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National Certificate :
Community Health Care
Title: National Certificate:
Community Health Work
Unit Standard 64749
Level 2 : Credits 140 min
Core 117017 : Level 1 : Credits 3
Provide information about
Tuberculosis and directly
observed treatment (DOTS)
Core 117493 : Level 3 : Credits 6
Provide information about HIV
and AIDS and treatment
options in community care and
support situations
Core 119559 : Level 1 : Credits 10
Demonstrate knowledge of the
provision and implementation
of primary health care
Core 119560 : Level 2 : Credits 4
Promote an awareness of
Sexually Transmitted Infections
(STIs) in the community
Core 119567 : Level 1 : Credits 5
Perform basic life support and
first aid procedures
Core 120308 : Level 2 : Credits 3
Apply knowledge of self in
order to make a personal
decision
Core 15091 : Level 1 : Credits 3
Plan to manage one`s time
Core 260477 : Level 2 : Credits 12
Assist in establishing good
nutrition for community
members
Core 260478 : Level 2 : Credits 5
Apply life skills to everyday
life
Core 260480 : Level 2 : Credits 3
Facilitate the prevention of
fatigue in the workplace
Core 260617 : Level 1 : Credits 6
Assist the community to
access services in accordance
their health related human
rights
Core 260697 : Level 2 : Credits 12
Conduct a basic community
needs assessment
Core 244564 : Level 2 : Credits 2
Identify causes of stress in
own life and indicate
techniques to manage it
Core 260499 : Level 2 : Credits 3
Manage the care of acute and
chronic wounds
Core 260497 : Level 2 : Credits 8
Participate in health promotion
activities
Core 254221 : Level 3 : Credits 3
Prevent musculoskeletal
injuries to self during lifting
and carrying activities
Fundamental 119454
: Level 2 : Credits 5
Maintain and adapt oral/signed
communication
Fundamental 119455
: Level 2 : Credits 5
Respond to selected literary
texts
Fundamental 119456
: Level 2 : Credits 5
Write/present for a defined
context
Fundamental 119463
: Level 2 : Credits 5
Access and use information
from texts
Fundamental 12444
: Level 2 : Credits 3
Measure, estimate and calculate
physical quantities and
explore, describe and represent
geometrical relationships in 2-
dimensions in different life or
workplace contexts
Fundamental 7469
: Level 2 : Credits 2
Use mathematics to
and monitor the financial
aspects of personal and
community life
Fundamental 7480
: Level 2 : Credits 3
Demonstrate understanding of
rational and irrational numbers
and number systems
Fundamental 9007
: Level 2 : Credits 5
Work with a range of patterns
and functions and solve
problems
Fundamental 9009
: Level 2 : Credits 3
Apply basic knowledge of
statistics and probability to
influence the use of data and
procedures in order to
investigate life related problems
Elective 116991 : Level 2 : Credits 8
Assist in establishing a disability
friendly environment
Elective 117009 : Level 3 : Credits 10
Apply palliative care principles
when assisting and supporting the
client and family to manage life-
threatening disease
Elective 117924 : Level 2 : Credits 5
Use a Graphical User Interface
(GUI)-based word processor to
format documents
Elective 120313 : Level 2 : Credits 2
Investigate work opportunities in
order to make a personal
employment or work decision
Elective 260463 : Level 2 : Credits 12
Assist the client and significant
others to manage home based
health care
Elective 260465 : Level 1 : Credits 5
Live in wellness by using
traditional and indigenous self-
help tools
Elective 260466 : Level 2 : Credits 8
Demonstrate stress management
techniques as a self-help tool
Elective 260479 : Level 2 : Credits 9
Promote activities of daily living
for clients with a disability or a
chronic condition
Elective 260481 : Level 2 : Credits 10
Create an awareness of disability
and disability issues in a
community
Elective 260498 : Level 2 : Credits 8
Provide basic interventions to
prevent deformities improve
mobility and reduce pain for
clients with disabilities
Elective 260598 : Level 3 : Credits 16
Provide support relating to home
based care
Elective 260698 : Level 2 : Credits 8
Reduce the impact of disasters on
communities, the people and
their environment
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AIMS
To deliver uplifting and
promotional taching and critical hea;th issues, including HIV/AIds and other life-threathening
disease
VENUES
The user's immediate
envirtonments, includfing public hospitals and clinics through broadcast, satellite,
web, DVD's and other means
LANGUAGE
All official languages
HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS:
include health care professionals and health workers with a focus on the different cadres of nurses,
lay health workers and
counsellors
LONG-TERM GOALS:
* Increased competence (knowledge, skills and values (to manage HIV/AIDS, TB and other diseases and
conditions
* Increase the success of
government/public prevention,
care, management and
treatment programmes of HIV/AIDS and other major
diseases.
Success relates to both
increased uptake of health services by patients and
improved health service
delivery by health-care
care providers
* Address inequalities in public and professional education and communication by using
technology
OBJECTIVES:
Outcomes of Health-care Professionals
* Increased competence (knowledge, skills and values) to manage HIV/AIDS, TB and other diseases and conditions
* Increased positive attitudes towards patients
* Increased motivation towards
heir work with patients
* Improvement knowledge and usage of IT (Information Technology and ICT (Information
& Communication Technology to assess health education and information outcomes outcomes for the public/patients
(Please refer to our
webpages Health &
Welfare & MICT Seta for training in this regard)
* Increased motivation to
take up public health
such as Voluntary
Counselling and Testing (VCD) and to
adhere to public health programmes
* Reduction in negative/
high risk behaviour
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Incorporated in this programme, is a course on The Fundamental Management of HIV/AIDS for Health-care workers and providers will be offered
* This course is aligned with the National Department of Health guidelines for HIV and AIDS management, as well as the principles for OBE
(Outcome-based education) and e-ducation of the National
Department of Education
* The course has been integrated in the pre-service education at nursery schools and is used for continuous professional development in health service establishments
* The course will be delivered via an electronic learner
management system (LMS) that will assist learners from initial
registration to final certification
* The course is also being aligned with SAQA (South
African Qualifications Authority)
TARGET AREAS for TASLY
HEALTH CENTRES
A total number of 200 Tasly Health Centres will be
operational by the end of 2012
A further 800 centres will be
introduced by the end of 2013
FOCUS
Tasly Quantum tests
Chinese Auriculotherapy
Mindset Health Channel
Main focus will be on Primary
Health Education and
Prevention of Chronic Disease
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Committee 20 community members 5
Tasly distributors 5
Youth 15
Nurses 2
ON-GOING TRAINING
Both the youth and the committee members will be trained in First Aid and Health Care
INCOME GENERATION
The Youth will be at the
spearhead of the sales of
the products, generating a lucrative monthly income.
Community will also become
involved in the project, thus generating an income
PLEASE CONTACT US SHOULD
YOU BE INTERESTED IN
ESTABLISHING A HEALTH
CENTRE IN YOUR AREA
By joining our quest to bridge
the gap, we are able to offer employment to a minimum of
15 youth per Health Centre
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