The main goal of the ND/HND Nursing programme is to prepare competent, skilled, polyvalent Nurse practitioners, versatile midwives and professionally knowledgeable public health Nurses who will use problem-solving skills in providing safe, acceptable, effective and affordable quality health services to meet the health needs of individuals, families and communities at all levels of care.
ND/HND Nursing
The main objective of the movement of Nursing Education into Colleges of Nursing in collaboration with National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) is to ensure that Nursing and Midwifery education in Nigeria, evolve in line with the National Policy on Education and the contemporary system of education in Nigeria. This is in order to give legal backing by the Federal Government to Nursing institutions for the award of ACADEMIC CERTIFICATES to Nursing graduates.
The ND/HND Nursing programme has been designed to allow for seamless academic progression of graduates along the already existing system of education in the country. It also takes cognizance of the new scheme of service for Nurses in Nigeria approved by the National Council of Establishment in 2016.
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About ND/HND Nursing Programme
The ND/HND Nursing is a four-year programme i.e 2 years for ND and 2 years for HND. Students starts with ND Nursing programme which is a non-terminal programme.
The ND Nursing graduates with minimum CGPA of 2.5 (Lower Credit) will then proceed for HND Nursing. Indexing shall be at the beginning of first semester of ND II. Students shall participate in Supervised Clinical Work Experience (SCWE) during the programme.
The SCWEs would be in two parts of eight weeks each. The first part of SCWE shall be between the end of ND I, while the second part shall be between the end of ND II. Stipend for SCWE shall be paid through Industrial Training Fund (ITF).
The SCWE shall be graded on a pass or fail basis. Where a student has satisfied all other requirements of the programme BUT FAILED SCWEs, he/she may only be allowed to repeat another four months SCWEs at his/own expenses.
Council’s Professional Exam for General Nursing shall be after successful completion of HND 1 Nursing. However, graduates of HND Nursing programme are required to sit for Council’s professional exam in either of the two options of specialization, namely: Midwifery for registration and licensing as Registered Midwife (RM) and Public Health Nursing for registration and licensing as Registered Public Health Nurse (RPHN).
HND graduates shall proceed for one-year mandatory Supervised Clinical Experience (Attachment) in an approved health facilities or institution and after successful completion of the one-year mandatory supervised clinical attachment, graduates shall be mobilized for a one year National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).
Duration of Training
• The National Diploma (ND) in nursing is a non terminal two (2) years programme which consists of four (4) semesters of classroom, clinical and laboratory learning experiences.
• It also includes 4months of supervised clinical work experience scheme (SCWES) which shall take place at the end of the second semester of the first year.
• Each semester shall be of 17 weeks duration made up of 15 contact weeks of teaching (lectures, tutorial, practical sessions etc) and 2 weeks for examination.
ND/HND Nursing Program
Entry Requirements
The minimum entry requirement into the ND General Nursing programme is five (5) 'O' Level credit passes in Mathematics, English Language, Physics, Chemistry and Biology (WASC/SSCE/GCE/NECO and NATEB) at no more than two (2) sittings. Admission is through JAMB (UMTE) and a post UMTE examination conducted in the college. The cut off JAMB
Certification and Licencing
The institution shall award the National Diploma (Nursing) certificate to candidates who successfully completed and passed the prescribed continuous assessment, examinations, client care study and the Supervised Clinical Work Experience. Such candidates should have completed a minimum of between 77 to 80 semester credit units.
However, the ND certificate shall not be awarded to the student until the successful completion of the HND Nursing programme