Health Sciences
AdvDip Advanced Diploma in Technical and Vocational Teaching
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
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Health Sciences
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Nurses work collaboratively with physicians, therapists, patients and families and focus on treating illness to improve quality of life. The Bachelor of Nursing degree prepares professionals for general nursing and midwifery practice. Nursing combines compassion, knowledge and sophisticated health technology to restore, maintain and promote the health of individuals, groups, or communities. Nursing is both an art and a science: caring, compassionate relationships blended with the development and application of nursing knowledge, techniques and ethics.
Faculty: Health Sciences | Department: Therapeutic Sciences | Duration: 4 years | Study mode: full-time | Location: Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
First-year; Introduction to Medical Sciences; Human Behavioural Sciences I; Integrated General Nursing Sciences I; Anatomy for Nursing Sciences I; Second-year; Physiology and Medical Biochemistry; Microbiology; Integrated General Nursing Sciences II; Third-year; Pharmacology; Midwifery I; Integrated General Nursing Sciences III; Fourth-year; Midwifery II; Integrated General Nursing Sciences IV
General Nursing Child Nursing Intensive Care Nursing Nursing Education Nephrology Nursing Oncology and Palliative Nursing Psychiatric Nursing Research Trauma and emergency nursing Midwife
NSC Requirements English Home Language OR First Additional Language Level 4 Mathematics Level 4 Life Sciences AND/OR Physical Sciences Level 4 The Faculty of Health Sciences uses a Composite Index (CI) score to guide applicant selection. This includes: Your matric academic results for five subjects: English, Mathematics, best of Physical Sciences/Life Sciences and the best two other subjects. We consider the percentage achieved, not the symbol. The average of the five subjects carries a 75% weighting. National Benchmark Test (NBT) scores. The average of the NBT scores carries a 25% weighting. All applicants must write the NBT at one of the Pencil and Paper, i.e. IN-PERSON NBT sessions. Online NBT results will not be considered. The NBT should be written by 17 August. Applicants applying to the Graduate Entry Medical Programme (GEMP) and/or Graduate Entry Physiotherapy Programme (GEPP) on
Tuition is charged per module, so the total depends on the modules you register for each year. Current fees are listed in the official fee schedule.
Postgraduate applications are made online at www.wits.ac.za/applications; the closing date for each programme is listed in its course finder entry. The application fee is R200 (not payable by current Wits students applying online), paid via the Self-Service Portal or by EFT to the Wits University Application Fees account at FNB.
Apply through the official page: https://www.wits.ac.za/applications
Health Sciences
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Health Sciences
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Health Sciences
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Health Sciences
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Health Sciences
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Health Sciences
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
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