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KUCT rolls out BSc Nursing programme

Ever dynamic with eyes cast on the future of a healthy nation, the management of Kimathi University College of Technology has given a nod to the rolling out of a Bachelor of Nursing programme. Thirst for higher education among school leavers and those already in employment has been on its pick in the recent past and the latest addition to the university’s wide range of degree courses will be a shot in the arm for those in quest for acquisition of superior qualifications in Health Sciences.

“ The journey to crafting an elaborate curriculum for this programme has been a long and bumpy one”, says KUCT’s medical officer of health in-charge of the institution’s health clinic, Dr. Gachathi Wanjema. Young and energetic, Dr. Wanjema goes down in the annals of the university’s history as having laid the ground for the programme.

In line with its vision which espouses quality education, the university brought together a team of highly qualified and experienced medics to piece together an elaborate curriculum for the programme guided by parameters set by the Nursing Council. There is no room for experimentation when it comes to the lives of human beings and that’s why the curriculum is detailed, couched with firm theoretical and practical framework.


To begin with, the BSC Nursing degree is designed to equip nurses with Diploma level training with the knowledge skills and attitudes to provide leadership in professional nursing practice, education, health care administration and participation in research. It will further enable the graduates to develop and integrate critical thinking and problem solving skills into the practice of nursing.

Key resource persons in crafting the curriculum were Prof. James Mwenda of the Aga Khan Hospital, Mrs Edwina Siaga of the Great Lakes University and KUCT principal, Prof. P. N. Kioni. The exercise, which took about four months, was coordinated by the office of the Registrar, academic Affairs, which also provided the secretariat.

The university will be working closely with the Provincial General hospital, Nyeri where students pursuing the degree programme will be having practical sessions and the main campus for theories. A team of medical gurus is already in place for this onerous task of churning out well trained manpower to fill the yawning gap in this critical sector.

The curriculum will be reviewed periodically to reflect changing needs and technological advancement. The degree course shall extend for a period of not less than seven semesters of sixteen weeks each and the total number of lecture hours shall not be less than 540 per semester.

So Nurses out there the ball is squarely on your court. Here is a life’s chance to upgrade yourselves professionally. Remember it is not where you start out but the decisions you make about where you are determined to end up that matter.