This is a 3 years, 6 semesters Basic Midwifery programme, approved by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN) and run by College of Nursing Sciences, St. Joseph’s Hospital Adazi-Nnukwu. It is designed to train students male or female on practical midwifery skills and exposes them to the knowledge and clinical experience they need to become a Registered Midwife (RM). Registered Midwife (RM) provides support, care and advice before, during and after pregnancy, labour and postpartum (after birth) period; this care includes preventative measures, the promotion of normal birth, the detection of complications in mother and child, the accessing of medical care or other appropriate assistance and the carrying out of emergency measures. Registered Midwife (RM) also conducts births and provide care for the newborn and the infant. They also provide family planning and preconception care as well as conduct prenatal exams and order tests.
Registered Midwives (RM) can work in any Tertiary Healthcare Institutions (e.g National Hospital, Federal Medical Centers etc), Secondary Healthcare Institutions (e.g General Hospitals), Primary Healthcare Institutions, (Primary Health Care, Comprehensive Health Care) and Maternal and Child Hospitals in the world.

Admission Requirements

Candidates must possess at least five (5) credits at not more than two (2) sittings including English Language, Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry and Physics in WAEC, NECO and/or NABTEB. Combination of WAEC/WAEC, NECO/NECO, WAEC/NECO is acceptable. NABTEB cannot be combined with WAEC or NECO or another NABTEB. If candidate will use NABTEB, she must have all the required 5 credits in it.
Qualified candidates will be required to write an Entrance Examination to be conducted by the College.
Successful candidates at the Entrance Exam will be invited for an interview to be conducted by the College.
Successful candidates at the interview will be offered provisional admission into Basic Midwifery programme at College of Nursing Sciences, St. Joseph’s Hospital, Adazi-Nnukwu.
Candidates admitted into the Basic Midwifery Programme will undergo intensive training/lecture in Basic Sciences, Nursing and Midwifery Courses for six months. Thereafter an Introductory Examination which will serve as the First Semester, first year examination will be conducted by the College of Nursing Sciences, St. Joseph’s Hospital Adazi-Nnukwu.
Only successful candidates at the Introductory Examination will be Indexed by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria while the unsuccessful candidates will be withdrawn from the training.