South African Military Services (SAMS) - 2012 The Knowledge Translation Unit was contracted to assist the SAMS by equipping nurses and other health professionals working in primary care clinics with PALSA PLUS guidelines and training. The participants were eager to learn and positive about this new approach ... (read the full story)
Primary care guidelines and training in Botswana - 2012 The University of Botswana are another recipient of MEPI and through their department of family Medicine, are piloting an initiative to strengthen and expand medical education at the UB School of Medicine... (read the full story)
Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) - 2011 Stellenbosch University is a recipient from this initiative and PALSA PLUS has been introduced into the undergraduate training programme for medical students with the objective to enhance the teaching and learning experience of the students to increase exposure to critical elements of primary health and related issues, in order to prepare them for a career in rural medicine...(read the full story)
National PALSA PLUS – 22 December 2011 On 1 December 2009 President Zuma announced renewed efforts to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa. This call was followed through by Dr Motsoaledi, the South African National Minister of Health, and targets were issued to institute the HIV/AIDS expansion program which included a massive upscale of HIV Counselling and Testing (HCT) and improved access for the many people with HIV who qualified for antiretroviral treatment ...(read the full story)
National PALSA PLUS – 1 July 2009 Since the inception of PALSA in 2005, the vision of Lara Fairall and her team in the KTU has been to expand and persevere in the quest to contribute to improving the quality of healthcare delivered by nurses in Primary Health Care facilities. Soon after PALSA had been successfully implemented in the Free State and found to make a significant difference to health outcomes, it was expanded to PALSA PLUS to include HIV/AIDS and STIs. ...(read the full story)
Nurse educators' workshop 2008 - November 2008 The second annual Nurse Educators’ workshop was held from the 17th – 19th November 2008 at the University of Cape Town Lung Institute. 21 nurse educators and mentors from Free State (3) and Western Cape (18) Provinces representing 3 nursing institutions were welcomed by a PALSA PLUS team comprising members from the Knowledge Translation Unit (KTU) and Beryl Green and Anneline Janse van Rensburg, two PALSA PLUS trainers from the Western Cape and Tsotsa Polinyane, the PALSA PLUS coordinator from the Free State. ...(read the full story)
PALSA PLUS crosses the SA border - May 2008 The KTU PALSA PLUS introduction to Dignitas International (DI) in Malawi came from Merrick Zwarenstein (our partner in Canada, whom you have seen on our DVD, Changing Practice: The PALSA PLUS Story). As the DI website states, they are ‘a pioneering medical humanitarian organization working with communities to dramatically increase access to life-saving treatment and prevention in areas overwhelmed by HIV/AIDS’. We really saw this in action with their decentralization of ARV care to the districts and community based programmes. ...(read the full story)
Nurses start prescribing ARVs in South Africa - 13 December 2007 Three clinics involved in the STRETCH programme in the Free State are the first clinics in the country to have registered nurses re-prescribing antiretrovirals (ARVs) to patients who have been stabilized on treatment. ...(read the full story)
Knowledge Translation Unit launches PALSA PLUS documentary at Lung Health Conference
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8 November 2007 The University of Cape Town Lung Institute’s Knowledge Translation Unit has launched a documentary on their PALSA PLUS programme to coincide with the 38th World Conference on Lung Health being held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre until 12 November.
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“ Because as a student… I mean, it’s difficult to know everything. I mean, you just learn so that you can pass at the end of the day. But now, when you come here [to the clinic] as a new registered nurse, it’s very difficult because you have to be on your own and you don’t know everything. So now the PALSA PLUS… you don’t have to memorise. You just go through the book and then you find everything that you’re looking for. And the treatment and everything, I think it’s very nice.” PALSA PLUS nurse
