Babongile Zuke
NURSE SPECIALIST (PHC)
Benoni
Summary
Dedicated and compassionate Primary Health Nurse Specialist (CNS) known for delivering exceptional patient care and fostering collaborative team environments. Strong skills in clinical assessments, patient education, and emergency response. Reliable and adaptable, consistently meeting patient needs and contributing positively to healthcare outcomes. Demonstrates empathy, effective communication, and commitment to continuous learning.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
2
2
Languages
Work History
Professional Nurse
Phillip Moyo Community Health Centre
01.2017 - Current
- Lead and supervise staff in the absence of managers, ensuring smooth shift operations. By delegating daily duties according to the scope of practice, ensuring there are sufficient staff members per shift, leave monitoring, and ensuring that there are adequate resources.
- Address patient and staff grievances and conflicts in line with ethical standards, PSI guidelines, and conflict management guidelines.
- Ensuring quality reporting of statistics by ticking appropriately on the DHIS tick register and verifying statistics before they are submitted.
- Participate in audits, develop quality improvement plans, implement and review interventions within the set time frame.
- Adhering to infection prevention and control (IPC) measures by ensuring that waste is segregated and disposed of correctly. Sharps containers are labelled and not filled up to the brim, and proper hand-washing techniques is practiced.
- Participating in Phuthuma and Nerve Center Meetings to support service delivery improvements, receive updates on targets reached for the month, and for an overview of how the facility is performing.
- Providing comprehensive PHC services, including acute, emergency, maternal, child, and mental healthcare, by conducting clinical assessments, diagnosing, prescribing, and managing patients in accordance with APC and standard treatment guidelines, protocols, and the scope of practice.
- Providing integrated management of adult and pediatric chronic diseases (HIV/ AIDS, TB, non-communicable diseases, and mental health) and ensuring adherence and retention in care by referring clients to differential models of care and offering HIV/TB Testing and counselling to contacts and indexes.
- Contributing to the recall of treatment interrupters to care by informing the WBOT early about the number of treatment interrupters for the day.
- Re-engaging HIV/AIDS, TB, and non-communicable chronic diseases patients to care in alignment with the welcome back strategy.
- Providing preventive integrated health services, including immunizations, family planning, cervical cancer screening, TB screening, diabetes and hypertension screening, and mental health education.
- Offering HIV/AIDS, TB, and diabetes test and treatment by doing pre- and post-counselling, and initiation of prep prophylaxis or antiretrovirals for the management and prevention of HIV.
- Stabilizing emergencies in accordance with basic life support principles, emergency management algorithms, and the essential drug lists, and referring to the hospital where appropriate.
- Preventing vertical transmission by advocating for early ANC booking for HIV positive mothers, testing HIV and pregnancy in all women who are of childbearing age, and encouraging non-HIV pregnant women, non-pregnant women, and men who are sexually active to be on HIV prophylaxis.
- Integrating IMCI and EPI by ensuring that the sick baby's card is updated, growth is monitored on every visit, and managed accordingly by referring to allied services where appropriate, and continuously screening for TB and HIV/AIDS symptoms.
- Providing in-service training for staff members on training and updated guidelines.
Education
DS-TB training -
02.2026
Differential models of care - undefined
11.2025
Standard CPR & AED - undefined
03.2025
Postgraduate Diploma in Primary Health Care - undefined
11.2024
Adult Primary Care (APC) - undefined
09.2022
COVID-19 Vaccination Training - undefined
04.2022
Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI) - undefined
10.2021
NIMART Training - undefined
03.2019
Dispensing Course - undefined
02.2019
Bachelor of Nursing (BCur) - undefined
11.2016
Skills
Motivational leadership skills
Experienced in managing and controlling PHC operations
Strong written communication skills
Quality enhancement
Empathetic support
Evidence-based judgment
Data sourcing
Emotional intelligence
Analytical research skills
Timeline
Professional Nurse - Phillip Moyo Community Health Centre
01.2017 - Current
WITS HRI - Differential models of care,
National CPR Foundation - Standard CPR & AED,
University of Johannesburg - Postgraduate Diploma in Primary Health Care,
Knowledge Hub - Adult Primary Care (APC),
Knowledge Hub - COVID-19 Vaccination Training,
Aquah Training School - Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI),
The Aurum Institute - NIMART Training,
Sefako Makgatho University - Dispensing Course,
University of Johannesburg - Bachelor of Nursing (BCur),
Gauteng Department of Health - DS-TB training,