MISSION STATEMENT

To ensure that Nursing and Midwifery Services are provided at all levels countrywide.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVE

• To contribute in the delivery of curative, preventive and rehabilitative nursing care, ensuring that all Sierra Leoneans within the country have access to quality care
• To provide sufficient information, knowledge and skills on emerging and re- emerging diseases
• To update the knowledge of nurses on the decentralization process and its effect on nursing
• To provide information on continuing Nursing Education Programmes for nurses
• To facilitate refresher training to update the nursing service
• To equitably distribute available staff to cover the whole country.
• To ensure the welfare of nurses within the institution and the communities where the give service.

FUTURE PLANS

The Board is currently doing a proposal which would feature on the infant and maternal mortality rate. A large number of hospitals are in need of more midwife volunteers at the Midwifery School; hence some key UN agencies and a handful of NGOs are helping the board with the recruitment process.

The Board is seriously considering setting up a curriculum for enrolment in Community Health.

This would help nurses pursue the midwifery training program, thereby enhancing their chances of becoming full time practicing midwives. It would also go a long way in reducing the high number of infant and maternal mortality rate.

The Board is currently putting mechanisms in place to carry out future in-service trainings in order that nurses would benefit from such refresher courses.

There is currently the problem of retaining nurses; this is due to the current salary structures. However, the director of the board hopes that this and other vital issues would be looked into so that nurses could be retained after their various trainings.