COURSES OFFERED BY ROBERT SOBUKWE NURSING ACADEMY

A home based carer provides supervised care and support to patients and household members in the home, in order to promote, restore and maintain a person’s comfort, function, spiritual wellbeing and physical health including care towards a dignified death.

Observing, monitoring and recording patients' conditions by taking temperatures, pulse, respirations and weight, communication with patients, relatives and Health Care Professionals.

First Aid refers to the help that a sick or injured person receives until full medical treatment is available. Being able to perform first aid is a simple skill that can have an incredibly positive impact – from providing a casualty with reassurance to saving their life.

This course teaches you to inform and counsel clients pre-testing, help clients create a risk reduction plan tailored to them and their HIV status post-testing – as well as providing information around other health issues (including, TB, STIs, hypertension and diabetes).