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Diploma in Nursing (Midwifery) requirements & campuses

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:

  1. A KCSE mean grade of C plain
  2. C plain or above in English/Kiswahili
  3. C plain in biology
  4. C minus in either physics, mathematics, or chemistry

Campuses offering diploma in kenya registered nursing with midwifery

The course is offered in the following campuses;

  • KMTC Homabay
  • KMTC Kakamega
  • KMTC Kombewa
  • KMTC Mosoriot

Modules/Units

Year 1 Semester 1

  1. Surgical Nursing Placement 1
  2. Medical Nursing Placement 1
  3. Skills Lab
  4. Behavioral Sciences
  5. BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES
  6. Fundamentals of Nursing
  7. Anatomy and Physiology
  8. Communication

Year 1 Semester 2

  1. Surgical Nursing Placement II
  2. Medial Nursing Placement II
  3. Skills Lab Practicum
  4. Palliative Care
  5. Perioperative Nursing
  6. Renal and GU Nursing
  7. Oral, Alimentary, Biliary Nursing
  8. Immunization
  9. Community Health Nursing I
  10. IMCI
  11. Pediatrics Nursing
  12. Specialized Procedures
  13. Trauma and Emergency
  14. Pharmacology 1

Year 2 Semester 1

  1. Operating Theatre(OT) Placement
  2. Psychiatry Nursing Placement
  3. Surgical Nursing II Placement
  4. Paediatrics II Nursing Placement
  5. Medical Nursing III Placement
  6. Leadership and Management
  7. Research
  8. Human Nutrition
  9. Health Promotion
  10. Mental Health/Psychiatry
  11. Geriontological Nursing
  12. Dermatology
  13. Ophthalmic Nursing
  14. Ear, Nose and Throat Nursing
  15. Neurological Nursing
  16. Orthopaedic Nursing
  17. Endocrinology Nursing
  18. OPD / CAS
  19. Paediatrics I

Year 2 Semester 2

  1. Labour Ward Placement
  2. Postnatal ward Placement
  3. Antenatal Clinic Placement
  4. Community Midwifery
  5. Voluntary Male Medical circumcision (VMMC)
  6. Normal Midwifery
  7. Pillars of Maternal and New borne Health
  8. Reproductive health I

Year 3 Semester 1

  1. MCH/FP
  2. Labour ward II placement
  3. Newborn unit 1placement
  4. Gynecology ward placement
  5. Antenatal ward placement
  6. Communicable and Vector borne diseases
  7. Community Health II
  8. Teaching Methodology
  9. Special issues in midwifery
  10. Obstetrics procedures and operations
  11. Abnormal Midwifery
  12. Gender and Sexuality
  13. Reproductive Health II

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