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Ms. Keziah Kahiga

HOD, Department of Midwifery and Reproductive Health Nursing; Ag. HOD, Department of Nursing Education,  Leadership and Research

Title and Responsibilities

Lecturer-nursing

  • Teaching and mentoring nursing students
  • Teaching and supervising and assessing students in the clinical field
  • Administration of Nursing Council of Kenya activities

School of nursing

Biography

  • I have taught nursing students for 13 years: ten years at college level and three years at the university.
  • I am a peer- reviewer with the Kenyan Journal of Nursing and Midwifery
  • I have experience in motivational speaking to primary, secondary and college students
  • I am registered by the nursing council of Kenya and a member of national nurses association of Kenya (NNAK) and Midwives Association of Kenya

Academic Qualifications

  • PHD-Ongoing  Jomo Kenyatta midwifery University of Agriculture and Technology
  • Masters of Nursing 2013 University of Dundee (UK) Factors influencing job satisfaction for nurses working in obstetric units in public hospitals in Kenya
  • Bachelor of Science in Nursing 2005 University of Nairobi 
  • Basic counseling for health workers 2016 The Nairobi hospital
  • Diabetes management  2013 The Nairobi Hospital
  • Helping 2011 Regional center babies breath for quality of health care

Publications (1 Publications)

Journals

  • Kahiga, K (2018). Factors influencing the job satisfaction of nurses working in obstetric units in public hospitals in Kenya .Journal of Nursing Education and Practice. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5430/jnep.v8n2p132

Invited Presentations

  • Presented on psychosocial risk factors for post-partum depression at a nurses symposium in MP Shah hospital in 2019

  • Presented on factors influencing job satisfaction for nurses at a nurses symposium in Nairobi hospital in 2015

Research Interests

Maternal and neonatal health; management; gender issues; sexual and reproductive health. 

Teaches

  • Midwifery
  • Gynecology
  • Sexual and reproductive health
  • Gender issues
  • Concepts and Fundamentals of nursing
  • Human pathology 

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