University in Nigeria
Nigeria
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The College of Nursing Sciences of the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH) is the nursing training arm of the federal teaching hospital in Calabar, Cross River State. Its stated mission is to transform the student nurse into a professionally functional nurse, competent in providing quality nursing care globally, built on acquired knowledge, skills, attitudes and ethics, in a student-centred learning environment that promotes research, clinical practice and community service through the nursing process approach.
The college is located at the hospital's permanent site on UNICAL Hotel Road, off Airport Road, Calabar. It admits male and female candidates and offers ND/HND Nursing Sciences programmes. Its vision is to become a centre of excellence that prepares functional nurses able to deliver nursing care in any part of the world.
The curriculum aims to develop the cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains of students, professional skills grounded in a holistic view of the person, empathy and versatility, application of biological, physical and behavioural sciences across the nursing process of assessing, diagnosing, planning, implementing and evaluating care, awareness of research in nursing through supervised projects, and a positive attitude toward patients, clients, communities and the wider health team.
Facilities. Academic facilities include three classrooms, a tutorial room, a demonstration room, a computer room, a science laboratory with reagents, an equipment store and a library. An on-site hostel with capacity for over 200 students has a reading room, kitchenette, cafeteria, common room, sick bay and laundry.
Leadership. The Principal is Arit F. Ironbar. The school became fully accredited in its own right in November 2009.
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View scholarships for College of Nursing Sciencea, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Cross River State →Full secondary school education with a Senior Secondary Certificate or equivalent: five credits at not more than two sittings, including Mathematics, English Language, Biology or Health Science, and two other subjects. A Diploma in Community Health or a Certificate in Community Health Extension from an accredited institution may alternatively be considered.
Entry is by a written entrance examination followed by an interview, both organised by UCTH. Candidates are male and female. Offers must be accepted by signing and returning the acceptance form within two weeks of results; offers lapse after two weeks and pass to the waiting list.
Successful candidates submit all credentials, including a valid licence and four recent passport photographs, and pay the verification fee to the relevant examination bodies.
ND/HND Nursing Sciences: non-refundable application fee of N20,000 payable through Remita at any commercial bank or on the Remita platform. Typical timeline: forms on sale April to June, entrance examination in July, interviews in August, resumption in the first week of October. For the 2026 session, sale of forms closed on 1 August 2026 (discontinued 30 July 2026), and the aptitude test originally set for 15 August 2026 was postponed to 22 August 2026.
Facilities: three classrooms, a tutorial room, a demonstration room, a computer room, a science laboratory with reagents, an equipment store and a library. The hostel (over 200 capacity) includes a reading room, kitchenette, cafeteria, common room, sick bay and laundry.
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