HASA believes in education and training, and boasts, through its hospitals, programmes designed to spawn a highly skilled and motivated professional force. Most of these training programmes are designed to train nurses, the backbone of the hospital sector but also provide for management and non-nursing skills.
The nursing programmes are for those who want to specialise or graduate to positions of more responsibility. Besides improving high-care skills such as theatre, catheterization laboratories and emergency units, private hospitals train undergraduate nurses.
Student nurses work under supervision during their training and are accompanied by clinical tutors. Registered Nurses are also trained in Operating Room techniques, Intensive Care Nursing, Cardiac Care, Neonatal ICU and many more. Public Private Partnerships have also been implemented to promote the training of nurses. Nursing remains a field boasting one of the highest employability rates in the country.
The vision is to plug the ever-increasing gap as a result of loss of skilled personnel of nursing and healthcare related professionals to other countries or non-healthcare professions. Exciting new career programmes such as the Surgical Technologist (2-year programme) and Clinical Engineering Technician’s Assistant (1-year programme) are offered to support and stimulate the growth of Ancillary professions within Healthcare.
FOR THE NAME AND ADDRESS OF TRAINING BODY FOLLOW THE LINK:
ARWYP MEDICAL CENTRE TRAINING INSTITUTE is accredited by the South African Nursing Council, to offer bright young school-leavers career-focused learning programs in nursing. Go to www.arwyp.co.za for more information.
VISTA CLINIC offers a kaleidoscope of short courses ranging from life skills and personal wellness to group therapy and understanding the psychotherapeutic environment.
NETCARE’S EDUCATION DIVISION has nursing and management and leadership training programmes designed to have an impact not only on the individual but also on the economy as a whole. www.netcare.co.za give more details.
THE LIFE COLLEGE OF LEARNING is a multi learning centre offering relational practice-based nursing and non nursing disciplines such as Emergency Care. For more information of the courses go to www.lifehealthcare.co.za
MEDICLINIC offers nurses advanced and specialised nursing courses as a bridge to train and instruct professionals in preparation for a specialised role or, function. To learn more about medi-clinic courses visit www.mediclinic.co.za
Please note that this information is provided by the member hospitals and is subject to change.
HASA members wishing to put their training programmes in this website must please contact the association’s Executive Officer of Healthcare Delivery Sharon Slabbert.
