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International Nurses’ Day President’s message 1

IND 1

2012 Elections 2

2012 Workshops 3

NEA Activity Gallery 4

2012 Conference 6

Focus on AP role 7

SGL Research Day 7

2012 NEA Awards 7

Commitment to service 8

NEA membership 9

ICN & IND 10

Inside this issue:

VOLUME 4 Number 1 March 2012

International Nurses‟ Day celebrates the contribution that nurses make to

the health of populations globally.

In light of the major health care reforms in South Africa, nursing education is

critical to enable nurses and midwives to provide competent patient care; meet

the health needs of South Africans; engage in policy debates and provide

leadership for change. A strengthened nursing education system is essential to

ensure that the current and future generations of nurses and midwives are able

to provide safe, quality, patient-centred care across primary healthcare and

hospital settings.

This requires all of us to continue engaging in life long learning, collaboration

and team work to strengthen our efforts and to embrace technology and new

ways of thinking and doing what we do. This is particularly important for

educators expected to teach others the importance of such engagement - keep

in mind that as professional nurses, all of us have a teaching role to ensure that

those who work with us all become competent in the work we do.

NEA pays tribute to the nurses and midwives who deliver health services to

our people and to the educators whose life work it is to facilitate learning of

these professionals.

I cannot believe how fast the year seems to be passing. I was hoping for a 2012 that allows us to pay attention to the little but important things, and once again we seem to be bombarded with all kinds of changes, information, alerts, incidents, and for us in Gauteng, e-tolls as well!

So, I ask myself what happened to our time? Then I read one of my latest books that explain that we should not try to manage our time but rather our energy. Try doing this, and see if you get different results!

The NEA is proud of the streamlining of its workshops this year and the standardized offering available to all our members. The standard is very high and I can assure you that you will not be disappointed. The workshops are on Simulation, Innovative Teaching & Learning, Evidence Based Research, Writing Skills and Leadership for Change. Book your seat to attend one of them at your own chapter!

The Ministerial Task Team has been hard at work finalizing the Nursing Strategy. We look forward to the launch of the new strategy and I am sure it is going to address some of the much spoken of issues. The magic will be in the implementation of the Nursing Strategy.

I think the theme of the NEA FUNDISA Conference is so appropriate for Nursing in South Africa – Together we can! Imagine all of us focussing on improving patient care and taking nursing to new heights. Nurses will become unstoppable thereafter.

To all our nursing colleagues, we salute you for your commitment to patient care. God bless you all.

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Dr Sharon Vasuthevan

NEA President

Let’s Talk 11

Chapter programme 12

Research journals 10

Let’s Talk 11

NEA Chapter Exco elections for 2012

North West Chapter

The North West Chapter elections took place at their meeting hosted in Orkney at the EMS College. The elected members of the Chapter Exco are from left to right:

Ms Erika Kotze (Chairperson); Evelyn Nkumane (Vice Chairperson); Ms Hanette du Toit (Communication) & Ms Jeanette Seabeng (Secretary)

Not present due to other commitments were Ms Moekie van Wyk (Marketing); Ms Sisinyana Khunou (Member) & Ms Rina Muller (Member)

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The 2012 Chapter Exco committee elections have been concluded successfully and speedily by the end of

March 2012. Congratulations to all the elected committees and thank you for your willingness to serve and

promote your profession in this way!

We wish you well and trust that you will experience your term of office as a professional highlight and

growth opportunity!

Pretoria Chapter

The Pretoria Chapter had their elections on 2 March at the Life Learning Centre. The elected members of the Pretoria Exco are from left to right:

Front: Dr Sharon Vasuthevan (Chairperson) & Ms Karin Zagerhagen (Secretary)

Back: Ms Kay Kanthlall (member); Ms Irene Lubbe (Communication); Ms Magda Cunze (outgoing chair); Ms Rina Swart (Marketing); Ms Izelle Loots (Vice-Chair) & Lizelle Potgieter (member).

Insert: Professor Gisela van Rensburg was on sick leave and therefore not present.

