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National Certificate :
Comminuty 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
Deonstrate 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 with
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 investigate 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 nowledge 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
Additional training available from Rainbow Children Multipurpose Institute
MICT/ISETT Seta
all aspects of Computer and IT training
ETDP Seta
Assessor & Moderator training
Services Seta
Domestic Services, Secretarial &
Business Administration
Wholesale & Retail Seta
Skills Development training
Wholesale & Retail OPerations
CETA (Construction Seta)
Physical Planning & Construction,
Road building training
SASSETA (Safety & Security)
Security guard training
Policing
Resolving of Crime training
First Aid training
SASSETA equivalent of PSIRA grades
Health & Welfare Seta
Community health work training
Clinics - to be opened
Umalusi
ABET training -
English, Mathematics & Economics
Our Rainbow Children Social Development
Non Profit Organisation (NPO)
Bhekizizwe Security
Security guards, investigations &
Community Watch
www.rainbowchildren.co.za |
AIMS:
To deliver uplifting education and promotion on critical health issues, including HIV and AIDS and Tuberculosis (TB) on a mass scale
VENUES:
The user's immediate environments, including public hospitals and clinics through broadcast, satellite,
web, DVD's and other means
LANGUAGE:
All official languages
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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
and AIDS, TB and other diseases
and conditions
* Increase the success of
government/public prevention, care,
management amd treatment
programmes of HIV and 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
and AIDS, TB and other diseases
and conditions
* Increased positive attitudes
towards patients
* Increased motivation towards their
work with patients
* Improvement knowledge and usage
of IT (Information Technology and
ICT (Information & Communication
Technology to assess health
education and information and
information outcomes for the
public/patients
(Please refer to our webpages Health & Walfare and MICT Seta for training in this regard)
* Increased motivation to take up
public health services such as
Voluntary Counselling and Testing
(VCD) and to adhere to public
health programmes
* Recdution in negative/high risk
behaviour
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Incorporated in this programme, is a course on The Fundamental Management of HIV and 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-education of the
National Department of Education
* The course has been integrated in
the pre-service education at
nursery schools and is used for
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 0f 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
Tasly distributors : 5
Youth : 15
Nurses : 2
(Total number of jobs created per community centre totals seventeen (17)
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 income per month. 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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