Background of Arua School of Nursing
Background and History of Arua School of Comprehensive Nursing and Midwifery
Arua School of Comprehensive Nursing is a Government founded health training institution. It is located 530 kilometers from Kampala in North Western Region (Nile) of Uganda, in Arua City within. The School was established in 1972 to train 20 Enrolled Nurses and 20 midwives. In 2001, the course was converted to Enrolled Comprehensive Nursing Course for the award of a Certificate in comprehensive Nursing, and this has continued up to date. This was inline with the Government policy to train a holistic Nurse in the fulfillment of Primary Health Care goals. In 2009 the School also started to train Extension in Diploma comprehensive Nursing, General Nursing and Midwifery.
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About Arua School Of Comprehensive Nursing
The Arua School of Comprehensive Nursing is a Government founded health training institution. In 2001, the course was converted to Enrolled Comprehensive Nursing Course for the award of a Certificate in comprehensive Nursing, and this has continued up to date. This was inline with the Government policy to train a holistic Nurse in the fulfillment of Primary Health Care goals. In 2009 the School also started to train Extension in Diploma comprehensive Nursing, General Nursing and Midwifery.
MISSION: To train Comprehensive Nurses and Midwives to provide high quality services for sustainable socioeconomic development.
VALUES: The core values of the School include; Transparency, Efficiency, Effectiveness, Professionalism, Commitment, maintaining discipline and Integrity.
OWNERSHIP: Arua School of Comprehensive Nursing is a Uganda Government owned Health Training Institution under the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and sports.
School Programmes
The Schoool runs a two and half years Comprehensive Nursing program for the award of Certificate in Comprehensive Nursing and also in Midwifery over the same span of time. The School also runs upgrading courses of one and half years for the award of Diploma in Comprehensive Nursing, Diploma in Nursing and Diploma in Midwifery Regular and two years Diploma in Midwifery E-learning.
The Course exposes students to all areas of learning which includes; Community, Medical, Surgical, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and General Nursing, Midwifery, Nursing/Health Service Management, Microbiology, Sociology, Psychology, Computer and Research. All these are taught in classrooms, clinical areas and community fieldworks
- Diploma in Midwifery
- Diploma in Comprehensive Nursing
- Certificate in Enrolled Comprehensive Nursing
