UNMEB Circular on Training Requirements & Student Assessment

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CIRCULAR ON COMPLIANCE TO MANDATORY REQUIREMENTS DURING TRAINING AND ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT NURSES AND MIDWIVES

Uganda Nurses and Midwives Examinations board wishes to draw your attention to the above captioned subject matter. Following the comments and observations from our stakeholders regarding reduced quality in competences and the reduced good grades in performance of our trainees, the Board is calling for more vigilance to be undertaken to ensure that Nurses and Midwives qualify with efficient and effective knowledge and skills.

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The purpose of this communication therefore, is to notify all Principals on the following:

1. Ensure that the curricula are evenly covered during the course of training as the Board assesses from any area stipulated in the curricula.

2. All students must be taken for Practicum exposure as specified in the curriculum and evenly rotated in order to acquire all the required competences.

3. Follow up and support supervision must be done by the school in order to support the Mentors in the clinical area. In order to improve skills acquisition by the students as well as maintaining a good working relationship between schools and Teaching Hospitals, schools are encouraged to hold regular consultative meetings with Hospital Mentors/Preceptors to address issues of common interest.

5. For purposes of harmonizing the plotting of the Partograph, UNMEB advises all schools to adapt the recommended and standardized plotting by the Ministry of Health.

UNMEB Circular on Training Requirements & Student Assessment

6. In order to improve the quality research done by the students and avoid piracy, UNMEB advises each school to form a Research Committee to be responsible for approving Research Proposals. Additionally, you are also encouraged to fully equip school libraries with adequate research text books to -facilitate proper literature
reviews and referencing. Students should be given case studies to improve on their critical thinking skills and followed up by guided presentations.

8. Tutors are advised to always have keen interest in students who fail some papers by establishing the causes of the failure and assist them accordingly.

9. All Clinical Record Books i.e. Assessment Tools, Midwifery Case Record Books and Syllabus Record Books MUST be duly signed by the students, Mentors, Tutors, Principals and the Head of Nursing of the Training Hospital as non-compliance shall attract serious measures as reflected in the Rules for conduct of Examinations.

10.During Theory Examinations, observe the recommended spacing stipulated in the Rules for the conduct of Nursing and Midwifery Examinations where a desk and the chair or chairs are arranged 1.2 meters away from the next candidate in all directions. Failure to observe this shall lead to withdrawal of Examination Centres for the
non-compliant schools as this encourages examination malpractice. This shall apply to all schools regardless of whether they are Public, PNFP or Private.

UNMEB Circular on Training Requirements & Student Assessment

11.It has come to the notice of the Board that some schools locally allocate Examination Numbers to students during examinations. This makes it difficult for UNMEB to identify such candidates and is time consuming as well. It is advisable to always consult UNMEB before such decisions are implemented for proper guidance.

12. During conduct of Promotional Examinations where the schools are supposed to identify their own Practical Examiners, these Examiners should ONLY be drawn from Nursing and Midwifery fraternity. You are therefore requested to submit details of all Promotional Practical Examiners to UNMEB for vetting by 15th February 2017 in preparation for the forthcoming March 2017 Examinations.

You are kindly requested to comply to these reminders in order for the Board to effectively deliver its mandate.

“Uphold Examination Standards”
Helen Mukakarisa Kataratambi
EXECUTIVE SECRETARY- UNMEB
c.c. The Registrar Uganda Nurses and Midwives Council
c.c. The Commissioner BTVET/MOES

Currently Uganda Nurses and Midwives Examinations Board UNMEB has not Published their Circular and Updates on Training Requirements & Student Assessment for 2021-2022 academic year. Keep checking this very page for immediate update as soon UNMEB uploads its Updates.