Nursing

The Nursing Programme seeks to develop professional nurses who will:

Demonstrate knowledge in:

1. Applied and human sciences
2. Nursing science focusing on nursing process, holistic nursing, total patient care, community-oriented nursing and in-depth knowledge required for making clinical nursing judgment in common, simple and complex health situations of clients across the life-span and across health-illness continuum
3. Nursing leadership and management
4. National health care policy
5. Emerging local and global health issues
6. Research and evidence-based nursing

Demonstrate skills in:

1. using the nursing process with in-depth knowledge based on clinical skills and critical thinking skills in caring for patients with common, simple, and complex health problems across the life-span and across health-illness continuum in order to promote, maintain, and restore health
2. providing patient-centred and holistic care with caring behaviours
3. carrying out knowledge-based and community-oriented nursing practice with positive attitudes, ethical behaviours and accountability in accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s rules, regulations and code of professional standards
4. communicating effectively with clients and families, professional colleagues, doctors, and other health care providers
5. working collaboratively in a health care team as a professional nurse
6. leading and managing as a charge nurse
7. guiding and fostering good clinical environment for nursing students and other support staff who work under nursing supervision
8. thinking critically and committing to self-directed learning
9. carrying out simple nursing research project or participating in health-related research
10. providing evidence-based nursing practice