Nursing & Health Study Centre (NHSC)
Overview
KWNC was established in 1999 and the Department of Further Studies was formed in 2001 to cater the needs of constant development in society, continuing education for nurses as well as rise in demand for health care and first-aid knowledge in the community. The Department was renamed Extramural Studies Department (ESD) in September 2008. In accordance with the revision of the College’s statutes, the Department was renamed Nursing & Health Study Centre (NHSC) in 2019.
In response to the philosophy of residents having lifelong learning and the issue of population ageing, the NHSC launched various kinds and levels of training courses for the public to broaden relevant health care knowledge with following objectives:
1. To promote lifelong education and enhance nursing professionalism to improve services provided to the public;
2. To offer various health and nursing courses to raise public’s health care awareness;
3. To promote KWNC to the public;
4. To enable KWNC teachers to engage more with the public
5. To introduce more programmes / courses and increase teaching resources.
NHSC is one of the organizational units of KWNC. To facilitate the integration of the College’s teaching, research and social services, for many years, the department propagated courses and plans for healthy Macau SAR government departments and community institutions. NHSC has offered a variety of short to long term health certificate / diploma programmes or courses, these programmes / courses include:
1. Certificate programmes / courses
2. Certified courses
3. First aid courses
4. Health promotion courses and talks
Vision
1. To expand community resources;
2. To collaborate closely with other organizations;
3. To develop the College's teaching resources;
4. To advance steadily with pragmatic spirit.