. Compulsory use of face masks by all the candidates and any other person participating in the examinations.
  6. Single seating arrangement for all students in order to maintain physical distance policy of not more than twenty-five (25) candidates in a class room and hundred (100) in an auditorium. 
  7. Institutions with more than one hundred (100) candidates are to send details of their sitting arrangement to the Council to allow for the conduct of inspection before the examination. 
  8. Failure to comply with (7) above, council will approve maximum of Fifty (50) candidates for the institution(s). 

It is pertinent to further note that all institutions are to ensure the above mentioned guidelines/protocols are put in place in order to partake in the aforementioned examinations.

Thank you for your cooperation with the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria in promoting and maintaining excellence in Nursing education and practice in line with global best practices.

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