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Departement of Mental Health

MISSION STATEMENT:

Rwanda’s tragic events  of 1994 greatly affected the Rwandan community politically,
economically and psycho-socially. This led to a need for a larger number of mental health nurses.  In 1998, one year after the official opening KHI, plans to introduce Mental Health Department were in their final stages and the department first started as a two year bridging program.

The department’s mission therefore is drawn from that ofKHI which is to train psychiatric nurses who   are capable of providing appropriate preventive, curative, rehabilitative care and promote Mental health care services to individuals and community members in
Rwanda.

II. COURSE OBJECTIVES
1. GENERAL OBJECTIVES:

-To offer psychiatric nursing care to people suffering from both mental illnesses and those
having psychological problems.

-The treatment training is done in a way that our graduates offer services holistically:  
example, physically, psychologically, socially and spiritually.

2 SPECIFICS OBJECTIVES:

  Expected outcome from our students:

-  Theoretical and practical skills to treat psychiatric illness.
-  Nursing assessment.
-  Diagnostic capacity in psychiatric nursing care.
-  Community Sensitization.
-  Evaluation of daily activities.
-  Self evaluation.
III. Our Partners:

- The Brothers of Charity.
- The University of Western Ontario
- Doctors without Boarders

IV. ADMISSION CONDITIONS:

- Applicants interested in our department, must fulfill
the following conditions  :
- Must have passed A. Level exams with at least 4 point in the following areas: nursing sciences, social sciences and Psycho-pedagogy.