Our Story

The School was established to train professional Nurses after passing the Professional Examination conducted by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria. The School was initially an extension of School of Nursing, Eleyele, Ibadan of the then Western Region, later called Western State before the creation of Ogun State in 1976.  Student-Nurse Trainee who passed the Preliminary Training School (PTS) Course of six Months at Eleyele Ibadan were posted to Abeokuta, State Hospital School of Nursing, Ijaye for the remaining 3 years of Nursing Training.

In January 1976, the School was reopened on Provisional Approval Basis.  On February 13th 1976 the first set of 30 students’ commenced training for a 3 years course as pioneer students of Ogun State.  The School was moved from its old site at State Hospital Ijaye to its permanent site at Idi-Aba. The Building houses School of Nursing and School of Midwifery and provides for the offices of teaching and non-teaching staff.

Our Philosophy 

• Nursing focus is to provide a caring relationship that helps the individual, family and community to achieve optimal level of health throughout life cycle. Nursing focus is to provide a caring relationship that helps the individual, family and community to achieve optimal level of health throughout life cycle.
• Man is biological, spiritual, social and psychological individual unit hence the needs of every man are based on this inherent composite nature.
• That man is holistic therefore his needs are inseparable and are interdependent parts of the whole being.
  Caring is universal value that direct nursing practice. Even though client cannot always be cured, caring is on-going within nurse-client-relationship.
• That the recipient of care is a being capable of reasoning with his own basic ideas, beliefs, and value which guide his actions, therefore can be active partner in the nursing care process and in clinical decision making.
• The individual intrinsic values and worth must be respected.
• Nursing Education is a systematic direction and guidance in achieving excellence in Nursing Training and practice can be achieved through continuous education, nursing research and collaboration with other health professionals.
• That students’ performance during their educational programme will be influenced by the inter-relationship of the students’ socio-cultural background, their self concepts, individual needs motivation to success in life and the prevailing socio-clinical forces in the society. 
• That nursing has identified areas of function in the provision of health care to individual, family and community, therefore the professional nurse must be accountable for the quality of nursing are given.
• That nursing is a science and its basic principle of providing care for the individual, family and community in health and illness must be taught in light of logical analysis of the scientific knowledge and changing needs of the society.