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New Nursing Education Programmes: What Next

Dr Sharon Vasuthevan

Acting Chairperson S.A. Nursing Council

FPNL

2016 Nursing Conference

New Nursing Education Programmes - What next?

Nursing Profession

Globally Priorities

for Nursing &

Midwifery

Nursing Education

SANC

Nursing Leadership

South African Nursing Council

Gatekeeper of the Profession• Governance & Regulation

• Monitoring and evaluation• Annual reporting on progress• Responding to healthcare requirements

• Professional Registration• Maintains the register for Nursing & Midwifery

• Accreditation of Programmes and Clinical Learning• Qualifications• Professional requirements for entry• Professional entry assessment• Quality Assurance

• Scope of Practice & Practice Standards• Charter of good practice• Development of Standards for Practice

• Continuing Professional Development • Focus on competence and outcomes• Annual Practice Certificates

• Research & Data Analytics• Evidence based regulation• Publications• Research Articles• Database of Nursing Information

Robust Regulatory

Systems

Professional Cycle

Nursing Categories

Scope of Practice

Qualifications

Accreditation

Registration

CPD

RegulationsSANC - APC

Nursing Act

Guidelines & Standards

SANC & CHE

SAQAProfessional Assessment

TECHNOLOGY

PRE-REGISTRATIONNURSE

What’s new

• Higher Education Registration

• Dual Accreditation System

• Provider Examinations/Assessments

• Professional Assessment prior to Registration

• Continuous Professional Development to retain on the registration

Post Registration Nursing

Specialization

Competencies

Qualification

Practice Standards

CPD

Registration

Identify new areas Clinical Nurse

Specialist

Advanced Clinical

Specialist

What’s new?

• Clinical Nurse Specialist with a Post Graduate Diploma

• Advanced Clinical Specialist with a Clinical Masters Degree

• Invitation for new areas of specialization

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for Nurses and Midwife• In the process of being established in terms of the Nursing Act, 2005 (Act

33 of 2005,) sections 39 and 59 and other legislative & policy directives.

• SANC has conducted the CPD Pilot in two Provinces one predominantly urban and the other predominantly rural in nature.

• The outcome of the Pilot study will determine how the implementation of the CPD System will unfold.

• The CPD activities are divided into four (4) thematic areas, viz. • Ethical Legal domain; • Area of Practice; • Leadership and Management and • Teaching and Research.

What does this mean for Nursing Education?

Finally arrived in Higher Education

• High calibre school leavers

• Critical Thinkers• Innovative teaching

and learning• Empowered

students• Mentoring and

Coaching• Clinical competence• Fast track their

careers• Flexibility

Accreditation is the first

step

Nursing Profession

Industry Drivers for Change

• Escalating cost of healthcare

• Increased regulation

• Burden of disease

• Access to technology

• Informed communities – value for money

• Scarce human resources

• Disillusioned workforce

• Nursing driven healthcare model

• Universal Healthcare Coverage

Gaps between legacy and new qualification outputs

Further shortage of

staff

Reduced outputs

from NEIs

Quality of patient care

Creative staffing

• Staffing Norms• Accelerate training• Retention Strategies• Use nurses to their

highest scope• Revised

remuneration packages

• Drive quality of care• Advocacy

Global Priorities for the future of Nursing and Midwifery

Nurse Training Targets

USA Goals—by 2020:

•Increase the proportion of bachelor’s-prepared nurses to 80%

•Double the number of nurses with doctorate degrees

What about us in South Africa?

Full Practice Authority

Nurses practising at their highest scope

Nurse Doctor relationships

Joint Leadership

• TRIAD/QUAD – Regulator, Education,

Association and CNO

• Joint Responsibility and

Accountability

• Involvement in policy making

• Shared vision

• Multiple voices with a single message

• Measures for success of the

relationships

Transformative Leadership

• Holding the leaders accountable for delivery

• Remain focussed on driving the Nursing Agenda

• Development of the leaders – influencing skills

• Succession Planning for future leaders

• Responding to changing dynamics in health

• Get involved

Nursing & Politics

• Politics and Nursing – not in the same sentence!

• Public policy and politics shape nursing

• Political activism to protect our profession from internal and external threats

• Task shifting

Promote Nurse Leadership

• Nurses account for only 5 percent of hospital board positions

• Fewer nurses are in Senior & Executive positions

Where do we start?

• Shake off our apathy

• Learn from our role models

• Gain political savvy

• Lobby decision makers and legislators

• Take up leadership roles

Turbulent Times Build Great LeadersRobin Sharma

The 5 Rules

• Speak with candor

• Prioritize

• Adversity breeds opportunity

• Respond versus react

• Kudos for everyone

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone

Neale Donald Walsch

The future is in our hands! !

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