Johnass International College of Health Sciences (JOHNASS) is a private health training institution destined to address the inadequacy of healthcare training in Uganda and beyond. The College is intended to address emerging challenges that require new and pioneering ways in the delivery of quality health care education. Health care service delivery is uniquely exemplified with personal relationshi
ps that require its practitioners to have not only skills as leaders, team members and critical thinkers, but also as highly qualified compassionate professionals who are respectful of diverse values and beliefs. JOHNASS has been positioned to provide this range of products. The college is established to focus on training health care practioners at Certificate in Nursing and Midwifery. In future it will provide training at Diploma and Bachelors level. The College has established a permanent home in Njeru Town Council-Buikwe District. Through a robust strategic plan, JOHNASS intends to implement its objectives for the next five years which cover expected output, the college resource base, strengths, opportunities, weaknesses and threats as well as remedies. Within this framework, the college will achieve its objectives of training professionally trained practitioners to meet the delivery of healthcare services of the country and the world at large. The college in this regard, is spear heading community health promotion and disease prevention through outreaches in collaboration with international agencies and government. This provides greater exposure for students to professional and international standards of practice. The college is run and guided by strong Christian principles of the Catholic Church; but it embraces all religious denominations in staffing and admission of students. JOHNASS, Driving Change
The catchment for students demanding education and training in Health professions in Uganda and beyond, especially Nursing, Midwifery, other allied health professions and Community Health has tremendously continued to increase, thus the need to establish Johnass International College of health sciences that will produce healthcare professionals committed to the well-being of people. We carried out a needs assessment and learned that there were few professionally trained nurses in the area we situated Johnass ICHS and the country at large. The country's population is increasing at 4.8% per annum and at Johnass ICHS we believe that the number of professionally trained nurses can be synchronized to the need. The research we carried out showed that the infant mortality rates were unacceptably high. Every mother and child have a right to safe birth, holistic antenatal and post natal care. To achieve this, nurses and midwives need to be ethically astute as well as profficient in their dealings with patients. Johnass ICHS will greatly contribute to producing qualified healthcare practitioners and will contribute to providing a solution to lack of manpower professionals in the health care facilities within the region. Initially, the Institute intends to undertake training for both female and male students in nursing and midwifery.