Department of Nursing

ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT

 

Nursing department was established in response to the national need for nursing manpower development. New challenges being faced in nursing profession today is as a result of technological advancement in client/patient care, emergence of new infectious diseases like Covid-19, rapid social changes and the ever expanding role of the nurse in health institutions. To meet these challenges, advanced academic and clinical training that will equip nurses with sound theoretical knowledge and enhanced professional skills are required. The products of this program will be nurse clinicians equipped to meet the above challenges.

 

Specialties

Community Health Nursing

Maternal and child Health Nursing

Medical Surgical Nursing

Mental Health and Psychiatry Nursing

Nursing department operates above the minimum academic standards of the national universities commission and the university will produce graduates who are at par with their peers from any other part of the world.

The Department of Nursing in Fountain University is one of the four Departments under the College of Basic Medical and Health Sciences (COBMEHS). In line with the Philosophy of the BNSc. Nursing programme, the Department aim to produce highly motivated graduates of high academic standard with adequate clinical exposure who can function adequately in the field of Nursing with a broad based academic professional training and competence that reflect the emphasis on the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria. Therefore, the degree to be awardable within the Department is BNSc.

The resource verification exercise by took place on 07th of December, 2020 by NUC and 23rd December, 2021 by Nursing and midwifery council of Nigeria. Presently, the Department is in her third year of the academic program. Students in the Department are being exposed to different practical experiences in the field of Nursing and are also being groomed on how to give standard and comprehensive feedback to the populace about their discoveries.

University Contact Info

for further enquiries visit

Fountain University , Osogbo
P.M.B 4491, OSUN STATE NIGERIA.

admission@fuo.edu.ng

 

 

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Why Study Here?

Nursing department operates above the minimum academic standards of the national universities commission and the university will produce graduates who are at par with their peers from any other part of the world.

 

The Department aims to produce highly motivated graduates of high academic standard with adequate clinical exposure who can function adequately in the field of Nursing with a broad based academic professional training and competence that reflect the emphasis on the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria. 

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