|

Diploma in Mental health & psychiatry nursing – requirements and campuses

ByKen

A diploma in mental health and psychiatry nursing is a three year nursing course offered at KMTC with a specility in Mental health and psychiatry.

The first year and second year first semester covers the regular nursing practice while second year first semester and third year offers comprehensive training in mental health, mental illnesses prevention, mental illness diagnosis, psychiatric nursing, and more.

To be eligible for enrollment into the course, you need to have a KCSE mean grade of C plain or above, C plain in english or Kiswahili, C plain in Biology, and C minus in either chemistry, physics, or mathematics.

Holders of a certificate in Kenya Enrolled community health nursing are also eligible.

KMTC campuses offering mental health and psychiatry nursing

The course is currently offered in KMTC muranga campus and KMTC port reitz campus Mombasa.

Modules/Units

Year 1 Semester 1

  1. COM 1102: Communication and Counselling
  2. Nutrition
  3. Psychology
  4. Environmental Health
  5. Trauma, Emergency and Basic Life Support
  6. Reproductive Health
  7. HIV/AIDS
  8. Anatomy and Physiology
  9. Fundamentals of Nursing I
  10. Applied communication in nursing
  11. Microbiology & Immunology

Year 1 Semester 2

  1. Immunizations
  2. Pharmacology I
  3. Special Procedures
  4. Gender and Sexual Health
  5. Medical Surgical Nursing I
  6. Fundamentals of Nursing II
  7. Family Planning
  8. Obstetric Nursing
  9. Neonatal Nursing
  10. Gynecology
  11. Community Health Nursing 1

Year 2 Semester 1

  1. Pharmacology II
  2. Teaching and Learning Methodology
  3. Research Methodology
  4. PAEDIATRIC/IMCI/ETAT NURSING
  5. MEDICAL SURGICAL NURSING III
  6. MEDICAL SURGICAL NURSING II
  7. Oncology, Palliative and Home based care
  8. Peri-Operative Nursing
  9. Communicable and Vector Borne Diseases
  10. Epidemiology and Demography
  11. Critical Care Nursing

Year 2 Semester 2

  1. Social Anthropology
  2. Interpersonal Relationship
  3. Therapeutic Approach 1
  4. Mental Health/Psychiatric Nursing
  5. Psychology II
  6. Health Systems Management
  7. Social Anthropology
  8. Interpersonal Relationship
  9. Therapeutic Approach 1
  10. Mental Health/Psychiatric Nursing
  11. Psychology II
  12. Health Systems Management

Year 3 Semester 2

  1. Community Mental Health
  2. Psychiatric Nursing II
  3. Therapeutic approaches

Similar Posts

|

Diploma in Nursing (Midwifery) requirements & campuses

ByKen

A diploma in Kenya registered nursing and midwifery is a three year nursing course that offers core nursing training with a speciality in midwifery. They assist women in labour wards and during delivery, prenatal and postpartum checkups, family planning education and awareness, and general newborn care. The entry requirements for the course are: Campuses offering…

diploma in registered community health nursing
|

KMTC Requirements for Diploma in community health nursing and Campuses

ByKen

The Diploma in Kenya Registered Community Health Nursing is a three-year diploma course offered at the Kenya Medical Training College. Its core focus is holistic nursing care, with an emphasis on community health nursing (Community-based care), disease prevention, and primary health care delivery. In the first 2025 KUCCPS placement cycle, education CS revealed that diploma…

Diploma in nutrition and dietetics requirements & campuses

ByKen

A diploma in nutrition and dietetics is a three-year course aimed at training highly qualified community nutritional technologists and technicians in managing and treating nutritional disorders, malnutrition, assessing patients’ dietary needs, educating the public on matters of nutrition and more. As a nutritionist and dietitian, you can work as a clinical nutritionist in hospitals, clinics,…

Diploma in Orthopaedic technology requirements & campuses

ByKen

A Diploma in orthopaedic technology is a three year course offered in the department of orthopaedic technology. The goal of this course is to train competent Orthopaedic technologists skilled in designing and fitting orthopaedic appliances i.e prosthetics, applying, adjusting, monitoring, and removal of casts from patients with injured/fractured bones, assisting orthopaedic surgeons during minor orthopaedic…

Diploma in medical engineering requirements and campuses

ByKen

A diploma in medical engineering is three year course designed to equip future medical engineers with theoratical and practical skills in repair, maintenance, management, and designing of medical equipements. The course covers modules in clinical engineering, mathematics, electronics, electrical engineering, Computer Aided Design (CAD). Find all modules/units covered in the modules section. KMTC Requirements for…

Diploma in radiography and medical imaging requirements and campuses

ByKen

A diploma in radiography and medical imaging is a three-year program that trains and equips future radiographers with the theoretical and practical skills required to understand the mechanism of medical imaging equipment/machines, as well as use them to produce reliable and accurate images of the body that help doctors make a diagnosis, treat diseases, and…

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *