Dates: 27 January 2025 to 25 May 2025
Venue: Fully online with VULA (UCT's E- Learning Platform)
​Time: 16-week course consisting of a range of teaching and learning activities, requiring approximately 3-4 hours weekly. All activities completed in your own time, ensuring maximum flexibility.

Course fee is R 7 560 person (Includes full online access to course material and support from specialist Children’s Nursing educators)

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Entry Requirements: Registered Nurses (Professional and Enrolled).You must be currently, either regularly or occasionally, working with sick newborns. You may work at any level of health facility; you do not need to work in a neonatal high or intensive care or neonatal specific ward.

This course aims to introduce nurses working with sick newborns to essential knowledge and skills. An assessment of clinical skills competence in the participants clinical setting is recommended. 

The course is run by the Harry Crossley Children’s Nursing Development Unit in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Cape Town.

Course Content:

1.    An understanding of anatomical, physiological and developmental differences for different gestational age and weight of newborns, and how this impacts the response to illness and the required nature of care.
2.    An ability to provide safe, quality, evidence-based nursing care to sick newborns, using the Regul8 Framework as a guide.
3.    A recognition of the important supportive role and resource of the principal caregiver and the ability to provide care for both the newborn, their family and themselves in acute and highly stressful situations.
4.    An understanding of their role and the complex system and environments where newborns are nursed, to ensure safe and efficient care and the best possible hospital outcomes.

A digital certificate of participation will be issued to participants who have completed and submitted all learning activities and assignments to an adequate standard.

Please note that places on the course are limited. Apply early as places are allocated on a “first come, first served” basis.

Last date for applications: Friday 27 September 2024

N.B. If offered a place, FULL payment is required by 1 November 2024. Failure to make payment by this date will result in loss of your place on the course. Limited African Paediatric Fellowship (non-SA) bursaries available.

For more information contact cndu@uct.ac.za or visit their website

Only participants registered for the course will be eligible to attend. Limited space available