Port Elizabeth Chapter

The Port Elizabeth Chapter elections took place at Netcare Education in Port Elizabeth on an exceptionally hot day with a record number of more than 80 delegates present at the workshop. This was on 14 March.

The elected member of the Exco are from left to right:

Ms Sandi Honnibal (Secretary) Professor Dalena van Rooyen (Chairperson); Ms Suzette du Rand (Vic-chair); Dr Hettie de Mendonca (Member) & Rita Meyer (Marketing).

Ms Patricia Coetzee (communication) was unfortunately no longer present when the photo was taken.

2012 Chapter workshops

The series of interactive NEA workshops planned for the 2012 year promise to be exciting and events. The programme schedule for each Chapter is on the back page of the newsletter. Here is a sneak preview of the planned workshops.

All the workshops will be approximately 3 hours in duration except for the Leadership workshop that will be longer - from 09:00 in the morning up to 15:00 in the afternoon.

Workshop attendance fee

Paid-up NEA members are requested for a R50 contribution towards refreshments and non-members who wish to attend have to pay R200 for each workshop they want to attend.

Innovative teaching practices

This workshop is aimed at managing and preventing challenges experienced when managing groups; in the lecture room; critically reflecting on your own teaching practice and applying innovative techniques in nursing education.

Simulation as a teaching approach

NEA in partnership with Survival technology will be hosting workshops country wide to explore simulation as a teaching strategy.

Evidence based practice

A practical session on using evidence to improve best practice in nursing education.

Juta’s writing skills workshop for beginners

Due to popular demand this workshop will be presented at Chapter level for as many Chapters as possible this year. This interactive workshop focus on the development of writing skills for academic writing

Nurse Educator Leadership (NEL) programme

This will be an interactive session for educators focusing on personal branding and marketing, development of scholarship, networking and engagement. Due to the nature of the workshop, only 20 NEA members per Chapter can be accommodated.

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Western Cape Chapter

The Western Cape elections took place at the Cape

Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) on 16 March.

The committee elected are from left to right:

Ms Vicky Major (Secretary); Ms Gohwa Fisher (Finance);

Danielle Jordaan (Chair/Vice-chair); Ms Felicia Anne

Smit (Marketing); Ms Linda Jonker (Chair/Vice-chair); Ms

Briony Berning (Communication) & Ms Hilda Vember

(Outgoing chairperson).

East London Chapter

The East London Chapter elections took place in the

Ampath Board Room next to the St Dominique

Hospital. The members elected are from left to right:

Ms Felicia Mazwi (Outgoing Chairperson); Cecile

Breytenbach (Marketing) & Ms Viola Janse van Vuuren

(Vice Chairperson).

Not present was Ms Fundi Tom (Chairperson) who was

on sick leave and Dr Pinky Seekoe (Communication)

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1. Pretoria delegates attending the simulation workshop -

these members also voted on the Pretoria Exco

membership and their portfolios.

2. Members of the Sim family at the Pretoria workshop on

simulation.

3. Mpumalanga educators convened at the Mpumalanga

College to discuss and prepare a submission on the

SANC regulations on the new education and training

programmes.

4. A Curriculum Development Workshop was held for the

educators at the GaRankuwa Nursing College. At the

PE Chapter, elections also took place followed by the

Juta Writing Skills workshop.

5. Felicia Mazwi (outgoing Chairperson), Dr Portia Jordan

(NMMU, presenter on simulation as teaching strategy)

and Nelouise Geyer (NEA CEO) at the East London

meeting.

6. In East London the delegates voted on the Exco

membership and their portfolios and attended the

Simulation workshop.

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NEA Activity Gallery (cont)

8. Both the Johannesburg and Free State &

Northern Cape Chapters had a low-fidelity

simulation workshop where delegates created

urine with a tea bag (a); a septic diabetic toe (b);

face mask & hand (c) and a burn wound (d)

9. A national workshop was held for Chapter

representatives on innovative teaching strategies that

will be replicated at the Chapter meetings

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delegates attended the

Juta Scientific Writing

Skills Workshop for

beginners after voting for

the new Chapter

Executive Committee.

