Module 3: Routine Care at Birth
Ruth Davidge
This module focuses on the routine practices that should be performed for every newborn, including thermal protection, hygiene, and early initiation of breastfeeding.
Module 4: Golden Minute
Ruth Davidge
The Golden Minute is the first 60 seconds after birth, which are critical for assessing and assisting newborns who are not breathing. This module provides a step-by-step approach to immediate newborn care and resuscitation.
Module 2: Nurturing Care & Communication
Ruth Davidge
This module explores the role of nurturing care in newborn development and emphasizes the importance of caregiver communication and bonding in the early postnatal period.
Module 6: Risk Assessment and Examination
Ruth Davidge
This module covers how to assess newborn risk factors and perform comprehensive physical exams to identify early signs of complications requiring further care.
Monitoring the Condition of the Mother During the First Stage of Labour
Prof G Theron, Prof H van C de Groot, Dr D Greenfield, Prof D Woods, Ms H Louw, Ms M Petersen, Dr N Rhoda, Prof GS Gebhardt, Prof DR Hall, Dr HA Swart, Dr CA Cluver.
Monitoring Maternal Wellbeing During Labour: This course equips learners with skills to monitor maternal health during the first stage of labour using clinical observations and the partogram. Focus is placed on recognizing abnormal patterns and intervening appropriately to support safe delivery.
Monitoring and Managing the First Stage of Labour
Prof G Theron, Prof H van C de Groot, Dr D Greenfield, Prof D Woods, Ms H Louw, Ms M Petersen, Dr N Rhoda, Prof GS Gebhardt, Prof DR Hall, Dr HA Swart, Dr CA Cluver.
Managing Poor Progress and Cord Prolapse in Labour: This course teaches learners to monitor and manage labour progression, especially when it deviates from the norm. It covers evaluation techniques, interpreting partograms, and emergency management of complications such as cord prolapse.
Managing Pain During Labour
Prof G Theron, Prof H van C de Groot, Dr D Greenfield, Prof D Woods, Ms H Louw, Ms M Petersen, Dr N Rhoda, Prof GS Gebhardt, Prof DR Hall, Dr HA Swart, Dr CA Cluver.
Pain Relief and Anaesthesia in Labour: This course explores pain management options during labour, including the use of drugs and preparation for general anaesthesia. Learners will understand the benefits, risks, and practical administration of analgesia in childbirth.
Communication
Dr D H Greenfield, Prof G Theron, Prof H de Groot, Ms H Louw, Dr N Rhoda, Ms M Petersen, Prof P Henning, Prof C Pieper, Dr A Horn, Dr M Hann.
Build skills in communicating with parents and healthcare teams, promoting bonding, managing bereavement, organising transfers, and assessing regional perinatal health.
Trauma and Bleeding
Dr D H Greenfield, Prof G Theron, Prof H de Groot, Ms H Louw, Dr N Rhoda, Ms M Petersen, Prof P Henning, Prof C Pieper, Dr A Horn, Dr M Hann.
Recognise and manage birth trauma and neonatal bleeding disorders, including haemorrhagic disease and other common causes of neonatal haemorrhage.
PCM M7: Headache
Primary Care International (PCI)
Headaches are common reasons for consultations in primary care. Approximately half of the adult population globally is affected by a headache disorder each year. This unit will use a case-based approach to managing headaches in primary care.
PCM M7: Knee Pain and Osteoarthritis
Primary Care International (PCI)
Knee pain is a common pain presentation in primary care. Many clinicians find it challenging to diagnose and manage this type of pain. This unit will use a case-based approach to the differential diagnosis of knee pain and its management in primary care.
Module 1 - Step 1 Analysing the Rhythm
Dr Phinda Njisane
The heart's electrical activity must originate somewhere, and rhythm provides critical information about its origin, timing, and frequency. But what exactly is rhythm, and how do we describe it? This module explores these questions and more. You will practice analysing rhythm strips, describing rhythms on an ECG, and understandi....
Module 0 - Foundations
Dr Phinda Njisane
A basic understanding of cardiac anatomy and physiology is essential for effectively interpreting and understanding ECGs. This module covers key topics, including cardiac anatomy, the conduction system, the cardiac cycle, the ECG trace, the hexaxial reference system, and ECG paper.
PCM M2 Common Telehealth Mistakes
Primary Care International (PCI)
Here will explore how to avoid common telehealth mistakes.
NCD Operations M4: Action Plans
Mr WCEA Administrator
It is now time to put all of your learning into practice by developing an action plan for improving the care of NCD patients in your setting.
PCM M2 Digital Literacy
Primary Care International (PCI)
Here will explore digital health consultations.
Module 2 - Step 2 Describing the P Wave
Dr Phinda Njisane
The p wave represents atrial depolarisation. What information can be gleaned from observing the p wave and what approach should one use when describing it? In this module you will practise how to describe the P wave and how to interpret your findings by looking at some examples.
Module 4 - Step 4 Assessing the QRS Complex
Dr Phinda Njisane
The QRS complex represents ventricular depolarisation. By examining the QRS complex, we can identify potential structural or conduction abnormalities within the ventricles. In this module, you will learn how to describe and analyse the QRS complex to detect and understand these abnormalities.
Behavioral Counselling and Motivational Interviewing for Tobacco Cessation
Brenda Cecilia Gumbo
This module strengthens nurses’ and midwives’ counselling competencies by focusing on evidence-based behavioral interventions and motivational interviewing techniques for tobacco cessation. It emphasizes stage-matched counselling, effective communication, relapse prevention, weight-gain concerns, and referral pathways to cessati....
Assessing and Managing Tobacco Dependence
Alexander Thomas Mboma
This module provides practical clinical skills for assessing and managing tobacco dependence as a chronic condition. It equips nurses and midwives with tools to screen, assess severity using validated instruments, tailor pharmacologic and behavioral interventions, and manage withdrawal symptoms effectively. Emphasis is placed....
Fungal Infections
Tumanye Samson Senior Medical Clinical Officer
Presentation on fungal infections and their management
Law, Ethics and Safeguarding in Dementia Care
Danielle Woods and Jan Robins
This session provides an overview of your duty of care to ensure safe practice. It describes the requirements of the Mental Capacity Act which include that you are to always act in the best interests of people living with dementia who may lack capacity to make a particular decision. It discusses the requirement that you can reco....
Dementia Risk, Reduction and Prevention
Jan Oyebode and Dr Sahdia Parveen
This session looks at how behaviour in adult life may link with risks of developing certain types of dementia and how lifestyle change may delay onset or slow progression. It examines what factors affect people's ability to make lifestyle changes, how to convey key messages and how to signpost people to support for making change....
Communication, Interaction and Behaviour in Dementia Care
Lindsey Collins
This session will introduce ways to facilitate effective communication with people living with dementia. It will help you to understand the communicative impairments as well as the retained abilities that individuals with dementia may experience and the variety of ways people with dementia may communicate their needs and prefere....
Dementia Identification, Assessment and Diagnosis
Murna Downs
This session explores the identification, assessment and diagnosis of dementia and the benefits of an early diagnosis. Later, it will investigate what the assessment process entails and how it is experienced by people with dementia, stressing why it is important to ensure sensitive, person-centred assessment and appropriate and....