Bursaries: Paediatric Post-basic Nursing

Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital Trust is offering Bursaries for Paediatric Post-basic Nursing Training in 2015

The Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital is a legacy project of the Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital Trust (NMCHT). The Trust is building a new children’s hospital in Johannesburg that will open its doors in mid-2016. This 200-bed quaternary care facility will be a state-of-the-art specialist paediatric academic referral hospital providing child-centered best quality surgical services to children of Southern Africa, irrespective of their social and economic status. In anticipation of the opening of the hospital in 2016, and with funding support received from the National Skills Fund (NSF), the Trust embarked on a skills development project that will see 382 nurses receiving specialist paediatric nurse training at postgraduate level over the next three years.

It is against this background that the Trust is now offering bursaries to South Africanregistered nurses wishing to specialise in paediatric nursing diplomas or short courses at postgraduate level in 2015.

The bursaries are available for both short (credit-bearing) courses and for postgraduate Nursing Training diplomas (1 or 2 years) at recognised and accredited South African universities.

The Trust is keen to hear from all postgraduate Nursing students interested in specialising in Paediatric Nursing, who are planning to further their studies in 2015 and who are self-funded. If you are a Registered Nurse with at least 2 years’ applicable experience and are in excellent health and you want to focus on one of the following areas of paediatric specialities:

• Neonatal Nursing
• Child Nursing
• Oncology Nursing
• Nephrology Nursing
• Intensive Care Nursing
• Operating Theatre Nursing

You are requested to carefully read our Bursary Agreement and our Administrative Requirements before completing the online application form (hard copies are also available on request) and more specifically, to note the post-study obligation to come and work back time equal to your period of studies at the Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital (in Johannesburg) when it opens its doors in mid-2016.

To assist with administrative efficiency, all bursary applications should ideally come through our website: www.nelsonmandelachildrenshospital.org You may also request application forms from Shaun at 087 150 2101 during office hours. Preference will be given to applicants from all designated groups and where possible, people with physical disabilities. Copies of CVs, qualifications and 3 work references will also be required and will be subject to third party scrutiny.

Bursary Application Closing Date: 15 November 2014

Please note that no further correspondence will take place until the Trust has determined which applicants have been shortlisted for interviews. Should you not have heard from the Trust within 2 weeks of submitting your bursary application, consider your application unsuccessful. The Trust reserves the right to NOT make any bursary awards. Bursary applicants who have been interviewed and to whom the Trust wishes to grant bursaries should note that they will also have to be accepted by the participating academic institutions.