Empilweni Nursing College offers a number of health-related courses. Here are some of the courses offered by Empilweni Nursing College.
- Enrolled Nurse Auxiliary (ENA) – This is a 2-year program that prepares students to become competent and professional nurses who can provide quality healthcare services to patients.
- Enrolled Nurse (EN) – This is a 2-year program that builds on the ENA program and prepares students to become registered nurses who can provide comprehensive nursing care to patients.
- Bridging course for Enrolled Nurses (Bridging EN) – This is a 1-year program that allows enrolled nurses who have completed the EN program to upgrade their qualification to a registered nurse.
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) – This is a 4-year degree program that prepares students to become professional nurses who can provide high-quality healthcare services to patients.
- Postgraduate Diploma in Nursing Education (PGDNE) – This is a 1-year program that prepares nurses who have completed their BSN to become nursing educators.
- Postgraduate Diploma in Nursing Administration and Management (PGDNAM) – This is a 1-year program that prepares nurses who have completed their BSN to become nursing managers and administrators.
Other courses offered are as follows
- Early Childhood Development Practitioner: An Early Childhood Development Practitioner plans and prepares early childhood activities, facilitates and mediates learning, observes and assesses the progress of children, and reflects on learning in an inclusive, play-based environment to support holistic development of children (from conception – school going) in different centre-based or non-centre based settings.
- Home Based Personal Care Worker: Home Based Carers provide supervised care and support to patients and their immediate family’s/household members in the home and appropriate community-based settings in order to promote, restore and maintain a person’s maximum level of comfort, function, and health including care towards a dignified death.
- Home Based Personal Care Assistant: Home Based Care Assistants provide basic physical and emotional support to patients. They work under the direct supervision of a professional supervisor. This qualification allows the learner to work as an assistant home-based carer and focuses predominantly on practical aspects of care.
- Basic Life Support And First Aid Procedures (First Aid Level 1): This course equips learners to assess an emergency situation and perform the necessary basics to sustain life while awaiting emergency services’ intervention.
- Basic Firefighting: On successful completion of this course, learners will be capable of identifying, containing, preventing and extinguishing different types of fires by operating basic firefighting equipment.
- Emergency Preparedness And Response: This course enables learners to distinguish between various types of emergencies and incidents and explains different emergency alarms, procedures for responding to these alarms and the processes to be applied in an assembly area after an alarm.
The courses offered at Empilweni Nursing College are accredited by the South African Nursing Council (SANC) and are recognized both locally and internationally.
For a more comprehensive list of courses and further information, you can visit their official website or contact the institution directly.