Abstract: | This research project, undertaken in the Departmet of Nursing Science at UNISA between 1978 and 1981, focusses on nursing education in general and in particular on nurses as post-registration students furthering their education through the medium of teletuition in the non-residential academic setting offered by UNISA. Objectives: To look critically at, and construct profiles of, nursing students at UNISA in a nontraditional teaching and learning situation, namely teletuition; to highlight the problems, rewards and opinions of the learners and their employers while gathering information for future planning; to review the students' past contributions to the health services, their levels of achievement and the projected benefits of their learning in providing an improved service; to evaluate South Africa's concept of continuing education for nurses as offered traditionally and to examine the unique concept of teletuition for nurses in the light of contemporary developments. Ref., sum. (also in Afrikaans, French, German). |