Rivers State College of Nursing Sciences, Port Harcourt
Welcome Message
Welcome to Rivers State College of Nursing Sciences, Port Harcourt! We are dedicated to training the next generation of healthcare professionals with the highest standards of nursing education, clinical practice, and research. Our institution fosters academic excellence, innovation, and compassionate care in healthcare delivery.
The Rivers State College of Nursing Sciences, Port Harcourt, was established to bridge the gap in quality healthcare education. With a legacy of excellence, the college has produced outstanding nurses and midwives serving in various healthcare institutions nationwide.
Our Vision
- The vision of the College is to be centre of excellence in Nursing Education.
- To train competent and polyvalent nurses that are research oriented, and nurses that function independently, and in collaboration with other members of the health team and related sectors in planning, delivering and evaluating health care services.
- Be ready to conform to new changes in nursing education.
Our Mission
To provide a standardized educational programme that will enable the production of competent nursing graduates who can provide quality health care services and are capable of functioning in any area of the health management system in Nigeria and the diaspora.
Core
Values
- Excellence
- Integrity
- Compassion
- Innovation
- Professionalism
Philisophy of the College
The curriculum is based on the philosophy that the essential purpose of nursing is to achieve better health for the individual and the community.
Such nursing services, as outlined in the philosophy above are based on the following premise:
Man is a biologically, spiritually, socially and psychologically indivisible unit whose needs are an inherent part of his nature and therefore is affected by factors within his environment.
Nursing is primarily concerned with human life, the quality of the health of the individual, family group or community. Nursing is directed towards the achievement of better health and consequently as a practice profession, must be firmly based on knowledge derived from the biological, physical and behavioural sciences relevant to the understanding of human nature.
Health is an integral part of the overall development of man. Factors which influence health are socio-cultural, biological and environmental in nature.
Health care with emphasis on Primary Health Care is fundamentally related to the availability, accessibility and affordability or both health and socio-economic resources.
Nurses as human being exists and share the same nature, humaneness and basic needs as the client/patient. The nurse practitioner has acquired nursing knowledge skill, attitude and ethics to provide safe and effective health care.
The client is capable of reasoning and he possesses basic ideas, beliefs and values which guide his actions. He is an active partner in the nursing care process and participates in crucial decision making regarding his care and environment.
Nursing education is a systematic direction and guidance of the student in an institution approved by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria.
Continuing Education as an integral part of Nursing Education, is a continuous process of educational development aimed at enhancing professional growth, competency and efficiency in achieving effective health care at all levels. Knowledge should be updated through self directed learning and the regular participation in continuing education programmes.
Objective of the Programme
By the end of the HND Nursing Education programme, the students should be able to:
Apply the knowledge of biological, behavioural and nursing sciences in assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating nursing care education programme and practice.
Broad Objectives of the Programme:
By the end of the HND Nursing Education programme, the students should be able to:
- Apply the knowledge of biological, behavioural and nursing sciences in assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating nursing care.
- Utilize the nursing process in providing comprehensive nursing care to individuals and families in the community.
- Establish positive working relationship with individuals, family and community and motivate towards self-reliance in matters of health protection, promotion, maintenance and rehabilitation, function independently and in collaboration with other members of the health team and related sectors in the planning, delivering and evaluating health care workers in all clinical settings.
- Supervise the clinical experience of nursing and allied health workers in all clinical setting.
- Contribute to research by conducting and participating in projects and findings geared towards improving health care services and nursing education.
- Apply the principles of primary health care, in providing comprehensive continuous and personalized care in homes, Colleges and health care institutions.
- Apply management principles in the optimum, utilization of human and material resources for health care delivery.
- Update knowledge and maintain professional growth through participation in continuing education programmes.
- Display positive attitudinal behaviour in client/community care and amongst other health team members.
