Our Schools

VISION

• The vision of Mpilo School of Nursing is to be among the top institutions in the country recognized for our leadership and excellence in nursing education, research, practice, service and community outreach. The school’s educators, clinicians and researchers envision to produce the next generation of nursing leaders empowered and focused on innovative responses to address the challenges of a rapidly changing and culturally diverse health care environment that conveys our commitment to our mission and volunteer values – Highlighted in hand-outs.

 CORE VALUES

Caring and Compassion

• Caring is the essence of humanity and the basic constitutive phenomenon of the human experience
• Compassion is the force, which motivates a person to care
• Facilitating the teaching – learning process, advocating for the needs of others, and

mentoring our novice col leagues further defines caring as a core value.

Professionalism

The school creates a climate to encourage personal development of the following professional qualities

• Accountability
• Responsibility
• Dependability
• Commitment

Respect

The staff of Mpilo School of Nursing function in a spirit of mutual respect in dealing with others at all levels.

• Acknowledge the value of others by treating them with respect
• Listening to others carefully and asking for clarification when necessary

Integrity

Integrity is a link to our common bond

• In all endeavors, we will act in an honest, ethical and professional manner
• We value the modelling and teaching and teaching of honesty, integrity
• We believe an environment that promotes integrity and trust will create positive educational experience

Diversity

We value the opportunity to develop the potential of our diverse community.

Excellence

lt is important for the school to encourage, collaborative, and share knowledge and experience among faculty/students in developing and implementing innovations for the advancements of nursing education, practice and research.

Faculty and students will be challenges to continue their development in professional knowledge and skills as well as exploring for new learning.

We believe in the importance of providing a million that encourages leadership and creativity among staff and students.

Services offered

• Recruitment and retention of quality students
• Training of student nurses who are competent and function in any health care setting
• Commitment to improving our identity internationally and externally
• Integration of theory into clinical practice
• Supervision of students in their research work
• Supporting and mentoring of junior members of staff to develop professionally
• Carrying out effective measurements of success
• Developing synergistic partnerships stakeholders and communities of interest
• Leveraging, integration with and enhancement of the Ministry of Health and Child & Care and the Mpilo Central Hospital’s strategic goals.
• Offering an environment where staff continue to grow, expand and improve the quality of teaching, clinical practice and research.

PHILOSOPHY OF SCHOOL OF NURSING

Mpilo School of Nursing concurs with the Zimbabwe Health Policy of Equity in Health. The School of Nursing staff believes that:

• Nursing is a professional service which contributes to the image of God by the promotion of health and prevention of illness through the facilitation of informed decision making and self-care behaviors as well as the provision of care to clients and families during health and illness.
• The aim of education is to enable one to live a meaningful and dignified life which is devoted to the service of our fellowmen
• The basic course in nursing is a formal educational preparation which is based on sound educational principles. We recognize it as the foundation on which the practice of nursing is built and on which further education depends. It prepares nurses for the first level positions in both the hospital and community.
• Nursing education is a life-long process that should focus on research to generate its own scientific body of knowledge in order to improve nursing practice.
• The student are adult learners and should be self-directed in their learning. At the same time, we believe that we have a responsibility to the student and society to make provision in the programme for continued development of the student as an individual and a responsible citizen as well as a nurse.
• Nurse educators should continuously develop themselves in order to contribute to health and social demands that the professional learner needs
• The education of nurses should take place in all settings and the environment should be

conducive for learning to take place. It is the responsibility of the staff to provide an environment that conducive to learning.

CONTACTS

• +263 292 200675
• +263 292 208050

Email: son@mpilo.org.zw