10-04-2017, 08:59 PM
PREAMBLE:
Recruitment and selection of students in the Eastern Cape must ensure accessibility of nursing education programmes to both rural and urban candidates and alleviation of a gross shortage of nurses in the Province, especially in the remote rural areas.
GENERAL NOTES
Prospective students must meet the statutory minimum requirements based on the National Senior Certificate (NSC) or equivalent school leaving certificate for admission to higher certificate or diploma programmes and candidates educational certificate.
Provisional admission will be based on levels/symbols obtained in Grade 12 June/September examinations or confirmation that study leave is being processed by the current employer. However the final decision for studying at Lilitha College of Nursing will be based on final Grade 12 results, confirmation that the applicant has been granted study leave by the employer and has not reached the pensionable age (55-60) applicable to all college programmes;
There are specific requirements for all specific programmes.
Lilitha College of Nursing was created by the education and training of nurses and midwives Act 4 of 2003. The purpose of this Act was to:
Repeal various laws of apartheid which has established various colleges of nursing in the province of Eastern Cape;
Set up a single college with five (5) main campus and nineteen (19) Sous-campus in the province of Eastern Cape and strategically positioned to meet the training demands of nurses in health this system;
The programs are based on the requirements and priorities of the health system and the demography of the province. The college offers programs, basic nursing care and basic post, including specialized programs. He has always produced large volumes of nurses to allocate permanent clinical services for the province. The college embraces academic excellence in learning where generations of disciplinary knowledge are entrusted in the practice of nursing, research which concerns human health, disease and healing, experiments using community-based and practice with emphasis on the holistic relationship centered around a human approach that facilitates evidence-based the well-being of individuals.