Inge Harlen is the Training Programme Manager for Right to Care. Inge joinged Right to Care as a clinical case manager in April 2005 with no previous exposure to managing patients infected with HIV.
A year in case management and having completed the HIV management course for nurses, Inge’s passion for training was stirred when she saw the need to train. Before moving into the training team, she had already started training on the non-medical course on HIV and then started designing and training the HIV Management course for registered nurses. Officially, she moved over to the training department in April 2006. In February 2008, she went onto becoming the Training Programme Manager, the first of its kind at Right to Care.
Since joining the training department, Inge has designed, compiled, edited, and implemented, 14 training programmes.
Her areas of interest in the field of HIV are to assist all staff to grasp the subject content of HIV in an easier, simpler way to enhance knowledge provided to friends, family, patients, and colleagues. “Knowledge is power and if you know better you do better.”
Inge is on an internal management programme and hopes to study project management in the near future.
Inge has a National Secretarial Certificate from Tygerberg Technical College. From BG Alexander Nursing College has obtained three qualifications, namely, a four-year Diploma in Nursing (1990), a Certificate: Trauma and Emergency Nursing (1992), and Diploma in Intensive Nursing Science (1994).
From the Netcare Training Academy, Inge obtained a Diploma: Medical and Surgical Nursing (2000). From Unisa, she completed a Nursing Education course in 2006 and then an HIV/AIDS Care & Counselling course in 2007.
In addition, Inge has completed numerous short courses.