Registration for the conference can be done on the

NEA website at www.edunurse.co.za.

The registration fees are as follows:

Members early bird (before 30 June) : R3 000

Members Full registration (after 30 June) : R3 300

Non Members Early bird (before 30 June) : R3 300

Non Members Full registration (after 30 June): R3 500

Registration for a single day : R 1 200 per day

(excludes evening functions)

Registration entitles delegates to the following

benefits:

Entrance to the conference and all sessions

Delegate pack and bag

Countdown to

Conference documentation

Refreshments

Lunches

Access to exhibition area

Welcome cocktail

Gala dinner

At the same time register to attend two of the workshops: Session 1 Session 2 Low fidelity simulation High fidelity simulation Nursing Education Leadership Policy in health Nurse Educator competence E-learning Evidence based practice Education Legislation Juta’s Writing skills for Juta’s Writing skills for beginners (25) beginners (25)

2012 NEA/FUNDISA Conference

Conference co-hosts:

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A bstract submission is now closed. Following a special request, the call for abstracts was

extended with 2 weeks until 15 March 2012. The abstract evaluation is now in process and

each abstract submitted will undergo double blind peer review. The outcome will be made

known by the middle of May 1012.

Registration

Focus on Advanced Nurse Practitioner role

The SG Lourens College launched their first Research Day on 24 February. The day was well attended and the presentations and subsequent discussion on most of the topics presented was lively and animated.

Guest speaker

The guest speaker was Ms Bana from the University of Pretoria who highlighted the importance of research and its impact on the quality of education and nursing care.

Student presentation

The SG Lourens students did the first research presentation of the day. This presentation dropped a bombshell with their findings which indicated that staff providing clinical nursing care in a training hospital did not understand how bed sores developed nor the principles of preventing the development of bed sores.

NEA Novice Researcher Project

Two of the first participants in the NEA novice researcher project also presented their research done during 2011 as part of the project.

Mashudu Mafunzwaini did research on „The influence of absenteeism on midwifery examination results‟ and found that 71% student reported that they were absent from class or clinical practice with 53% absent due to health related problems. 20 % did not have a reason or did not respond to the question. All indicated that it did impact on their performance.

Lerato Duiker investigated „Remuneration as a motivator for student nurses‟ and found that although interest in nursing is low, students choosing nursing as a career are not motivated by remuneration which they receive during training. Motivation to continue with training as a nurse is enhanced by clinical exposure.

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Research Day launch @ SG Lourens

Masters students in Education at the UWC who arranged the

workshop

The UWC - Master‟s students in Education presented a very

successful symposium entitled “The role, regulation and

recognition of the Advanced Nurse Practitioner in South

Africa” on November 17, 2011 as a requirement for one of

the modules “Issues in Health Profession Development”.

The main objectives of the symposium were as follows:

Identifying the challenges and successes that Advanced

Nurse Practitioners experience within a South African

context.

Where are we in South Africa considering the Nursing Act,

regulation and the recognition of Advanced Nurse

Practitioners?

A panel of three speakers presented an overview on the

concept of nurse practitioners which was followed by a lively

discussion session. The symposium attracted 110 nurses,

which included managers from different health facilities,

lecturers and academics from the broader campus. It also

included prospective students whose interest was stimulated

to further their studies.

The registration desk

The speakers of the day in the front two rows

NEA Excellence Awards

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It is time for members to submit nominations for the Excellence Awards for 2012. The NEA Excellence Awards programme is an opportunity for NEA members to recognize and honour colleagues for their outstanding contribution to nursing education. The awards focus on proven excellence in relation to innovations in teaching/learning, collaborative initiatives and institutional leadership and excellence. There are four categories to nominate for, namely excellence in nursing education for educators with less than 5 years or educators more than 5 years‟ experience, leadership in education, or a collaborative project in nursing education.

Closing date

Closing date for nominations is 30 June 2012. Awards will be pre-sented at the Gala dinner to be held on 5 September 2012 at the 3

rd NEA/FUNDISA Conference.

