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Nursing Sciences
Nursing Care 3 years (6 semesters) 180 credits
Develop advanced clinical nursing competencies for hospital, community, and specialized care settings across Cameroon.
Program Overview
This programme trains professionals capable of analysing health situations, making decisions within the limits of their competence, and leading care interventions either independently or as part of a multidisciplinary team.
Learning Objectives
To train nurses capable of analysing health situations, making competence-appropriate decisions, and leading care interventions independently or within a multidisciplinary team.
Key Competencies
- Be responsible and reflective
- Possess manual dexterity and strong interpersonal skills
- Recognise emotions and channel them alongside professional knowledge
- Demonstrate confidence and self-assurance
- Apply critical thinking and questioning skills
- Develop professional ethics and standards
- Make considered decisions
- Act autonomously and responsibly within the clearly defined scope of the role
- Assess clinical situations and establish nursing diagnoses
- Design and manage nursing care plans
- Support patients in carrying out daily care activities
- Implement diagnostic and therapeutic actions
- Initiate and implement educational and preventive care
- Communicate and build relationships in a care context
- Analyse care quality and improve professional practice
- Research and process professional and scientific data
- Organise and coordinate care interventions
- Inform and train professionals and student practitioners
Career Outcomes
Public service
Private hospitals and clinics
NGOs (Non-Governmental Organisations)
Self-employment
Agri-food sector
Occupational medicine
Research and training
Curriculum
Semester 1 (Year 1)
SI-108
French Communication
2 Credits
SI-107
English for Health Sciences
2 Credits
SI-106
Medical Psychology
2 Credits
SI-105
General Biochemistry
3 Credits
SI-104
Medical Microbiology and Parasitology
3 Credits
SI-103
Fundamentals of Nursing
5 Credits
SI-102
Human Physiology
4 Credits
SI-101
Human Anatomy
4 Credits
Semester 2 (Year 1)
SI-207
First Aid and Emergency Nursing
4 Credits
SI-206
Biostatistics
2 Credits
SI-205
Nutrition
2 Credits
SI-204
Infection Control and Sterilization
3 Credits
SI-203
Pharmacology I
3 Credits
SI-202
Pathology I — Internal Medicine
4 Credits
SI-201
Medical-Surgical Nursing I
5 Credits
Semester 3 (Year 2)
SI-306
Community and Public Health
3 Credits
SI-305
Mental Health Nursing
3 Credits
SI-304
Pharmacology II
3 Credits
SI-303
Paediatric Nursing
4 Credits
SI-302
Pathology II — Surgery
4 Credits
SI-301
Medical-Surgical Nursing II
5 Credits
Semester 4 (Year 2)
SI-406
Health Service Management
3 Credits
SI-405
Research Methodology
3 Credits
SI-404
Health Ethics and Law
2 Credits
SI-403
HIV/AIDS Care
3 Credits
SI-402
Obstetric and Neonatal Nursing
4 Credits
SI-401
Intensive Care Nursing
5 Credits
Semester 5 (Year 3)
SI-503
Health Promotion
4 Credits
SI-502
Clinical Internship I — Paediatrics
8 Credits
SI-501
Clinical Internship I — Medicine/Surgery
12 Credits
Semester 6 (Year 3)
SI-603
Professional Development Seminar
5 Credits
SI-602
Final Research Project (Mémoire)
10 Credits
SI-601
Final Clinical Internship
15 Credits
Entry Requirements
Hold a Baccalauréat C, D or E (science stream), with a solid grounding in biology and natural sciences.
Pass the national competitive entrance examination organised by MINESUP for paramedical BTS programmes.
Be no older than 25 years at the time of the entrance examination.
Holders of a Baccalauréat A4 (Biology) may also be admitted subject to the conditions set by the entrance examination.
Quick Info
- Level
- BTS
- Duration
- 3 years (6 semesters)
- Credits
- 180
- Department
- Nursing Care
- Language
- EN / FR