Khassim Magala

A Medical clinical officer (MCO) is a gazetted practitioner of medicine who is trained and authorized to perform general or specialized medical duties such as diagnosis and treatment of disease and injury, ordering and interpreting medical tests, performing routine medical and surgical procedures and referring patients to other practitioners.  The clinical officers' basic training and practice is focused on the major essential specialties of medicine, surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology and community health (including health service management) and, unlike nurses and physician assistants, [6][7] a clinical officer is a gazetted officer with supervisory, managerial and executive functions who is legally authorized to prepare and sign medico-legal documents such as medical examination reports, sick notes, postmortem examination reports and death certificates on behalf of the state, and to appear in courts of law as an expert witness. For this reason, a clinical officer is usually the officer in-charge of a health center or a district hospital and is part of the medical team in bigger hospitals where one may head a department or work with a senior clinical officer or a physician.

Enrolled-Division 2 nursing provides the competencies to work as an enrolled nurse in a variety of institutional, community and health care settings as an associate to the registered nurse. More specifically, you will develop the skills, knowledge and attitudes required to: - relate the concepts of the person, environment and health to the safe and effective practice of nursing; - implement delegated nursing care by demonstrating the relationship between the concepts of activities of living and lifespan: - participate in an interdisciplinary health team to assist the individual to meet their needs; - implement nursing actions that promote, support and intervene when caring for people in a multicultural society; - you will develop the cultural awareness required for effective communication and cooperation with persons of diverse culture; - apply nursing actions which promote, support and reflect an understanding of the needs of the clients and communities with due regard to their beliefs and culture; - apply a problem-solving and evidence-based approach to nursing within the enrolled nurse's scope of practice; - practice within the legal and ethical standards of nursing based on professional codes of practice and state legislation; - perform nursing actions competently, based on sound scientific, technological, biological and behavioral principles; - demonstrate communication skills to enhance interpersonal relationships in clinical and community settings; - demonstrate attitudes relevant to the conceptual framework and philosophy that underpin nursing practice; - meet the physical, psychosocial, emotional and mental health needs of individuals; - apply the foundations of contemporary nursing practice and participate in professional review and development within a contemporary health care environment; - use critical thinking and analysis effectively and promote reflect