Receipt of the Awards

Accommodation, travel and meal expenses to attend the Awards Ceremony are for the nominee‟s account.

Criteria for Nomination

Achievements must be recent with the most significant work done in the past year 2011/2012. Nominees and nominators for all awards must be NEA members.

The nominee must:

have made a tangible difference to nursing education

be able to inspire others and have motivated them to join him/her in the particular endeavour

have shown creative academic leadership

have been able to overcome obstacles and shown tenacity, creativity and drive in achieving his/her results

have used innovative teaching and learning strategies with good results.

Get more information

Application forms and other information on the Excellence Awards is available at the NEA office or the Chapter Chairperson.

Commitment to service

February was the time for the new recruits into

nursing to pledge their commitment to nursing at the

Life Colleges of Learning in Pretoria.

During this event some of the new students,

Prescious Motlhagodi, Nico Willemse and Wilma van

Zyl, presented their experience as new entrants to the

profession - how refreshing and positive! As

educators we have to make sure that the positive

attitude are entrenched in our students.

The College Head, Dr Eloise van Niekerk, shared

some words of wisdom with the students to do exactly

that - some tips to ensure that they retain their

positive spirit for patient care and for the nursing

profession.

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Did you know this about NEA’s membership?

The membership of NEA has grown with leaps and bounds over the last two years. It is no doubt due to the support of The Atlantic Philanthropies which made it possible to establish a functional office that can assist the elected NEA members serving on the various structures of NEA, to achieve the NEA objectives.

NEA membership

NEA membership is available to professional nurses interested and involved in nursing education and training of all formal and other professional development programmes. The Model for Clinical Education and Training supported by NEA, promotes clinical involvement of all educators for maintaining and upskilling their own clinical skills, as well as the involvement of clinical specialists in the classroom to promote student‟s integration of theory and practice.

Membership therefore makes provision for individual membership, or corporate membership where all the staff of the NEI pay the membership fee and get a 10% discount. Practitioners doing education programmes get a discount and pay only R100 of the R150 membership fee.

Benefits of membership

For R150 the following benefits are available:

quarterly meetings where updated information relating to nursing education is provided;

discounts for NEA special events as well as the annual conference that is jointly hosted by NEA and FUNDISA.

a range of professional development activities;

Nurse Educator CPD points and certificates;

annual opportunity to nominate nurse educators for Excellence Awards;

discounted fees for annual conference registration and workshops offered by NEA;

participation in funded projects, such as leadership development and the novice researcher project;

access to the secure section of the website where members can access information, journals and other useful information;

access to an office for assistance with information. Growth of membership NEA membership has grown over the last 3 years from

390 in 2009 to 481 in 2010 and 853 at the end of 2011. During this last year alone there has been a growth of 76% as indicated in the bar graph next to this column. In the pie graph underneath a breakdown is provided of the composition of the NEA membership in 2012. The largest component (45%) of the NEA membership is based in the public sector. There still is a 6% component that has not been allocated to a sector where they work - most of these are persons who did not renew their membership after 2009.

Growth in membership 2009 - 2011

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Private

University

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Composition of 2012 membership

Annual renewal of membership Significant time and energy has been dedicated during the last 2 years to develop a clean database. This is the main reason why members are requested to submit a renewal form so that NEA has the most updated information available. There also were members who had more than 2 numbers, so to ensure that there is no confusion the request has been that members provide their ID numbers. In preparation for compulsory CPD, the request for SANC numbers has also been included. The cost of running NEA The cost for the NEA office and all its current programmes amounts to just more than R4 million. The current membership fee provides for approximately R128 000 based on the membership for 2011 - this is only 3% of the total expenditure. The remainder of the funding is from the support provided by The Atlantic Philanthropies. NEA has therefore been very grateful for the in-kind contributions that have been made available by a variety

of partners throughout the country, for example providing venues at no cost to the Chapter meetings and workshops, workshop materials, gifts for speakers, and refreshments. Without those contributions it would have been even more costly to provide members with a service. This year the NEA partnerships is taking a more formal approach where partners are involved on a national basis - one of those is the partnership with Survival Technology for the simulation workshops.

