Background: nursing and midwifery academic and service director is established following the establishment of AMU-TCSP. Department of Nursing was established in 2008, and department of midwifery in 2009. It delivers both academics and clinical service.
Departments:
1. department of Comprehensive Nursing
2. Department of Midwifery
3. Department of Adult Health Nursing
4. Nursing and midwifery care service department
Programs
1. Undergraduate program
2. Postgraduate program (MSC)
Undergraduate Program
1. BSC in nursing
2. BSC in midwifery
Postgraduate program (MSC)
1. Master in adult health nursing
2. Master in maternal and reproductive health nursing
3. Master in neonatal health nursing
4. Master in pediatrics and child health nursing
5. Maser in clinical midwifery
Midwifery department
Vision, Mission, and Program Educational Outcome of the Program
The Vision of the midwifery program: To be a center of excellence in midwifery education and services in Ethiopia and become a well-recognized program in Africa in Teaching and Learning, Research, and Community Engagement by 2030
Mission: To train competent, compassionate, respectful, and caring midwives who can provide holistic sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, adolescent and youth health (SRMNCAYH) services at community and health facility levels with focus on health promotion and disease prevention.
Program goals: To equip midwives with a complex mix of knowledge, skills, and attitudes, and prepare competent graduate midwives for their expected professional roles in the broader society.
Program Strategic Objectives [PSO]
- PSO1: Implement an evidence-based, competency-driven curriculum that ensures midwives are equipped with
essential clinical, leadership, and communication skills to provide high-quality SRMNCAYH services. - PSO2: Integrate human-centered approaches into midwifery education and practice to ensure midwives provide
respectful, culturally appropriate, and compassionate care. - PSO3: Expand midwifery education to emphasize community engagement, health promotion, and disease
prevention strategies at both facility and community levels. - PSO4: Strengthen midwifery research capacity to generate locally relevant evidence that informs policy and
improves SRMNCAYH service delivery. - PSO5:Equip midwives with leadership, policy, and advocacy skills to influence health system strengthening and
promote midwifery’s role in achieving national and global maternal and child health targets
Program Strategies:
- Revise and update the midwifery curriculum based on international best practices and national health priorities.
- Strengthen clinical simulation labs for hands-on training in essential midwifery skills.
- Foster collaboration between midwifery, nursing, public health, and medical students to improve teamwork in
SRMNCAYH services. - Conduct continuous professional development programs for faculty in competency-based education and
innovative teaching methodologies. - Embed RMC principles into midwifery training and practice.
- Include modules on culturally sensitive and patient-centered care in the curriculum.
- Develop training programs emphasizing ethical midwifery care and communication skills.
- Encourage mentorship programs where senior midwives guide students in patient-centered care approaches.
- Strengthen internship and outreach programs in rural and underserved areas.
- Collaborate with local health bureaus, NGOs, and traditional birth attendants to improve midwifery service delivery
- Incorporate preventive health, family planning, and adolescent health topics into the midwifery program.
- Encourage students to engage in maternal and newborn health promotion initiatives within communities.
- Develop a dedicated research hub focusing on maternal and newborn health.
- Train faculty and students in research methodologies, proposal writing, and publication skills.
- Foster joint research projects to strengthen evidence-based practice in midwifery
- Ensure research findings inform policy changes and midwifery education improvements.
- Integrate leadership, governance, and policy courses into the curriculum
- Equip students and faculty with skills to engage in policy dialogue at local and national levels
- Engage in global maternal health forums, conferences, and partnerships to amplify midwifery’s role.
- Establish a network of midwifery graduates who mentor and support current students in leadership pathways.
Program Educational Outcome (PEO)
After five years of graduation, the program will be able to:
- Ensure that graduates demonstrate proficiency in providing holistic, evidence-based care with a focus on maternal, neonatal, child, and adolescent health problems.
- Foster a culture of research within the department by encouraging faculty and students to engage in research initiatives that address local health challenges and contribute to the evidence base for midwifery practice, enhancing the quality of care provided.
