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The Nursing and Midwifery Training College,
Korle Bu Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) is a public teaching hospital established in 1923 and located in the Ablekuma South District in the Accra Metropolitan District of the Greater Accra Region, Ghana. It is the only public tertiary hospital in t ...
(NMTC Korle-Bu), the premier institution in
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for
nursing education Nursing is a health care profession that "integrates the art and science of caring and focuses on the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and human functioning; prevention of illness and injury; facilitation of healing; and alle ...
, is located in Korle Bu in
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. The establishment of the college in 1945 was supervised by
Agnes Yewande Savage Agnes Yewande Savage (21 February 1906 – 7 September 1964) was a Nigerian-Scottish medical doctor and the first West African woman to train and qualify in orthodox medicine. Savage was the first West African woman to receive a university degre ...
, West Africa's first woman doctor. The college is a
public health Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals". Analyzing the de ...
training institution, and it is supervised by the Ministry of Health, Ghana (MoH). The
Nursing Nursing is a health care profession that "integrates the art and science of caring and focuses on the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and human functioning; prevention of illness and injury; facilitation of healing; and alle ...
and
Midwifery Midwifery is the health science and health profession that deals with pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period (including care of the newborn), in addition to the sexual and reproductive health of women throughout their lives. In many cou ...
Training College, Korle Bu is affiliated with the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and it is accredited by the National Accreditation Board (NAB). The Nursing and Midwifery Council (N&MC), Ghana, is the main body that regulates the activities,
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and
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inations of the college that lead to the award of
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. The council's mandate is derived from part III of the Health Professions Regulatory Bodies Act 2013 (Act 857). Until the passage of this Act, the council operated under NRCD 117 of 1972 and LI 683.


Academics

There are two main programmes run at NMTC Korle-Bu, namely the Registere
General Nursing
(RGN) programme and the Registered Midwifery (RM) programme. There are various departments under each faculty. The departments under the RGN programme include: * Medical-Surgical Nursing *
Public Health Nursing Public health nursing, also known as community health nursing is a nursing specialty focused on public health. The term was coined by Lillian Wald of the Henry Street Settlement, or, Public health nurses (PHNs) or community health nurses "integr ...
* Obstetrics Nursing * Paediatrics Nursing *
Psychiatric Nursing Psychiatric nursing or mental health nursing is the appointed position of a nurse that specialises in mental health, and cares for people of all ages experiencing mental illnesses or distress. These include: neurodevelopmental disorders, schizophr ...
and * Allied Nursing The departments under the RM programme include: * Obstetric Nursing * Medical-Surgical Nursing * Neonatal paediatric Nursing *
Family Planning Family planning is the consideration of the number of children a person wishes to have, including the choice to have no children, and the age at which they wish to have them. Things that may play a role on family planning decisions include marit ...
* Prenatal Nursing * Labour *
Puerperium The postpartum (or postnatal) period begins after childbirth and is typically considered to last for six to eight weeks. There are three distinct phases of the postnatal period; the acute phase, lasting for six to twelve hours after birth; the ...
and * Allied Midwifery


RGN programme

NMTC Korle-Bu's curriculum has continued to evolve in response to the changing health needs of society. The RGN programme is for six semesters, leading to the award of a Diploma in Registered General Nursing. The programme demands a continuous assessment of students throughout the semesters. Students are assessed on their performance in class tests, mid-semester and end of semester examinations in both theory and clinical practice.


RM programme

The Registered Midwifery Programme is a Diploma Programme open only to female students. The RM programme is arranged semester by semester. It is also a six-semester course structure.


Goal

The goal of the college is to produce qualified professionals through excellent teaching, research, and the dissemination of knowledge.


History

The Nursing and Midwifery Training College, Korle Bu, is the premier institution in Ghana for nursing education and was established in 1945.
Agnes Yewande Savage Agnes Yewande Savage (21 February 1906 – 7 September 1964) was a Nigerian-Scottish medical doctor and the first West African woman to train and qualify in orthodox medicine. Savage was the first West African woman to receive a university degre ...
, the first West African woman medical doctor, supervised the establishment of the Nurses' Training School at Korle Bu, where a nurses’ ward is named after her. The college's first batch of trained midwives took their final examination in 1930. Until January 2, 2008, NMTC Korle-Bu operated as separate training institutions, that is, Nurses’ Training College and Midwifery Training School, with two principals. On January 2, 2008, in line with a Ministry of Health Policy, the two institutions were merged with one principal as the administrative head.


References

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