KNUST expands programmes to provide training in nursing, midwifery
The management of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) as part of an effort to expand its programmes has upgraded the Department of Nursing to the School of Nursing and Midwifery.
The Vice-Chancellor of KNUST at the 10th Graduation Ceremonies for the Ministry of Health Training Institutions said the move is to provide professional training for students and build capacities of practising nurses and midwives to provide quality care to patients.
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The Kumasi-based Science and Technology University now has four departments – Public Health Nursing, Midwifery, Nursing, as well as Emergency and Critical Care Nursing.
She said admission into Bachelor of Science top-up programmes for all diploma holders would now take two years instead of three years and urged diploma holders in health care practice to take advantage of the opportunity to ensure continuous learning and professional development.
Prof Mrs Dickson emphasizing quality education, said the KNUST upheld the highest standards in preparing the professionals it trained with 21st century employable skills, and was therefore, expected the same from her affiliate institutions as the school worked to achieve the mandate.
In this way, she noted, professionals, including health workers, could serve humanity in their most vulnerable state, adding that, the health profession was a calling to serve, alleviate suffering and bring hope to the sick and the helpless.
“The healthcare profession demands both technical expertise and a very profound sense of empathy which requires resilience in the face of myriad of challenges confronting healthcare delivery.
This notwithstanding, we are confident that the kind of rigorous training you have been exposed to, will help you to be up to the task in contributing effectively to enhance and improve the healthcare ecosystem in a more positive and inspirational way”, she said as quoted by Ghana News Agency.