Bachelor of Nursing
Health Sciences and Social Services - Promotive Health and Developmental Services
Purpose and Rationale
Nursing Qualification in South Africa
Purpose:
- Produce competent professional nurse practitioners.
- Provide graduates with skills to contribute to health services.
- Equip graduates with ethics for responsible practice.
- Offer transferable skills for various professions and life.
Learning Outcomes:
- Ethical Issues: Identify and address ethical and legal issues.
- Scientific Knowledge: Apply sciences in nursing care.
- Information Management: Access, produce, and manage information effectively.
- Health Care Management: Effectively manage health care units.
- Learning Strategies: Apply learning strategies for ongoing development.
- Maternal Health: Maintain optimal health for women and babies.
- Clinical Practice: Apply safe clinical nursing and midwifery practices.
- Research Utilization: Utilize research for improving health care outcomes.
Eligibility:
- Registration: Upon completion, eligible for registration as a Professional Nurse.
- Framework: Aligned with the Nursing Act No. 33 of 2005.
Rationale:
- Supply-Demand Gap: Addresses the growing gap in professional nurses.
- Recruitment: Aims to recruit more learners into professional nursing.
- Comprehensive Scope: Covers obstetric skills, mental health, and primary care.
- Quality Improvement: Graduates work towards quality improvement in health care.
- Research Component: Contributes to solving health-related problems.
- Leadership Role: Professional Nurses act as team leaders and managers.
This qualification provides a comprehensive nursing education with a focus on practical skills, ethics, leadership, and research, preparing graduates to make significant contributions to the health care system in South Africa.
Outcomes
- Identify and address ethical and legal issues based on critical reflection on the suitability of different ethical value (and legal) systems to the nursing and midwifery practice within the legal framework.
- Apply knowledge of biological and natural sciences, psycho-social sciences, and pharmacology in the provision of safe nursing care, throughout the life span, in a variety of health care settings and communities in response to population needs.
- Access, produce and manage information effectively to a range of audiences.
- Effectively manage the health care unit and health facility with the understanding of the roles and relationships within the multidisciplinary team.
- Apply learning strategies effectively to address own and others' professional and personal ongoing learning needs in a self-critical manner.
- Maintain optimal health of a woman, her family and baby, pre-partum, post-partum and intra-partum.
- Apply knowledge of theories, methods and techniques in the practice of safe clinical nursing and midwifery that is responsive to the needs of the individual, the family and the community, in accordance with national legislative and policy frameworks.
- Utilise research in nursing and health-related problems to improve health care outcomes.
Assessment Criteria
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 1:
- Promote individual, group, and community rights advocacy activities with respect to law and health care provision.
- Apply practice consistently with a clear understanding of South African Nursing and Health Care legislation, including a Primary Health Care approach.
- Interpret and apply ethical codes, professional accountability, responsibility, and standards for nursing and midwifery practice.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 2:
- Apply knowledge of psychology and sociology in nursing and midwifery practice to benefit health care delivery.
- Promote knowledge of bio-natural sciences for professional health care.
- Provide nursing interventions based on individualized plans for mentally ill persons.
- Utilize technology in nursing and midwifery practice for effective diagnosis and treatment.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 3:
- Organize, present, and communicate professional information accurately.
- Promote community involvement in health care through information sharing.
- Document assessments accurately and promote effective service delivery.
- Monitor standards for health care delivery and gather information for improvement.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 4:
- Plan and provide health care based on sound assessment.
- Develop unit philosophy, vision, mission, and comply with legislation.
- Establish systems for cost-effective service delivery.
- Manage pharmacological treatments effectively and monitor quality management systems.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 5:
- Manage personal development to maintain emotional balance.
- Contribute to the professional growth of nurses and the nursing profession.
- Engage in professional development activities and research.
- Direct learning and mentoring activities towards positive health outcomes.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 6:
- Prepare women and families for pregnancy, childbirth, and family changes.
- Conduct obstetric history-taking and physical examinations accurately.
- Monitor and manage mothers during labour and delivery.
- Ensure wellbeing of both mother and baby postnatally.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 7:
- Implement nursing care according to plans and comprehensive health assessments.
- Accurately diagnose and manage conditions.
- Deliver nursing care for long-term and terminally ill patients.
- Apply competent clinical skills and make clinical decisions based on clinical governance principles.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 8:
- Conduct research of limited scope based on identified needs.
- Conduct research ethically and develop strategies based on findings.
- Provide care based on scientific evidence.
Qualification Details
- Type
- National First Degree(Min 480)
- NQF Level
- 08
- Min. Credits
- 480
- SAQA Source
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