12 May 2012

South African Nursing Council – Recognition Awards 2012

 

On 12 May 2012, the South African Nursing Council celebrated International Nurses’ Day wherein nurses globally were remembering and reflecting on the meaning and value of their own and collective contribution in the delivery of healthcare.

This year as part of the commemoration, the Council paid tribute and saluted visionary leadership provided by various nurse leaders in the transformation of the nursing profession in line with the democratic principles espoused in the Constitution of South Africa.  The contribution by these awardees gave birth to the democratization of the nursing profession.

Those who received awards are:

	Prof WJ Kotzé
	Prof P Nzimande
	Mr S Dlamini

For detailed information regarding the contribution they have made, click on each name.

 

12 May 2012 Council Building named after Cecilia Makiwane At a morning function held to celebrate International Nurses’ Day 2012, the South African Nursing Council building was officially named in honour of Cecilia Makiwane, the first black registered professional nurse in Africa.  The building is now officially named the Cecilia Makiwane Building. During the naming ceremony, nurses from all over South Africa renewed their “Nurses Pledge“, holding lighted candles as symbols of the lamp which was, according to the soldiers who were there, once carried by Florence Nightingale during her rounds of the wards in Crimean War hospitals.

12 May 2012

South African Nursing Council – Recognition Awards 2012

MR SIDUMO DLAMINI

 

SUMMARY OF THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF MR SIDUMO DLAMINI TO THE TRANSFORMATION OF NURSING

 

Mr Sidumo Dlamini joined the nursing profession in 1986 as a pupil nurse training for enrolment as a staff nurse at Mosvold Hospital at Ingwavuma North of KZN.  He was one of the first male nurse trainee in the area since there were none in the area at that time.

Having completed training two years later he was employed by Prince Mshiyeni Memorial Hospital in the casualty department.  It is at this hospital at Umlazi, Durban where it all began.

He was in a group of nurses who worked for the transformation of the nursing profession in campaigns for the transformation of the South African Nursing Association, the KwaZulu Nursing Association and the South African Nursing Council.  These struggles waged here and elsewhere in the country resulted to the collapse or transformation of these institutions created by the old system into the SANC as we know it today.

Nurses formed and joined unions of their choice and were no longer forced to be members of SANA and the other bantustant’s associations of nursing.

We called for the transformation of the nursing profession and the development and training of nurses and campaigned against discrimination on the basis of race, colour, creed, sex and religion in the profession.

HE progressed to train as a general nurse and midwife (accoucheur) at the same time championed issues of the nurses integrating those with all the workers in the working class.  Mr Dlamini understood that the life of a professional nurse is very comprehensive and does not end at the bedside of the patient hence a comprehensive approach in addressing nurses and nursing challenges need to be used as nurses are also members of the community.

It is in that context that that he became a shop steward not just for the workers at his workplace but other workplaces too.  And a shop steward not just for his union NEHAWU but all COSATU unions in the country as their President.

Mr Dlamini is also serving at the national collective bargaining platforms as a negotiator on behalf of all the workers in government and he continues to develop the nursing profession at the sectoral bargaining council.

There is yet a lot to be done in the transformation of the profession adding on the work that has happened.  One great achievement of the profession is that nurses can be represented by their shop stewards in the SANC disciplinary processes something that didn’t happen before.

Mr Dlamini is a living example that a nurse can be anything he/she want to be in society, including a union president and even a President of the largest federation in Africa like COSATU.  He is a living example that it is possible to give the service to humanity as best as you can even under very difficult circumstances.  “Neither geographical boundary’s nor limitations can prevent you from reaching the skies”.  It is dedication and sacrifice coupled with working hard and respect of life and humanity.

Today Mr Sidumo Dlamini has 26 years unbroken service in the profession and through self-development and training and he has is indeed an asset to the profession and the entire nation.

Viva “COSATU PRESIDENT”

 

12 May 2012

South African Nursing Council – Recognition Awards 2012

PROFESSOR PHILDA NOMUSA DUDU NZIMANDE

 

SUMMARY OF CONTRIBUTIONS OF PROF PHILDA NOMUSA DUDU NZIMANDE TO THE TRANSFORMATION OF NURSING PROFESSION

 

Prof Nzimande qualified as a general nurse in 1961 at McCord Hospital in Durban.  She continued to study and has a number of nursing diplomas and degrees.  She completed her Masters in 1982 and later DPhil et litt in Nursing Science in 1982.  She has extensive experience in both classroom teaching and clinical nursing environment.

Prof Nzimande has contributed in a number of professional and scientific organisations as follows.

