The Community Health Nurses Training College is organized into specialized departments, each dedicated to delivering high-quality education and training in specific areas of community health nursing. Our departments work collaboratively to ensure students receive a comprehensive and well-rounded educational experience.
This is the core department of the college, responsible for training students in community health nursing practice. The department focuses on primary health care principles, community diagnosis, health promotion, and disease prevention strategies. Students learn to work with communities to identify health needs and implement interventions that improve population health outcomes.
The department is led by experienced community health nursing educators with extensive field experience in rural and urban health service delivery across Ghana.
The Department of Clinical Nursing provides instruction in clinical nursing skills and medical-surgical nursing. Students gain hands-on experience in hospital settings, learning to provide direct patient care, administer medications, perform clinical assessments, and manage common medical and surgical conditions. The department coordinates clinical placements at partner health facilities.
Students complete clinical rotations at Tamale Teaching Hospital, Tamale Central Hospital, and various health centres across the Northern Region.
The Department of Basic Sciences provides the foundational science education that underpins all nursing practice. Students study anatomy, physiology, microbiology, and other basic medical sciences that form the scientific basis for understanding health and disease processes. This department ensures students have a solid grounding in the biological sciences before advancing to clinical and community health courses.
The department has well-equipped science laboratories for practical demonstrations and experiments in basic medical sciences.
This department focuses on the specialized area of maternal and child health nursing, covering antenatal care, labour and delivery, postnatal care, newborn care, and child health. Students are trained to provide comprehensive care to women during pregnancy and childbirth, and to children from birth through adolescence, with emphasis on the unique health challenges in the northern regions of Ghana.
Students practice at maternity wards, child welfare clinics, and community-based reproductive and child health services.
The Department of Behavioural Sciences covers the psychological and sociological aspects of health and illness. Students learn about health psychology, communication skills, sociology, and mental health. Understanding human behaviour and social determinants of health is essential for community health nurses who work closely with individuals, families, and communities to promote health and well-being.
The department coordinates community outreach programmes and health education campaigns that build students' interpersonal and community engagement skills.
Begin your journey in community health nursing. Applications are now open for the next academic year.
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Post Office Box TL 233, Tamale, Close to Sakasaka Quarters, Northern Region, Ghana