NML Issue 9
NMLTT
2021
Protect.
Invest.
Together.
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CHIEF EDITORS NOTE BY COMMISIONER MUSEENE It is always a great pleasure for me to speak to you through these introductory messages. I thank God who has kept us alive, healthy and made us able to serve humanity. I feel privileged to share with you the joy of various achievement made by nurses and midwives. I appreciate nurses and midwives across the globe who have continued to serve in various capacities and settings. Many are serving in Hospitals, Clinics, Communities, Educational institutions, and Ministry departments and Directorates. Thank you for the continued service delivery at your various stations, patient care provision, teaching of nursing and midwifery students, and successfully celebrating the International Nurses Day and International Midwifery Day despite the COVID-19 era. In this COVID-19 era, updating our competencies is more needed than before; I challenge you to improve your skills continuously. Read and research to improve your knowledge because medicine, nursing and midwifery are dynamic, and new diseases are being discovered every day. Ensure that you practice what you confidently know. Where you are in doubt, please, do not hesitate to consult. Be sensitive to the current epidemic’s challenges and be aware that the rest of the other disease and conditions are still significant. Please be the health workers that our country and the globe need; full of ethical values and commitment to serve and drive the national and international health agenda. I look forward to a country with skilled nurses and midwives and a productive, healthy population. Thank you, For God and My Country. By Dr. Safinah Kisu Museene (Ph.D). Chairperson, uganda nurses and midwives’ leaders thinktank and Commissioner, health education and training, ministry of education and sports
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