Membership of professional and scientific organisations

1. KWAZULU NURSES ORGANIZATION
   Elected First President of the organisation (membership plus minus 9 000 nurse).  Organization dissolved on 9 August 1995 in favour of joining DENOSA – a newly established Democratic Nursing Organization of South Africa.
2. NATAL AND KWAZULU NURSE – EDUCATORS DISCUSSION GROUP
   Founder and an active member.  A society that was established to keep together Nurse Educators in KwaZulu natal when the apartheid system divided the Nursing faculty in terms of the Homelands system.
3. NATAL AND KWAZULU NURSES ORGANISATION
   Founder member and one-time vice-organising secretary at National level and one-time chairperson of Ngoye Region.  (This organisation was established to keep together nurses in both regions during the apartheid era).
4. NATAL AND KWAZULU COMMUNITY NURSES HEALTH DISCUSSION GROUP
   Past-chairperson of the organisation. (This organisation was established to keep together nurses in both regions during the apartheid era.)
5. HEALTH FACILITIES PLAN – NGWELEZANA SUB-REGION
   Past-chairperson.  (A transformation structure which aimed at facilitating a multidisciplinary approach to health care provision within the region.)
6. ACTIVE MEMBER – First International Secretary of the Sacred Heart Sodality which co-ordinate different sodalities in Southern Africa, active in women initiatives within the church
7. A past member of the Editorial Committee/Board an official publication for KwaZulu Nurse Organisation – the Nursing Dossier
8. A Chairperson of the Editorial Board of Curationis.  A Scientific Nursing Journal (referred) in South Africa owned by DENOSA the National Nurses Organisation
9. A past member and conveyor of a Research Committee – Natal and KwaZulu Nurses Organisation
10. NATIONAL NURSING RESEARCH FORUM
    In Natal – a past member South African National Research Committee
11. AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION
    A member since 1998
12. AMERICAN NATIONAL TRANSCULTURAL NURSING SOCIETY
    A member since 1998
13. INTERNATIONAL BICULTURAL NURSE SCIENTIST
    A member since 1998
14. Invited to become a Council member on Graduate Education for Administration in Nursing – In USA – in February 1989
15. Inducted into Sigma Theta Tau Inc. International Honour Society of Nursing – Alpha Lambda Chapter – University of Illinois Chicago USA – from 21 May 1989
16. National Facilitator – Steering Committee for Nurses Unity – towards professionalism in South Africa – 1993, which lead to the formation of a negotiation forum called Nurses Planning for the Future (NPFF)
17. A management and Research Consultant since 1992
18. First Chairperson of the Transitional Nurses Committee – which aimed at leading South African Nurses united and gaining recognition to the International Council of Nurses and Commonwealth Federation of Nurses – 1994
19. Past member of various academic institutions committees e.g. member of Faculty Board. SENATE Tertiary Committee, University of Zululand, Member of Senate, Council and Vice Chairperson of Ngwelezana Nursing College
20. Elected as First National Chairperson – of the Interim National Board of the Democratic Nursing Organization of South Africa (DENOSA) established on 28 January 1996 – Facilitated and convened negotiations committee with 13 nursing organizations towards dissolving in favour of DENOSA
21. Elected as First national Chair (President) of the Joint national Board of the UNIFIED DENOSA on 1996
22. Elected as First President after the First Democratic Elections for DENOSA in 1997
23. Appointed by Minister of Health to represent South African Nurses in the South African Interim Medical and Dental Council for 1997 and 1998
24. Served in the National Co-ordinating Committee for Effective Drug Prescribing Training (Essential Drug Listing)
25. Served in Provincial Transformation and Rationalisation Nursing Education Committee for Natal and KwaZulu Province
26. Served as a member of a Planning Committee for an International Conference organised by Anlia Polytech, Natal and University of Zululand Universities.  Theme “Nursing at the Cutting Edge Caring for the 21st Century” 1998
27. Facilitated an International Workshop on Open Learning by McMillan publishers
28. Campus Representative for Durban Umlazi Campus at the Association of Tertiary Institutions (ATI) which aims to co-ordinate and rationalize institutions of Tertiary Education (Universities, Technikons, Colleges) in Natal and KwaZulu Province – 1997 and 1998

 

12 May 2012

South African Nursing Council – Recognition Awards 2012

PROFESSOR WILMA KOTZÉ

 

SUMMARY OF THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF PROFESSOR WILMA KOTZÉ TO THE TRANSFORMATION OF NURSING

 

Professor Kotzé served as Member of the South African Nursing Council for six consecutive terms of office from 1979 to 2003.

In her second term of office on the Council she was elected as Vice-president for the Ninth Council and thereafter as President for the Tenth and Eleventh Councils.

She served on the South African Medical and Dental Council as representative of the Tenth Council from 1989 to 1994.

She represented the South African Nursing Council at several international conferences and participated in a number of overseas assignments to study nursing education, nursing practise and professional regulatory systems abroad, the most important of which the delegation led to the East Central European Countries in 1992 to prepare Council for the management of nurses returning to the post-apartheid South Africa.

As President of the South African Nursing Council, Professor Kotzé was a member of the work group which was assigned Unification of the former Bophuthatswana, Ciskei, South African and Transkei Nursing Councils by the Minister of Health.

In 1995, with the establishment of the Interim Nursing Council, Professor Kotzé was appointed by the Minister of Health and Welfare as Member of the Interim Council, and elected by this Council as its Vice-president.  After amalgamation of the former South African, Transkei, Ciskei and Bophuthatswana Nursing Councils and the establishment of the new South African Nursing Council in 1998, she served her last term of office on Council as an elected member, in the capacity of Vice-president.

Professor Kotzé was:

	A member of the Executive Committee of Council from 1979 to 2003 (Chairperson 1989 to 1995);
	A member of the Education Committee, 1984 to 1989, and its Chairperson, 1984 to 1989;
	Chairperson of the Professional Conduct Committee 1989 to 2003; and
	Chairperson of the Laws and Practise Standards Committee, 1989 to 2003.  The ground work for the review of the Scope of Nursing Practise and development of a Charter for Nursing Practise to provide parameters for nursing practice, inform development of educational standards, the categories of nurse and qualifications needed to best serve the public and health service system in the new democratic society, and indeed inform the public of what could be expected from nurses, was done by the Laws and Practise Standards Committee during the terms of Office of the Interim Nursing Council and its successor under Chairmanship of Professor Kotzé.

Special Awards

	Degree Honorary Doctor of Science of Faculty of Health and Social Sciences of University of Kingston / St George’s Medical School, London, United Kingdom, 2005
	Lifetime Achievement Award of the Forum for Professional Nurse Leaders, 2006
	Honorary Life Membership of the Nursing Education Association, 2006