[afro-nets] CRH Nursing Excellence Awards

["Stella Iwuagwu" <crhaids@yahoo.com>]

CRH Nursing Excellence Awards: Rewarding Professional Excellence in Nursing Practice
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CRH with support from the Ford Foundation Office for West Africa announces the first award ceremonies to reward professional excellence in the nursing practice.

The Centre for the Right to Health (CRH) is a non- profit, non- religious, non-governmental organization founded in 1999, dedicated to research, training and advocacy for the realization of the right to health in Nigeria, especially for vulnerable groups such as women, children, youths and people living with HIV/AIDS. CRH mobilizes the efforts of a wide range of stakeholders in its bid to actualize the right to health in Nigeria. 

Call for nomination
Nurses in Nigeria are faced with multi faceted challenges at work which has caused many of them to seek greener pastures outside the shores of the country. Yet many more persevered to be the bedrock of our healthcare system. They devoted their time and energies pursuing the wellbeing of their patients and improvement of the work environment. We cannot pretend not to notice them; they need to be encouraged and motivated to do more. We therefore request you to nominate Nurses from Imo State and The Federal Capital Territory and its environs that are extra ordinary in the discharge of their ordinary duties for a merit award of professional excellence.

How to nominate
Nominations must carry full names and work details of nominees which should contain a short testimony or reference letter detailing the special deeds or conducts that marks the nominee out for honour. Full names, addresses and phone numbers or contact details of the one nominating are required. Nominations are open until close of work on 16th February 2007.  

Selection Panel 
Inter disciplinary team of professionals will examine the nominations and objectively select the awardees.  

Selected Nominees
Selected nominees will be honoured in two separate award ceremonies holding in Abuja and Owerri respectively in April 2007 as we celebrate the World Health Day.  We have done a great deal of work with health professionals in Imo State and Abuja and want to encourage them become advocates of health rights as well as keep the spirit of nursing alive and healthy.   

Further information and enquiries
Please direct your nominations and other inquiries to the Events Manager, Center for the Right to Health (CRH) at any of her three offices: 3, Obanle-Aro Avenue, Off Coker, Road Round About, Ilupeju , Lagos;  3rd Floor, Nwaora Plaza, Plot 1103 Dar Salaam Street, Off Aminu Kano Crescent, Wuse 2, FCT, Abuja or  40 Wetheral Road, Owerri or to mailto:crhaids@yahoo.com


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Bede Eziefule
Project Director
Center for the Right to Health
mailto:crhaids@yahoo.com