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Registered Nurse (Mental Health)
OFO Code: 222110
Last checked 7 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 222110
- Occupation
- Registered Nurse (Mental Health)
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- PROFESSIONALS
- Unit group
- 2221 · Nursing Professionals
Official description
Nursing professionals provide treatment, support and care services for people who are in need of nursing care due to the effects of ageing, injury, illness or other physical or mental impairment, or potential risks to health. They assume responsibility for the planning and management of the care of patients, including the supervision of other health care workers, working autonomously or in teams with medical doctors and others in the practical application of preventive and curative measures.
More official OFO detail
Specialisations: Child and Adolescence Mental Health Nurse, Psychiatric Nurse, Drug and Alcohol Nurse, Psychopaedic Nurse, Psychiatric Rehabilitation Nurse, Psychogeriatric Care Nurse
- Developing and implementing care plans for the biological, social, and psychological treatment of patients in collaboration with other health professionals
- Supervising and coordinating the work of other nursing, health and personal care workers
- Coordinating the care of patients in consultation with other health professionals and members of health teams
- Monitoring pain and discomfort experienced by patients and alleviating pain using a variety of therapies, including the use of pain-killing drugs
- Planning, providing and evaluating nursing care for patients according to the practice and standards of modern nursing
- Cleaning wounds and applying surgical dressings and bandages
- Planning and providing personal care, treatments and therapies including administering medications, and monitoring responses to treatment or care plan
- Answering questions from patients and families and providing information about prevention of ill-health, treatment and care
- Planning and participating in health education programmes, health promotion and nurse education activities in clinical and community settings
- Conducting research on nursing practices and procedures and disseminating findings such as through scientific papers and report
2. Demand status
Demand evidence unavailable
No approved governed OIHD graph relationship is available on this deployment for this OFO code.
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3. Salary evidence
No approved governed salary observation or sourced snapshot salary record is available for this OFO code yet.
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5. Qualification
Qualification evidence pending.
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
National occupation classification. Industry and provincial context are shown only where a separate official source supports the link.
No source-backed modern OFO↔SIC 7 industry link has been ingested for this occupation yet. PathLens does not infer one from the job title.
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9. Decision tools
10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Ingested · identity spine active
Canonical OFO identity data has been ingested and validated. 1511 occupation records are recorded in the ingest artifact. - DHET Occupations in High Demand · Validated pipeline · graph publication not confirmed
The governed OIHD pipeline is active, but a successful populated graph run is not currently confirmed on this deployment. - Critical Skills List · Monitored · occupation linkage pending
Official migration sources are monitored, but PathLens does not infer visa eligibility or occupation-level eligibility from monitoring alone. - QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Candidate staging ready · not published
Qualification staging and human review are implemented; no qualification↔OFO relationship is published without an explicit source identifier or governed human review. - Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Acquisition active · no approved evidence on this deployment
Official QLFS artifact discovery is active. Dataset-specific schema, weighting, reliability and review gates remain separate; a discovered artifact or executable estimator does not itself create a public claim. - SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Partial · explicit source links only
PathLens preserves explicit source-backed SETA/activity links where present and does not infer modern SIC relationships from occupation titles.