Abstract
M.Cur.
The aim with this study is to describe guidelines for curriculation, with primary health care as
departure point. This study is based on the Judeo-Christian human and world premise and
philosophy. The Nursing Theory for the Whole Person serves as meta-theoretic departure point,
while the theoretic assumptions are based on:
The Nursing Theory for the Whole Person (Oral Roberts University, Anna Vaughn School of
Nursing, 1990).
Van Niekerk's, Accompaniment Guidelines for Theory - Practice Correlation (1993).
Curriculation Models of Malan & Jorrisen (1990) and Uys (1983).
Klopper's Model for Accompanied selfstudy in Nursing Science (1994).
The Botes's Model for Research in Nursing Science serves as methodological departure point
(1991). Emphasis is placed on participative decision making regarding basic needs, including health care,
within the ideology of the new Government of National unity (ANC, 1994:45)
The Reconstruction and Development Programme, (RDP) accepted within the new political
dispensation of South Africa, supports primary health care as total departure point, such as the
National health Plan (ANC, 1994: 45). This, however, is not a new concept in health care services.
The South African Nursing Council (SANC) has been supporting this principle for a considerable
time. However there is little or no existing literature regarding the curriculation of the four year
diploma programme, with primary health care as the departure point.
This Qualitative study is executed in four phases. The first and second phase explore and describe
the perceptions and interpretations of the share holders of the curriculum, in respect of primary
health care as departure point, within curriculums, in terms of focus group interviews. The third phase describes a conceptual framework, according to a comprehensive literature study. Phase four
describes guidelines for the facilitation of meso and micro curriculation, with primary health care as
departure point, in respect of inferential data obtained from focus group interviews, the literature
study and conceptual framework.
The study's unique contribution, within the context of the Mpumalanga region is embodied in the
manner in which the researcher succeeds to describe guidelines for curriculation for the four year
diploma programme, that leads to registration as Professional Nurse (General-, Psychiatric-, and
Community-) and Midwife, with primary health care as the departure point. This was achieved
through inductive deliberation and cross triangulation in all four phases, which increases the
trustworthiness of the study.