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Nugaal University opened Nursing program in 2013 to alleviate the shortage of health professionals in the country in general and Sool Region specifically.

The main purpose of the undergraduate degree in nursing is to provide an educational program through which the graduates will be prepared to assume responsibility in the primary, secondary and tertiary health care of people as professional nurses. It is expected that graduates are capable of teaching and supervising appropriate nursing and health care in different settings and participate in the administration of nursing service and education.

1.    RATIONALE

This country remain with the highest maternal and child Morbidity and mortality.

 To tackle this problem primary health care strategy is the best entry point.   For this reason, nursing department are the key agents to the implementation of primary health care and expected to bringing optimal change in Health Sector Development Program (HSDP) goals. The program BSc in Nursing remained to be launched and continued for the following reasons.

  • It is somehow difficult currently to produce enough health professionals, because mainly shortage of man power and physical facilities.
  • Lack of effective collaborations of healthcare committed to improving best practices in health promotion, disease prevention, quality, safety and equality.
  • Though the developed world has the best access of human resource, still the brain drain continues from the poor world and without investing anything they get ready made human resource and they utilize them, whereas the poor part of the world after investing too much money through loan from monetary fund and world bank for training, it gets allotted, as well as the population might not get a chance of utilizing their own human resources which is very crucial issue at present.

The number of health professionals in the country, particular nursing is still low despite increase the number of training institutions. In the meantime, this curriculum is being designed for the training of nursing who will serve the vulnerable community since majority of the population is poor and lives in country side. Therefore, the trained nurses would be utilized effectively and efficiently whether there is strict monitoring and close follow up of the teaching and learning process as well as conducive educational environment and better handling of the graduated citizens.

 

VISION

To be a center of excellence in nursing education and health research in the nation

MISSION

Advancing nursing education through class and practical teaching, high caliber research and evidence based training relevant to the field of nursing and to health service provision to the society.

Core Values

  • Social justice, diversity, inclusivity, and civic engagement
  • Respectful, ethical, humanistic, and compassionate care
  • Intellectual curiosity, innovation, and scholarly inquiry
  • Leadership, life-long learning, and excellence in practice.

 

2.    OBJECTIVES

The objectives of the program are to produce competent nursing graduate who can;

  • Provide nursing care for individuals, families and communities following sound scientific ways of nursing processes
  • Demonstrate competence in the skills and techniques of nursing based on concepts and principles from selected areas of physical, biological and behavioural sciences
  • Participate as members of health team in the promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative health care delivery system of the country
  • Demonstrate leadership qualities and decision-making abilities in various situations
  • Recognize the need for continued learning for their personal relations and professional development
  • Demonstrate skills in teaching, management, inter-personal relations and communication

3.    LEARNING OUTCOMES

Learning is an active, continuous, sequential process with concepts, skills and values being constantly re-evaluated and re-organized for use. Learning is facilitated when it:

 

  • takes account of individual needs, circumstance, abilities and learning styles
  • involves active participation by learners who take responsibility for their own learning
  • encourages learners to seek information, evaluate and use it
  • Helps learners to feel respected as independent adults. Students should be encouraged to evaluate their own needs, progress and accept feed-back on their strengths and weaknesses.
  • Learning objectives and course content should be based on defined nursing competencies.
  • Addressing the knowledge, skills and attitudes fundamental to professional nursing.
  • Learning needs to be life-long.
  • The role of the BSc in Nursing institution is to provide an environment that is conducive to learning,
  • To provide a program that reflects professional growth built on competences that enable graduates to cope with national, regional and international health care challenges.

 

4.    CAREER OPPORTUNITIES FOR GRADUATE

A graduate Nursing is expected to:

  • As educators at health Institutions
  • Hospital unit managers
  • Regional health offices managers/staff
  • Hospital Matrons
  • Conduct or coordinate continuing education, and training
  • Perform minor surgical and obstetric procedures
  • Mobilize individuals, families and communities
  • Promote and be engaged in inter-sectorial activities.
  • Conduct and participate on basic and applied health researches.
  • Implement PHC activities
  • Organize a team to prevent and control disaster and emergency situations

 

ELIGIBILITY

Candidates shall be admitted for the Top-up degree, if he/she Fulfils the following requirements:-

  • The candidate should be a qualified Nurse.
  • The minimum education requirement is Diploma in general nursing and High school recognized Institution certificate.
  • Pass both written entry exam, selection of the candidates should be based on the merit of the qualifying examination
  • The candidate shall be medically fit.