Abstract:

Nursing as a pofession has the responsibilty to education its practitioners bring them specific knowledge they need to practice and produce new knowledge which ultimately will promote health, reduce mortality and morbidity rate. The study seeks to determine the nurse tutors professional competence by course allocation (anatomy and physiology, foundation of nursing and reproductive health) and curriculum coverage. A descriptive quantitative research. Nurse tutors teaching allotted courses were professionally competent on a high level note of the mean score of 3.99, 3.90 and 4.23 respectively. Curriculum of basic nursing programme was adequately covered with mean average of 4.09. There was no significant difference in the rating of nurse tutors based on the courses allocation. There was a significant relationship between professional competence of nurse tutors and content coverage of the courses. The study shows that curriculum is adequately covered and the nurse tutors were professionally competent with signifcant relationship.