About us

MISSION STATEMENT

The Mission of the Nursing Council to safeguard the public interest by regulating the professions of nursing and midwifery through its legal responsibilities for registration and enrolment and disciplining of nursing and midwifery personnel trained locally and abroad:  establishing and monitoring standards of nursing and midwifery education and maintaining the integrity of the professions.

OUR VISION

To strengthen its position as a performance-driven, customer-centric organization which is sensitive to the needs of its stake-holders, ensuring professional standards and promoting best practices and excellence in nursing within the given context of environmental dynamics and change.

FUNCTIONS/DUTIES OF THE COUNCIL

The Council holds its statutory meeting every month, but works through Committees in order to conduct its business.  The work of the Council is facilitated through an Administrative structure headed by a Secretary and other clerical and support staff.

The finances of the Council are solely derived from fees and the services it delivers.  It is not funded by the government or any other agency.  The accounts of the Council are audited annually and forwarded to the Minister of Health with the Annual Report.

It is the duty of the Council to “advise the Minister on matters pertaining to nursing care for the sick and midwifery services…”

The Council carries out the following functions:

1.  EDUCATION

Develops and enforces reasonable and uniform standards for midwifery and nursing education and practice by:-

• Defining minimum entry requirements
• Stating the syllabus of training
• Approve curricula
• Approve places of training and affiliate places of training
• Monitor and evaluate student’s performance through reports and final examinations and in some programmes other examinations.

REGISTRATION/ENROLMENT

• Register by examination, persons trained in Nursing/Midwifery Programmes in Trinidad and Tobago.

• Register by endorsement, after careful scrutiny and completion of all requirements for the Register, all persons trained overseas, seeking registration as a Nurse and/or Midwife in Trinidad and Tobago.

• Enrol by examination, persons who have successfully completed in approved places, the Nursing Assistant programme in Trinidad and Tobago

• Enrol by endorsement, after careful scrutiny and completion of all persons trained overseas, seeking Enrolment as an Enrolled Nursing Assistant in Trinidad and Tobago.

• Re-Register/Enrol by annual renewal, all Nurses, Midwives and Nursing Assistants.

A person whose name is on a Register or the Roll of the Nursing Council of Trinidad and Tobago is eligible to practise the profession in that area(s) of registration/enrolment.

3.    DISCIPLINE

    Exercises disciplinary control by way of imposition of fines, suspension or cancellation     of registration/enrolment, upon documentary proof to the satisfaction of Council of:-

1. Professional dishonesty;

2. Negligence or incompetence in the performance of duty;

3. A habit or illness rendering the individual unfit to practise;

4. Conduct that does not conform to the generally recognized standard of the     profession, or that is unbecoming of a nurse/midwife/nursing assistant;

5. Wilful refusal to obey a lawful order given in the course of his professional duty;     or

6. Fraud or misrepresentation in obtaining registration/enrolment for himself or     some other person…

1.  EXAMINATIONS

The Council is not an employing agency for nursing and midwifery personnel.  Contravention of ethical, moral or legal codes of behaviour are acted upon by the Council on receipt of adequate written information.

Responsibilities of the T&T Nursing Council

TO the Public of Trinidad and Tobago:

Responsibilities of the T&T Nursing Council cont’d

Changes to the composition of the Council

Six persons appointed by the minister as follows:

Nine persons elected as follows:

Changes to the Nurses and midwifery Act of the Council

FOR THE FIRST TIME

What the nursing Council is not