The Nursing Programme seeks to develop professional nurses who will:
Demonstrate knowledge in:
- Applied and human sciences
- 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
- Nursing leadership and management
- National health care policy
- Emerging local and global health issues
- Research and evidence-based nursing
Demonstrate skills in:
- 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
- providing patient-centred and holistic care with caring behaviours
- 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
- communicating effectively with clients and families, professional colleagues, doctors, and other health care providers
- working collaboratively in a health care team as a professional nurse
- leading and managing as a charge nurse
- guiding and fostering good clinical environment for nursing students and other support staff who work under nursing supervision
- thinking critically and committing to self-directed learning
- carrying out simple nursing research project or participating in health-related research
- providing evidence-based nursing practice