The four-Twelve months undergraduate programme targets excessive college graduates and is designed to equip college students with the clinical competencies, serious thinking, and leadership abilities required in up to the moment nicely being methods
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Aga Khan College (AKU) in Uganda has launched a brand unique Bachelor of Nursing Science – Direct Entry programme, aiming to deal with serious nicely being crew shortages and put collectively nurses for an evolving healthcare landscape shaped by demographic shifts, technological advances, and power gaps in provider provide.
Permitted by the Uganda National Council for Increased Training (UNCHE), the four-Twelve months undergraduate programme targets excessive college graduates and is designed to equip college students with the clinical competencies, serious thinking, and leadership abilities required in up to the moment nicely being methods.
“This unique programme is a response to the rising query for nicely-expert nurses who are no longer supreme competent clinicians but additionally in a position to contributing to public nicely being and policy,” stated Professor Eunice Ndirangu, Dean of the School of Nursing and Midwifery, East Africa.
Uganda continues to face an absence of expert nicely being mavens, in particular in rural and underserved areas, primarily primarily based totally on recent nicely being sector performance stories. Nurses and midwives dangle up the backbone of the country’s healthcare crew, but training gaps and tiny get entry to to training for early-profession mavens persist.
The AKU programme, to be delivered on the university’s unique campus in Nakawa, Kampala, will admit 50 college students per cohort. The curriculum emphasizes affected person-centred care, interprofessional collaboration, evidence-primarily primarily based mostly educate, and nicely being methods enchancment. It additionally integrates digital nicely being instruments, at the side of training in electronic scientific data, telehealth, and nicely being files administration.
“The inclusion of informatics and emerging technologies is required,” stated Dr. Joseph Mwizerwa, Affiliate Vice Provost at AKU Uganda.
“As Uganda scales up digital nicely being infrastructure, nurses must tranquil be though-provoking to feature interior these methods effectively and ethically.”
The unique programme complements AKU’s present piece-time degree choices for working nurses and midwives. To this point, over 1,400 nurses and midwives dangle graduated from AKU programmes in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, pretty a pair of whom now preserve leadership roles in hospitals, authorities agencies, and tutorial institutions.
“Nurses expert under this programme will abet as serious links between communities and nicely being amenities, in particular the build nicely being get entry to is tiny,” Mwizerwa stated.
Admissions for the foremost intake are launch by August, with applications invited from across East Africa. The university expects graduates to aid Uganda’s national nicely being priorities, at the side of maternal and child nicely being, non-communicable diseases, and pandemic preparedness
