This is a continuation of the first part (Here ) Hoima School of Nursing and Midwifery Hardly three years into formation, the school had had quite a number of internal student-administrator squables that would occassionally end-in ‘micro-strikes’. This was especially the case post arrival of the first government-sponsored lot (or sets) to the school in […]
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Before the year 2000, nursing & midwifery students, and strikes weren’t words to be found in the same sentence. This, however, changed post 2000 with the first reported strike in 2002. It would be almost another decade (10yrs)before a strike action by student nurses and midwives would be reported on. Many of the student strike […]
The Unasnm is a student-led umbrella association whose make-up are students enrolled for nursing and midwifery programmes at the many nursing and midwifery health training tertiary schools dotted across the country. Since it’s inception and subsequent registration as a non-profit in 1987, it’s primary focus has been to improve the academic performance of it’s core […]
Congragulations! unasnm.com is available! This was the responce, when OfualokaPost run unasnm.com, the unasnm’s former web address, in a domains-available-for-sale database. A domain, in simple terms, is one’s address on the internet. Having an on-line presence in the digital age of computers and smart phones has become a neccesity for many organisations, big or small, […]
Continuation of part 1. It would be benefitial to first read part 1 As part of the on-going reforms highlighted in Mrs Kataha’s speech, unmeb has embarked on a semester-based system of assessing nurses and midwives, in sharp contrast to what has been the practice – 12monthly reviews or promotional system of assessing trainees. According […]
On the 1st March 2018, the Uganda Nurses and Midwives Examination Board (unmeb), an outfit under the education ministry that examines training certificate and diploma nurses and midwives, released results of it’s 24th series of State Final exams conducted 6th – 10th November 2017. In attendence were officials from the unmeb, permanent secretaries and representatives […]
The nursing and midwifery profession in Uganda (and East Africa) began with Mrs Catherine Cook, wife to Sir Albert Cook, training 8 enrolled midwives in 1917, and enrolled nurses in 1928 at Mengo Hospital. In later years, more programmes were introduced: Registered Midwifery in 1976, Registered Nursing in 1979 and Enrolled Comprehensive Nursing in 2006, […]
After concluding promotional examinations for retaking candidates from 12th to 16th march 2018, the marking of the said retake exams started today 21st and ends 23rd march 2018, this according to unmeb’s schedule of activites. Finalists should then have enough time — April and May — to prepare for June’s semester exams. This will be […]
Uganda Nurses and Midwives Examinations Board (unmeb) released it’s November 2017 state final examinations results 1st March. Among the results released were those that had been withheld in the May 2017 state final examinations. The release was after the candidates, in unmeb’s view, had complied with regulations governing the former’s examinations — to which the […]
#UnasnmAgm2018 | The choice of having a nursing and midwifery school host any unasnm event is informed largely by: (1) the need to have some form of regional balance, (2) provision of utilities & other services at no/minimal cost by the host school, and perhaps (3) the geographical location of the host school — it […]