COURSE: ADVANCED UNIVERSITY DIPLOMA IN HEALTH ...

This diploma is offered to nurses who have been registered with a professional body as professional nurses. It allows students to function effectively as nursing service managers and nurse educators. It also allows successful students to register these two additional qualifications with the professional body.

Type: undergraduate diploma

Duration: 2 years part time

Compulsory Subjects

First year subjects:

• Nursing dynamics


• HIV/AIDS care and counselling


• The adult: an educational perspective


• Education and technology


• Contextualisation of health sciences education


• Principles of health sciences education


• Planning and organising in health services management


• Leading and control in health services management


• The nature, content and scope of public administration

Second year subjects:

• Research in the social sciences


• Education management in health sciences


• Teaching and assessment in health sciences


• Health sciences education: practical


• Human resources management in health services


• Labour relations in health services


• Health services management practical


• Basic epidemiology in health care

Careers: health educator, health facilitator, health service manager.

Source: www.unisa.ac.za​