provide health care to all people in Ghana and the global community.
The Principal is the highest academic and administrative head of the college.
The Principal’s office, located on the ground floor of the Main Administration block (close to the Alumni Hall), is open from 8:30am to 4:30pm Monday through Friday.
The of Theresa Awo Segbefia (Mrs) has been dedicated to the noble profession- Nursing, for nearly four decades. A call to serve dutifully and seamlessly as though she was born to be a nurse, and YES by the feats she has chalked, one can say so.
She obtained her General Certificate Examination (GCE) ‘O’ Level at the Krobo Girls Secondary School from 1974-1979. She then gained admission into the Nursing Training College to be certified as a State Registered Nurse (SRN) at Korle-bu from 1980-1983. Following completion, she worked at the Korle-bu Teaching Hospital for one year. She returned to the classroom to build professional capacity at her alma Mata to train as a Registered Midwife at the Midwifery Training School at Korle-bu from 1984 to 1985.
She returned to the Korle-bu Teaching Hospital to serve humanity in a dedicated and passionate way spanning a period of nine years (1985 to 1994). Being hungry for growth and career development, she applied and gained admission into University of Ghana, Legon to obtain her Diploma in Education/Administration at the School of Nursing. After a successful completion of her University and excelling with honours, she proceeded into the classroom as a tutor to impact the younger generation at the Koforidua Nursing and Midwifery training college. Her dearth of knowledge was top notch and highly admirable. She would not let any learning and growing moment pass her by. She returned into the classroom to be impacted, this time obtaining her Bachelor of Arts in Nursing/Psychology also at the School of Nursing based at the University of Ghana, Legon from 2000 to 2003.
At this point, she felt it was only fair to come back and serve where her professional ambitions started Korle-bu Nursing Training College. She served here as a tutor from 2003-2005. Like Abraham Maslow postulated in his hierarchy of needs, Theresa Awo Segebfia (Mrs) desired to self-Actualize. She needed to hit the pinnacle of her profession. From 2005 to 2008, she went back to University of Ghana to fulfil that dream. She studied Master of Philosophy in Nursing. She has passed through the professional mill and is very refined. She returned to the Korle-bu Nursing and Midwifery training college to work as a tutor after completion of her Master of Philosophy until 2013 when she became the Principal of the premier Nursing college in Ghana till now.
She is a mother. She is a team builder and a team player. She has put together a formidable and well knitted team of staff who are raising the next generation of the Florence Nightingale.
MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL
Nurses and Midwives play important roles in the Health Care delivery system in Ghana. Quality training is therefore a pre-requisite for the performance of these roles. The Nurse’s Training College, Korle-Bu is the premiere institution in Ghana for nursing education, having been established in 1945. Where as the first batch of trained Midwives took their final examination in 1930.
The two institutions, that is, Nurses’ Training College and Midwifery Training School, Korle-Bu operated as separate training institutions with two principals, until 2nd January, 2008, when in line with a Ministry of Health Policy, the two institutions were merged with one Principal as the administrative head.