Reading widely is an essential component of the

nurse educator‟s professional armour. Not only does it

empower us with a wealth of knowledge and

information, it also is essential for our teaching

responsibilities such as evidence based practice and

remaining up to date with the fields that we teach in.

So, it is the right thing to do as an educator.

Subscribe to scientific journals

The good news is that you can now subscribe to

scientific journals for free. Two of the journals in which

nurses publish, namely Curationis and Health SA

Gesondheid are now available as AOSIS

OpenJournals on line. All you have to do, is to go onto

their websites and subscribe on line - the process is

clear and easy to follow.

You can go to http://www.curationis.co.za or http://

www.hsag.co.za to subscribe to these two journals.

Alternatively you can also go to http://

www.openjournals.net/ to read about open journals and

the wide variety of journals that is available from this

source. AOSIS OpenJournals specialises in publishing

scholarly content across a broad spectrum of scientific

fields.

Subscribe to scientific journals

International Nurses Day is celebrated around the world every May 12, the anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth. The International Council of Nurses commemorates this important day each year with the production and distribution of the International Nurses' Day (IND) Kit. The IND Kit for 2012 contains educational and public information materials, for use by nurses everywhere.

2012 theme The IND theme for 2012 is Closing The Gap: From Evidence to Action. The content of this year's kit, including the poster image are posted on their website as downloadable documents for use by individual nurses, associations, health ministries and health institutions. Though mainly planned around May 12 each year, IND activities continue for much of the year by nurses and others. Nurses everywhere are therefore encouraged to make extended use of the Closing The Gap: From Evidence to Action kit throughout the year, through individ-ual action and group activities.

NEA workshops This theme links up with one of the themes for the NEA Chapter workshops and members attending the evidence based research workshop should be encouraged to download a copy of this document from the following site:

http://www.icn.ch/publications/2012-closing-the-gap-from-evidence-to-action/

ICN focus on evidence based research

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Let’s Talk! NEA debate & discussion corner

This page is created for NEA members to air their views on education matters relating to the

education and training of nurses and midwives. Send your contribution to

[email protected]

Let’s Talk!

Many nurse educators have been involved in arranging conferences, seminars and workshops. Some of the

challenges experienced are quite similar. It makes one wonder...is there such a thing as conference

etiquette? Let‟s talk about it!

Arranging a conference, workshop, seminar or any other event for that matter, is really hard work as you know. Getting the right people there remains the most challenging aspect of arranging such an event. Getting the programme together in such a way that people are interested to attend is of course the biggest challenge - because if the programme is not tempting people to want to attend, then you also do not have an event.

Having said this, we all attend such events to get new information, but, importantly, also for the networking that these events offer us.

So let‟s look at some things that could be regarded as „conference etiquette‟. Having spoken to some conference „goers‟ these are some of the „rules‟ that of course apply to both the organiser and the delegate attending the conference.

Honour your commitment

One of the first conference etiquette rules, is to honour your commitments.

If you have undertaken to do a presentation, make sure that you are there. If you cannot make it any longer, inform the organisers as soon as possible so that you can be replaced on the programme. It is not acceptable to do a “no show”.

If you are attending a workshop or seminar, also inform the organisers that you will no longer be attending. This is particularly important where there is a limitation on the number of persons that can attend an event. It is unacceptable to book for a „free‟ event and then just not pitch up. There is no such thing as a free event as there are refreshments, speakers, materials available at the event that has been paid for by someone.

Never, ever pitch up at an event if you have not booked to attend the event. This makes the host look unorganised - materials are not enough; refreshments are not enough and the venue may be overfull. Even if you book a day before the time, it does give the host some leeway to increase catering and materials.

As conference organiser, honour your commitment to delegates, presenters and exhibitors - do not promise something you will not be able to deliver.

Be considerate to other delegates

One of the complaints from delegates after a conference is the inconsiderate behaviour of some delegates. It is not acceptable to:

Forget to put your mobile on silent/meeting during the event AND

then answer it when the conference is in session.

