The Barefoot Teacher on the Telematic Highway - Serving Rural Communities in Kwa Zulu Natal
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The Department of Community Nursing and the Open Learning Centre of Technikon Natal (South Africa) and the community-owned Community Development Programme are collaborating to provide online learning to rural and urban community nurses. The project involves the development of a multimedia pharmacology course, a virtual Internet class, and the provision of information points (telecenters) in factories, rural police stations, refitted containers, and the like. This is a response to the acute need for training of community nurses operating under difficult conditions, with few resources, in primary health care settings in Kwa Zulu Natal (South Africa). (Author/MES) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. 1 The Barefoot Teacher on the Telematic Highway Serving Rural Communities in Kwa Zulu Natal PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY
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