Course Details

The prospects for the graduates of the HND in Healthcare Practice is that they can practice in different fields of healthcare with more focus on the clinical or community or management. Some of the potential career options include:

• Healthcare Assistant: Deal with patients and support nurses and doctors in the course of their work in hospitals, care homes, and other health care premises.
• Community Health Worker: Based in community, care for patients with health education for lifestyle changes, disease management and treatment.
• Mental Health Support Worker: Employment involves supporting clients with mental health problems and giving care services in hospitals, community or mental health services, etc.
• Health Promotion Specialist: With the aim of developing and implementing health education in order to reduce incidence of diseases in communities.
• Care Coordinator: Reference: Coordinated care and coordination of services to attend to these bigger-case patients.
• Public Health Officer: Employment in county or city health departments and agencies to investigate public health threats and to provide information about community health.
• Healthcare Administrator: Coordinate the Texas healthcare facilities administrative functions, people resources and financial as well as clinical services.
• Progression to Degree: On the completion of the HND, students may progress to the final year of a Bachelors Degree in Healthcare Practice, Nursing or any related field, hence broadening their opportunity base.
• Healthcare Manager: Graduates with further qualifications and experience may be promoted to organizational management of healthcare delivering different teams, resources and patient care services.
• Support Worker for Vulnerable Groups: Guard and protect from abuse and neglect those specific groups of people that need special attention – the elderly, the children and clients with the disability.