- Establish partnerships with local communities and health organizations to implement outreach programs that promote health education, awareness, and disease prevention, ensuring that midwifery students gain practical experience in community settings
- Cultivate Leadership and Advocacy Skills, empowering graduates to take on leadership roles in healthcare settings and advocate for policies that improve maternal and child health outcomes, contributing to the overall health system.
Program learning outcomes (PLO)
Up on graduation, the midwives will be able to:
PLO 1: Apply knowledge of biomedical science to provide basic professional midwifery care, manage medical and surgical conditions, and provide appropriate care for mentally ill patients in the health institutions and in the community
PLO 2: Provide new-born care, and manage, maternal, neonatal, child, and adolescent sexual reproductive health problems, and give individualized midwifery care with respect to ethical, legal practice, and cultural context of midwifery practice
PLO 3: Implement a structured clinical assessment framework that evaluates students' competencies in maternal, neonatal, child, and adolescent health
PLO 4: Integrate ethical principles, and communication skills into the curriculum to cultivate compassion, respectful, and caring midwifery practice
PLO 5: Apply principles of health promotion and disease prevention interventions to prevent, assess, diagnose and manage priority problems for individuals, groups, and communities.
PLO 6: Order different investigations and interpret it accordingly to reach in the possible patient problems and involve other disciplines for better management of the case.
PLO 7: Establish structured research collaboration initiatives that encourage faculty and students to partner with local health organizations and communities
PLO 8: Equip students with the necessary skills to engage in meaningful research initiatives, enhancing their capacity to address local health issues effectively
PLO 9: Establish collaborative outreach programs with local communities and health organizations that focus on health education and disease prevention.
PLO 10: Implement a structured feedback mechanism to evaluate the effectiveness of outreach programs and community engagement efforts.
PLO 11: Incorporating theoretical knowledge and practical applications courses that include training policy analysis, effective communication, and strategies for influencing healthcare policies that improve maternal and child health outcomes.
PLO 12: Organize regular community engagement activities that provide midwifery students with opportunities to practice leadership and advocacy skills in real-world settings in collaboration with healthcare organizations and community stakeholders
Graduate Competencies
To achieve the midwifery program learning outcomes, critical review of existing local and international documents on learning outcomes (including existing BSc curriculum, the scope of practice document, ICM recommendations for such training), the core (essential) competencies a midwife student must demonstrate at the end of graduation are defined. The core competencies are organized into thirteen domains or themes:
- Social, epidemiologic & cultural context of midwifery practice
- Pre-conception, reproductive and adolescent health Care
- Family planning services
- Midwifery Care during pregnancy
- Midwifery Care during Labor and Delivery/ birth
- Postpartum Midwifery Care
- Midwifery Care for New-borns and children
- Midwifery Care for Gynecologic patients
- Organizational Management & Leadership
- Research and evidence-based midwifery care
- Interpersonal relationship and communication
- Professional, ethical & legal Midwifery practice
- Basic midwifery care
Comprehensive Nursing department
Vision and mission of comprehensive nursing program
Vision
Comprehensive Nursing aspires to be a leading centre of excellence in nursing education, research, and practice, training compassionate, competent, and innovative nurses who deliver high-quality care to diverse populations and drive positive health outcomes for individuals and communities by 2030.
Mission
Producing professional nurses who deliver compassionate, evidence-based care, improving health outcomes, advancing the nursing profession through research and scholarship, and strengthening community partnerships.
Comprehensive nursing program has the following educational objectives:
- Deliver compassionate and patient-centered care
- Apply evidence-based practices
- Improve health outcome
- Engage in research and scholarship
- Lead and advocate for the nursing profession
- Foster community and inter-professional partnerships
The program’s learning outcomes are to prepare competent graduate nurses who can:
- Provide high-quality comprehensive nursing care ethically and professionally at the individual, family, and community levels and various healthcare settings
- Manage common communicable and non-communicable diseases
- Manage common MCH, RH, emergency, and mental health problems
- Promote and prevent disease in individuals, family and community levels at all levels of healthcare settings
- Lead and manage nursing care services
- Engage in nursing education, research, and advocacy that will improve the nursing profession and services
Contact person
Gesila Endahsaw Yesera (Ass.prof) nursing and midwifery academic and service director
Email:
Phone: +251923858484
Skype: gesila8484@