Only professional nurses registered with a professional body such as the South African Nursing Council are admitted t this advanced programme. After completing it, a student will be eligible to register as a community health nurse, gerontological nurse, occupational health nurse or clinical nurse.
Type: undergraduate diploma
Duration: 2 years part time
Compulsory Subjects
First year subjects:
- Comprehensive primary health care
- Comprehensive primary health care
- Community health practical
- Health and the environment
- Pharmacological principles
- Clinical management: Adult Patient
- Community development and the basic needs approach
Second year subjects:
- Pharmacology for health workers
- Pharmacology: management of drugs
- HIV/AIDS care and counselling
- Research in the social sciences
- Basic epidemiology in health care
- Nursing dynamics
- Ergonomics
- Human resource management in health services
- Occupational health theory
- Occupational health: practical
Careers: occupational health nurse or therapist
Source: www.unisa.ac.za