For nursing and midwifery practitioners to be able to do their job well and handle basic duties within the medical environment there are a number of subjects and skills that they need to be familiar with in addition to the clinical skills. Education in the department of basic studies acquaints students with the ways that communication techniques and technologies, behavioral sciences and biosciences are fundamental to their career growth; how they should govern themselves in the clinical areas as well as help them understand statistics and research methods commonly used in nursing and midwifery.

The courses offered mostly at entry level are also designed to provide students with the basic foundation for the understanding of nursing and midwifery as related to statistics and research, language and communication, physiology, anatomy and biosciences which emphasize development of the basic knowledge, procedures, problem solving skills and attitudes required of nursing professionals.

In as much as our programs are non-clinical in nature and usually difficult to link to clinical decisions and practice, we give them credence as courses like biomedical sciences support students’ mastery of the contemporary scientific knowledge, concepts and methods fundamental to acquiring and applying science in the  practice of nursing and midwifery while communication is vital in every industry.