Kumasi Nurses and Midwifery Training School explained

Nursing and Midwifery Training College, Kumasi
Other Name:KNMTC
Motto:Enter to learn, Go out to serve
Established:1957
Type:Public Tertiary Health Institution
Academic Affiliations:Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Principal:Joana Owusu Danso
City:Kumasi
State:Ashanti Region
Country:Ghana
Former Names:Nurses' and Midwifery Training College, Kumasi

The Kumasi Nurses' Training College, now Kumasi Nursing and Midwifery Training College is public tertiary health institution in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana.[1] [2] The college is in the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly.[3] The school is located at the premises of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi.

Brief history

Kumasi Nursing and Midwifery Training College was founded in 1957 by the Medical Mission Sisters of the Kumasi Church.[4] The school offers two Basic Diploma Programs, Nursing and midwifery. Affiliated to the second biggest health facility in the country, the college provides high standard theoretical and clinical coursework in all the aspects of diploma standard general nursing and midwifery. The activities of the institution is supervised by the Ministry of Health. The college now awards direct diploma Diploma in Nursing and Midwifery after students from the institution have successfully completed a three-year training programme. The institution is accredited by the National Accreditation Board.[5] The Nurses and Midwifery Council (NMC) is the main body that regulates the activities, curriculum and examination of the school. The council's mandate Is enshrined under section 4(1) of N.R.C.D 117.[6]

Academic programmes

The programmes offered in this institution are divided into three:

Basic programmes

Post basic programmes

Certificate programmes

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Polytechnics in Ghana. www.ghanaweb.com. 11 August 2011.
  2. Web site: List of Nursing Training Colleges. www.ghananursing.org. 11 August 2011. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120330152454/http://ghananursing.org/training-colleges.htm. 30 March 2012.
  3. Web site: Ghana Schools Online . www.ghanaschoolsonline.com . 11 August 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110918191614/http://www.ghanaschoolsonline.com/intermediate/ntc.cfm?levelID=3&CFID=22218809&CFTOKEN=86700566 . 18 September 2011 .
  4. Web site: Welcome to the Kumasi Girl's Nursing Training College. Kumasi Girl's Nursing Training College. 19 August 2014.
  5. Web site: Public Nurses' Training Colleges 2. www.nab.gov.gh. 11 August 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110822231339/http://nab.gov.gh/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=67&Itemid=191. 22 August 2011. dead.
  6. Web site: GHANA TO TRAIN MORE NURSES FOR HER NEEDS AND EXPORT. www.modernghana.com. 11 August 2011.
  7. Web site: Kumasi Nurses' Training College. Ghana Schools Online. 19 August 2014.

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