Lanka Hospitals School of Nursing graduation ceremony held for the first time

Lanka Hospitals School of Nursing, the nurses training arm of Lanka Hospitals Academy, held the first graduation ceremony in its history for the hospital’s new nurses who graduated with a Diploma in General Nursing from the batch of 2018. Lanka Hospitals School of Nursing is the first nursing school in Sri Lanka to offer the NVQ Level-6 Higher National Diploma in Nursing. The nursing students’ batch of 2020 who celebrated their capping ceremony on the same day, will be the first students of Lanka Hospitals School of Nursing to sit for the NVQ Level-6 Higher National Diploma in Nursing. Each year the school trains around 60 nurses, with an English language curriculum and lectures fully conducted in English to expand the knowledge and skills of nursing students. A high standard is maintained in the training programme for students with real-life clinical settings designed for on-the-ground training at Lanka Hospitals.

“As a leading private hospital, I am proud of the significant role that we have had in producing highly trained nurses in Sri Lanka. We have been able to mold nursing students into healthcare professionals who are now able to seek employment in a healthcare facility locally or overseas, and are fully equipped to reach greater heights in their chosen career path as nurses,” Lanka Hospitals’ Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Director Medical Services, Dr. Lasantha Karunasekara stated. The NVQ Level-6 Higher National Diploma in Nursing conducted by Lanka Hospitals School of Nursing is approved by National Apprentice and Industrial Training Authority (NAITA) and the Tertiary & Vocational Education Commission (TVEC). Therefore, by the end of the programme students will receive the internationally recognised NVQ Level-6 Higher National Diploma in Nursing from TVEC as well.

Over the last 20 years, Lanka Hospitals School of Nursing has been the primary source of recruitments in nursing at Lanka Hospitals, maintaining a successful track record in producing highly trained nurses with an overwhelmingly high nurses’ graduating rate of 100%. The nursing students who successfully graduate receive guaranteed employment as a nurse at Lanka Hospitals. Lanka Hospitals Academy was established in 2019 to train and produce skilled healthcare professionals who seek a career in healthcare. The programmes offered by Lanka Hospitals Academy are meticulously designed to suit the needs of its students and are conducted by Sri Lanka’s top medical and educational professionals. Meanwhile the Lanka Hospitals School of Nursing is the most successful teaching programme offered by Lanka Hospitals Academy maintaining its position as one of the most successful nursing schools in the private health sector in Sri Lanka.