Development of a training programme for professional nurses in South Africa - An educational response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Aim: This paper describes the development of the training programme for South African professional nurses on how to manage critically ill COVID-19 patients in intensive care units and repurposed general wards.

Design And Methods: The Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Evaluation educational instructional design model guided the development of the training programme. A case-based study approach and blended learning were used to deliver the six modules.

Ten years of nurse-initiated antiretroviral treatment in South Africa: A narrative review of enablers and barriers.

Background: The roll out of nurse-initiated and managed antiretroviral treatment (NIMART) was implemented in 2010 by the National Department of Health (NDoH) in South Africa in response to the large numbers of persons living with HIV who needed treatment. To enable access to treatment requires shifting the task from doctors to nurses, which had its own challenges, barriers and enablers.

Objectives: The aim of this narrative is to review content on the implementation of NIMART in South Africa over the period 2010-2020, with a focus on enablers and barriers to the implementation.