title: The significance of secondary school education for education and training of nurses in South Africa.
abstract: This paper examines current basic nursing education in South Africa and suggests that problems in the secondary school education of Black recruits affect their later training potential as professional nurses. It reports the move towards the transfer of nurse training into higher education from 1986 in South Africa. Black nurses' learning and studying difficulties are considered in the light of their high failure rate in the South African Nursing Council qualifying examinations. It is agreed that in order to prepare the high number of qualified Black nurses required by South Africa within the tertiary education sector from 1986, special attention would need to be paid to secondary education provision for Blacks.
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American; D044383:Black People; D004493:Education / Q000592:standards; D004506:Education, Nursing; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D005178:Faculty / Q000592:standards / Q000600:supply & distribution; D006801:Humans; D013019:South Africa; D013332:Student Dropouts; D013338:Students, Nursing; D013663:Teaching