This course, tailored for healthcare professionals in WC Primary Care, focuses on notifiable medical conditions and surveillance, equipping health care workers with essential knowledge for effective disease monitoring and reporting. 

About the course

  • Course Design: Self-directed

  • Duration: It will take 5 hours to complete.

  • Eligibility for this course:
    • Professional nurses & Primary Care Nurses registered with SANC
    • Medical officer registered with HPCSA
    • Pharmacists registered with SAPC
    • Working in Western Cape

  • Accreditation: HPCSA: 5 clinical CPD points - Level 1. WCDHW Nursing accredited: 3 CPD points in Area of Practice.

  • Certification: Participants need 75% pass mark tor final quiz.

  • Published: February 2024

Course curriculum

This course covers the following content:

  • Lesson 1: Mobile app: Introduction, registration and password reset 
    • Introduction
    • NMC regulations
    • List of Category 1 NMCs
    • List of Category 2 NMCs
    • List of Category 3 NMCs
    • List of Category 4 NMCs
    • Access to NMC Mobile App
    • Responsibilities & Misconceptions
    • NMC Electronic system benefits
    • How to access & install NMCSS App: Android
    • Registration process
      • Facility based/ Role based/ Private practice
    • Password reset
  • Lesson 2: Web-based: Introduction, registration and password reset
    • Registration process: Facility based/ Role based/ Private practice
    • Password reset
  • Lesson 3 : Paper-based Notifications
    • Notifiable medical conditions
    • NMC regulations
    • NMC categories
    • Notification tool: case notification form
    • Notification lines
    • Responsibilities
    • NMC brochure-Web address

Improved NMCSS Electronic Application:

  • Lesson 4: Mobile: New case notification and view/edit case
    • Capture new case
    • View/edit case
    • Case searching
    • NMC summary
  • Lesson 5: Web-based: New case notification and view/edit case
    • Capture new case
    • Capture hospitalization data 
    • View/edit case
    • Case searching
  • Lesson 6: Web-based: Linking type change request
    • Changing linking type: Facility / Role

Notifiable Medical Conditions case definition and clinical procedure training

  • Lesson 7: Category 1
    • One health approach
    • WHO is NICD-stakeholders
    • NMC regulations
    • Who should notify & failure to notify
    • NMC category 1
    • Case definitions and procedures
  • Lesson 8: Category 2
    • List of category 2 NMCs
    • NMC category 2 case definitions


Western Cape Government Department of Health and Wellness
People Development Centre

Acknowledgements:

  • National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD)
  • Washiefa Isaacs