Friday, May 22, 2020

Is the Kenyan Bachelor of Science degree in nursing any good?

Well, I think that the Bachelor of Science degree in nursing offered by some Kenyan universities is quite good. After going through the program, you come out as a highly skilled nursing professional – one who is acquainted not just with the manual aspects of nursing, but quite a bit of medical science as well. Actually there is a time I heard that the people who graduated with the Bachelor of Science degrees in Kenya would on average only need only two or so years of extra training, to qualify as doctors. If that is true, then it would mean that the folks with the Bachelor of Science degrees in nursing are very highly skilled professionals, who are as knowledgeable on some aspects of treatment as the doctors!
In the labor market, the people with the Kenyan Bachelor of Science degrees in nursing have to compete with folks who have the diploma in nursing from KMTC. This can cause challenges, as I was told, because the folks with the Bachelor of Science degrees in nursing are likely to demand somewhat higher salaries than the folks with the KMTC registered nurse diplomas. But hospitals that have hired the folks with Bachelor of Science in Nursing know that they tend to be very highly skilled professionals, who can handle challenging situations, and that justifies the higher pay accorded to them.

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