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School of Nursing, Health and Medical Technologies

COSTAATT’s nursing department is committed to student success. Our programmes are designed to provide instruction in the knowledge and skills needed for the practice of professional Nursing and Midwifery. The programs are comprehensive and prepare the student to care for patients with complex medical conditions. Students learn about health promotion, patient care management and the prevention of illness prevention in unique theory and practice-based environments. They acquire abilities of research methods, critical thinking, creativity, leadership, ethical practice and innovation. The programme utilizes evidence-based education and skills training at the international standard. Students learn values which promotes advocacy for patients, maintenance of dignity, alleviation of patient suffering, early diagnosis and early treatment of individuals, families and communities.

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Department of Health and Medical Technologies (HMT)

The Department of Health and Medical Technologies (HMT) is committed to producing graduates who are competent, entry-level, allied healthcare professionals in radiography, medical laboratory technology, pharmacy assisting, phlebotomy and sonography for midwives. These programmes are delivered by way of didactic, practical and internship or practicum courses primarily through competency-based teaching and learning strategies.

Practical courses are administered – contemporaneously with the matching didactic courses – at the College’s multiscience laboratories. Through practical courses students learn to manoeuvre up-to-date instruments, employ instrumentation to conduct practical exercises, develop technical competencies and demonstrate learning of the matching instructional courses.

Internship and clinical practicum courses are administered in laboratories of approved public and private healthcare facilities except for students pursuing the pharmacy assisting programme. For those students, clinical internship courses are administered at approved public and private pharmacies. In internship and clinical practicum courses, students receive, inter alia other technical skills, relevant hands-on training on state-of-the-art instruments while performing diagnostic analyses on live patients or real patients’ samples. During and after the rigor of the internship and clinical practicum courses, students are graded via competency-based assessments in which they are required to demonstrate – in addition to comprehensive technical competencies – their knowledge and skills gained from the didactic, practical and internship or clinical practicum courses. Students who meet the graduation requirement emerge ready for the world of work and are therefore able to perform their responsibilities with little or no supervision.