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Academic Programmes August 29, 2026

Bachelor of Science in Nursing

August 29, 20264 min read

Programme Description

The major focus of Bachelor of Science in Nursing programme is to produce graduate professional nurses capable of delivering safe health care in local, regional, and international health care systems. The programme prepares professional general trained nurses with the necessary knowledge, skills and attitude required for the delivery of high quality and culturally sensitive services. The programme starts with the foundation of knowledge in the basic sciences, humanities, and related professional disciplines in the first year followed by the body of related nursing knowledge, skills and attitudes in subsequent years. These assist graduates to acquire critical thinking skills relevant for competent and professional practice. The curriculum is a four-year programme organized in eight semesters, each consisting of 20 weeks followed by one-year internship in hospitals approved by the Ministry of Health. After graduation, the nurses should be eligible for registration by the Tanzania Nursing and Midwifery Council (TNMC).

Learning Outcomes

  • Demonstrate broad and comparative knowledge of the general scope of nursing and its different areas, applications, and its interactions with related subjects including anatomy, biochemistry, pharmacology, parasitology, microbiology, epidemiology, infection preventions, biostatistics and ICT, nursing ethics, and professional communication. 339
  • Demonstrate detailed knowledge of nursing or a more coverage of a specialist area balanced by a wider range of study including midwifery, paediatric, mental health, nursing informatics, emergency and critical care, and anaesthesiology.
  • Demonstrate critical understanding of the essential theories, principles and concepts of nursing and of the ways in which these theories are developed through the main methods of enquiry in nursing.
  • Demonstrate critical understanding of the principles of nursing research and data collection methods as a means of advancing the professional knowledge base of nursing and develop evidence-based nursing care.
  • Demonstrate critical understanding of the principles of nursing ethics, laws, and regulations that govern nursing practice.
  • Employ universal precautions of infection prevention and control during caring and nursing procedures.
  • Conduct complete and relevant nursing assessments in a systematic manner.
  • Organize patient care using nursing assessment findings in a comprehensive manner.
  • Produce correct and appropriate nursing care plans for individual patients.
  • Design appropriate discharge plans and create individualized nursing and/or prevention plans including patient self-management and behaviour change.
  • Maintain confidence and comfort in the provision of holistic nursing care.
  • Apply knowledge, understanding, and skills in both identifying and analyzing problems and issues and in formulating, evaluating, and applying evidence-based solutions and arguments related to nursing.
  • Communicate the results of their researches and other works accurately and reliably in a range of different contexts using the main specialist concepts, constructs, and techniques of nursing.
  • Apply their subject and transferable skills to contexts where criteria for decisions and the scope of the task may be well defined but where personal responsibility, initiative, and decision-making are required; and identify and address their own learning needs including being able to draw on a range of current researches, developments, and professional materials.

Programme Structure

Year 1

Semester One

Code Course Title Status Credits
NS 111 Human Anatomy Core 23
NS 113 Medical Biochemistry Core 2E+1
DS 105 Development Study Core 9
NS 114 Medical Sociology Core 5
NS 115 Medical Psychology Core 5
LG 105 Communication Skills Core 4
NS 112 Basic Medical physiology Core 1E+1

Semester Two

Code Course Title Status Credits
NS 121 Pathophysiology Core 15
NS 122 Human Nutrition Core 1E+1
NS 123 Nursing Ethics and Professional Communication Core 13
NS 124 Embryology Core 7
NS 125 Developmental psychology and Human growth Core 8
NS 126 Biostatistics Core 8
NS 127 Information Communication Technology (ICT) Core Other 7

Year 2

Semester One

Code Course Title Status Credits
NS 211 Epidemiology and Research Methodology Core 8
NS 212 Medical Parasitology and Entomology Core 2E+1
NS 213 Fundamental skills of nursing I (theory) Core 8
NS 214 Fundamental skills of nursing practice I Core 16.2
NS 215 Microbiology and Immunology Core 2E+1

Semester Two

Code Course Title Status Credits
NS 221 Clinical Pharmacology Core 14
NS 222 Fundamental Skills for Nursing Practice (Theory) II Core 8.5
NS 223 Fundamental skills for nursing practice II Core 17
NS 224 Entrepreneurship Core 5
NS 225 Curriculum Development and Teaching Methodology Core 8
NS 226 Medical Nursing I Core 1E+1
NS 227 Surgical Nursing I Core 1E+1

Year 3

Semester One

Code Course Title Status Credits
NS 311 Clinical pharmacology Core 9
NS 312 Midwifery 1 (theory) Core 12
NS 313 Community Health Nursing I (theory) Core 9
NS 314 Pediatric Nursing I (theory) Core 1E+1

Semester Two

Code Course Title Status Credits
NS 321 Surgical Nursing practice (Clinical) Core 28
NS 324 Medical Nursing practice (Clinical) Core 28
NS 323 Pediatric Nursing practice (Clinical) Core 28
NS 322 Midwifery practice (Clinical) Core 28

Year 4

Semester One

Code Course Title Status Credits
NS 411 Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing I Core 8
NS 412 Emergency and Critical Care Core 8
NS 413 Research Methods and Methodology, I Core 14
NS 414 Community Health Nursing Practice Core 24
NS 415 Mental Health & Psychiatric Nursing Practice I Core Other 12
NS 416 Emergency and Critical Care Practice Core 12

Semester Two

Code Course Title Status Credits
NS 421 Mental Health & Psychiatric Nursing II (Blended theory, clinical and fieldwork project) Core 15
NS 422 Research Methods and Methodology II Core 21
NS 423 Nursing Leadership and Management Core 11
NS 424 Nursing Informatics Core 7
NS 425 Health system Management Residence Core 1E+1
NS 426 Advanced Concepts & Skills in Nursing And Midwifery Core 5
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