About 110 nurses who graduated from UNAM's Rundu campus are ready to take up employment at hospitals countrywide.

The nurses took a mandatory oath during the graduation ceremony at Rundu.

Our news team spoke to the Academic Coordinator of the School of Nursing and Public Health, Daniel Ashipala, who explained why nurses took oaths during graduation.

"Because nursing is not just a job but a calling. If somebody is called, I believe that he should really just live that as a vocation because they have been called to come and assist patients. Yes, maybe the majority are called, but maybe a few of them are not, and maybe this is the one that makes the good name of the profession, but it's really our wish that this is what we dispatch today in the workforce to live by the pledge."

Ashipala is confident that the graduates were imparted with skills over the course of four years, which included intensive on-the-job training.

UNAM's Rundu Campus Director, Dr. Helena Miranda, also spoke at the graduation.

"The responsibility for people's health is much more demanding because their lives are in your hands. For one to be a nurse, you must also have a caring and mature heart because you have been entrusted with patients' health-related information that you must keep confidential. So as you pledge here tonight, you have to do so wholeheartedly and must always remember the promises that you are going to make here, even 40 years later."