HSTi

Training Courses

HSTi presently offers accredited and non-accredited short courses and full programmes. As training needs are not static additional courses will be offered in future as needs and demand arise.

Non-Accredited Short Programmes

Training Courses
- Adult Primary Care (APC)
  This course is a symptom-based integrated clinical management tool using a series of algorithms and checklists. APC is intended to guide the management of common symptoms and chronic conditions in adults....
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- Basic Antenatal Care Plus (BANC Plus)
  This course is about discussion of the terminology used during pregnancy; the importance of antenatal care; and when antenatal care should start during pregnancy as well as the intervals of the follow-up visits....
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- Community Healthcare Stakeholder Engagement
  This course is about equipping healthcare workers with the requisite understanding, knowledge and skills to engage with local community stakeholders on healthcare needs....
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- Effective patient records management in hospitals and clinics
  This course is about the legislative framework for records management within healthcare facilities; challenges experienced in this regard within healthcare settings...
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- Health Information, Indicators and Analysis
  This course provides knowledge and skills for data collection, analysis, reporting and application of data for improving health service delivery....
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- HIV Counselling and Rapid testing
  This course is about HIV counselling and rapid testing to equip all healthcare providers and health workers with the knowledge and skills to perform HIV counselling and rapid testing....
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- Nurse Initiated Management of Anti-retroviral Treatment (NIMART)
  This course is about the entire spectrum of HIV. It includes the epidemiology, prevention, diagnosis and staging of HIV....
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- Orientation to Effective Pharmaceutical Management Gauteng
  This course provides an orientation for sustainable effective and efficient provision of medicine in public health facilities....
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- Research Methods for Health
  This course is about the basic concepts and research steps such as a literature review, study design, sampling, quantitative and qualitative research methods, research ethics, data collection and bias (confounding factors, reliability and validity)....
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- Wellness for Effective Leadership
  This course is about helping and empowering employees with the knowledge and skills to work effectively and efficiently in the health system....
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Accredited Skills Programmes

Training Courses
- Advance HIV and AIDS Counselling
  This course is intended for people who counsel specifically in the area of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)....
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- Community Development
  This course is about equipping the community health worker with an understanding of PHC and to facilitate and implement PHC projects in communities....
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- Counselling and Risk Behaviour
  This course will empower you with the knowledge and skills to identify high risk behaviour that may lead to HIV infections and other lifestyle diseases...
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- Dread Disease and HIV and AIDS Awareness
  This course is intended to enable lay people and healthcare workers to help individuals and groups to approach the HIV and AIDS pandemic, and any other dread disease, in an integrated way so that the condition may be managed satisfactorily....
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- Primary Health Care and Advocacy
  This course is about PHC in South Africa. It enables students to plan, implement, and manage community healthcare projects....
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Full NQF Programmes

Further Education and Training Certificate: Public Awareness Promotion of Dread Disease and HIV/AIDS
This qualification is intended to enable lay people and/or healthcare workers to help individuals and/or groups with HIV and AIDS, and any other dread disease, in a way that enhances the satisfactory management of the condition. ...
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Further Education and Training Certificate: Counselling
Unqualified counsellors currently work in situations where mental health Professionals are not easily accessible to the population. The counselling programme provides the knowledge and skills for lay counsellors. ...
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