Training unit at regional hospital to develop nursing students
Clinical Education and Training Unit opened at Port Shepstone Regional Hospital will improve nursing services and improve clinical practises.
Port Shepstone Regional Hospital nursing management welcomed Benedictine Hospital staff, Ruphus Zulu, a Clinical Education and Training Unit (CETU) coordinator and Winfred Nompumelelo Jozi, a clinical facilitator from Kwa-Nongoma under Zululand District to benchmark the establishment of a CETU at the hospital recently.
In line with the new three-year diploma curriculum for nursing training by the Higher Education Council of South Africa, Port Shepstone Regional Hospital committed to establishing a CETU in September 2020. The aim of the unit was to ensure that the education of nursing students who are placed by the Nursing College is integrated with practical training.
The hospital’s PRO, Phumza Morai said that this does not mean that Port Shepstone Hospital will become a nursing college, but rather a healthcare facility that collaborates with the Nursing College in teaching and developing nursing students.
“The development of this unit necessitated the employment of clinical preceptors and a clinical programme coordinator who will play a vital role in ensuring that the nursing students meet their learning objectives.
“The hospital’s clinical preceptors Samantha Etty and Vimla Naicker will work in the unit and will deal with the curriculum, day-to-day accompaniment of nursing students and the delivery of all CETU’s monthly activities to the clinical programme coordinator, Sister Nontembiso Guga, who further submits the reports to the hospital nursing management and the nursing college.”
Morai said through this inter-professional learning and collaborative practice by the CETU, the community can look forward to better health outcomes for patients, improved clinical practise and service delivery.
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