Come in late when the conference has already started.

Leave when a speaker is still on the podium deliv-ering his/her presentation.

Continuously talk when a presenter is speaking.

Be considerate as a presenter

As a speaker there is also some rules that apply.

A particularly sensitive issue is that of speakers that only come to present their own papers and then leave. Attend other presentations besides your own on the day you present. Nothing makes a presenter seem more pretentious than doing a „hit and run‟ presentation where they only go to present their paper, expecting others to listen to them, but and then run off without bothering to be part of the audience to hear what others have to offer. This also applies to keynote speakers - maybe more so than ordinary delegates!

Don‟t say “If I had more time…”. As a presenter you responded to a call for papers and you knew from the start that you only have 20 minutes - you always have months to work out what and how to present your information in the time provided. Use your time well to present your main arguments.

Don‟t go over your allocated time. For the same reason as above, there is no excuse for going over your allocated presentation time. All presenters are equal - no-one‟s research is more important than another's‟. If you are the last speaker in a session that only have 10 minutes left instead of your allocated 20 minutes because previous speakers have gone overtime, it is really not fair.

Be considerate as event organisers

Event organisers are ultimately responsible for making the event run smoothly. To ensure that this happens and both delegates and presenters are happy to attend your next event, do remember to do the following:

Make information available and communicate regularly with both delegates and particularly with the presenters as well as exhibitors.

Confirm that your programme, booking and other information you provide during the event is correct.

Thank all presenters and exhibitors for their contributions after the event.

What do you say?

Do you agree with these conference etiquette rules? Let‟s talk about it!

Chapter meetings for 2012

EAST LONDON CHAPTER MPUMALANGA CHAPTER

9 February PBL at UFH

22 March Simulation

12 May PBL & IND

22 June Educator Competencies

4 - 6 September NEA /FUNDISA Conference, East London

20 September Leadership Development

22 November Research

Contact: [email protected]

23-24 May Curriculum Development @ Ehlanzeni District

14 June Nurse Educator competencies @ Gert Sibande District

26 July Simulation @ Nkangala District

23 August Leadership for Change @ Ehlanzeni District


27 September Research

28 November Year end meeting


FREE STATE & NORTHERN CAPE CHAPTER NORTHWEST CHAPTER

23 February Simulation

24 May Nurse educator competencies: Study guides

23 Augustus Leadership for Change


15 November Research - literature review

Contact person: [email protected]

7 March Leadership for change & elections @ Klerksdorp

13 June Simulation @ Mmbatho


26 September Research @ Carltonville

14 November Innovative teaching strategies @ Potchefstroom


JOHANNESBURG CHAPTER PORT ELIZABETH CHAPTER

22 February Innovation & simulation

1 March Curriculum Development

3 May Leadership for Change

27 June 2nd NEA meeting


1 August Innovative teaching strategies

26 September 3rd NEA meeting

31 October Research & NEA meeting


14 March Juta‟s Writing Skills Workshop & elections

13 June Innovative Teaching Strategies


26 September Leadership for Change

28 November Realistic Simulation Technologies


KWAZULU NATAL CHAPTER PRETORIA CHAPTER

11 May Juta‟s Scientific Writing Skills for beginners @ DUT

08 June Leadership for nurse educators @ DUT, Indumiso

15 August Simulation @ Netcare Campus, Durban


5 October Innovative teaching strategies @ Life College, Durban

30 November Research @ Greys Campus, Pietermaritzburg

Contact : [email protected]

02 March Simulation & elections

1 June Innovative teaching strategies


14 September Research

16 November Leadership for Change


LIMPOPO CHAPTER WESTERN CAPE CHAPTER

02 March Nurse Educator competencies @ Sovenga Campus

07 June Simulation University of Limpopo


27 September Leadership for change Sovenga campus

16 November Research @ University of Limpopo


16 March Juta‟s Writing skills & elections @ CPUT

15 June Innovative teaching strategies @ WCCN


15 September Leadership for change

26 October Simulation


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