Circular 8/2012 Exam Schedule 2013
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Circular 7/2012 Extension of the date of offering legacy nursing qualifications and progress towards implementation of new nursing qualifications registered on the NQF
Circular 7/2012 Extension of the date of offering legacy nursing qualifications and progress towards the implementation of new nursing qualifications registered on the NQF
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Circular 6/2012 Dual submission of programmes for accreditation to SANC and to CHE
Circular 6/2012 Dual submission of programmes for accreditation to SANC and to CHE
27 July 2012
Dual Submission of Programmes for Accreditation to South African Nursing Council (SANC) and Council on Higher Education (CHE)
1. PURPOSE
2. BACKGROUND The South African Nursing Council as a statutory body and ETQA has responsibility of ensuring compliance by nursing education institutions with the Nursing Act No. 33 of 2005 and other relevant legislation in provisioning of nursing education and training. The Nursing Act, 2005 (Act No. 33 of 2005), chapter 2, section 42, sub-sections (1), (2), (3) and (4) states that: “(1) An institution intending to conduct a nursing education and training programme in order to prepare persons for practice in any one of the categories contemplated in section 31 (of the Act) must first— (a) apply to the Council in writing for accreditation and submit information on— (i) the education and training programme to be provided; and (ii) how it will meet the prescribed standards and conditions for education and training; (b) furnish the Council with any additional information required by the Council for purposes of accreditation of the education and training programme; and (c) pay the prescribed fee.” The Higher Education Act of 1997 assigns responsibility for quality assurance in higher education in South Africa to the Council on Higher Education (CHE). This responsibility is discharged through its permanent sub-committee, the Higher Education Quality Committee (HEQC). The mandate of the HEQC includes quality promotion, institutional audit and programme accreditation. The HEQC’s criteria for programme accreditation should be used as the basis for an institution’s self-evaluation of the programme(s) submitted for accreditation, along with additional benchmarks which the institution might set for itself. The HEQC will use the criteria, the self-evaluation report and supporting evidence provided by the institution, in the evaluation of applications for programme accreditation (new programmes) or reaccreditation (existing programmes).
3. SCOPE AND PRIMARY FOCUS OF SOUTH AFRICAN NURSING COUNCIL All providers/applicant provider organizations that fall within the scope of the SANC and which offer education and training programmes which culminate in specified qualifications or who manage the assessment thereof, or both, must be accredited by the South African Nursing Council, as stipulated in the Nursing Act, 2005 (Act No. 33 of 2005), section 42, in order to offer such education and training and assessment. In this regard, the SANC will only:
4. GENERAL CRITERIA FOR ACCREDITATION OF PROGRAMME The conformance criteria that are set by SANC are as follows:
HEQC has set the following criteria:
5. ACCREDITATION PROCESS All prospective providers will be treated as new applicants as these will be new qualifications. Approach to accreditation is based on:
Click here to see SANC ACCREDITATION PROCESS flowchart Click here to see CHE ACCREDITATION PROCESS flowchart
6. OUTCOMES OF ACCREDITATION The review panel first evaluates the programme(s) against each individual criterion as set out in the Criteria for Programme Accreditation. The following categories are used to classify the results in each instance: a) Commend/Accredit: the minimum standards specified in the criterion were fully met and, in addition, good practices and innovation were identified in relation to the criterion b) Meets minimum standards/Accredit: Minimum standards as specified in the criteria were met c) Needs improvement/ accredit provisionally: Did not comply with all the minimum standards specified in the criterion. Problems/weaknesses could be addressed in a short period of time d) Does not comply/ Not accredited: Did not comply with the majority of the minimum standards specified in the criterion
7. PERIOD OF ACCREDITATION SANC: New programmes will be accredited as follows:
HEQC: New programmes will be accredited as follows:
8. HANDLING OF AN APPLICATION THAT DOES NOT MEET ACCREDITATION REQUIREMENTS Office of the Council sends a letter giving prospective provider another three (3) months to rectify outstanding requirements Prospective provider may apply for an extension of up to an additional three (3) months
9. HANDLING OF RE-SUBMISSION OF AN APPLICATION Office of the Council reviews re-submission and decides on the following:
10. APPEALS Appeals are dealt with in line with the Appeals Policy and Procedure. An applicant provider or organisation may access the SANC Appeals Policy and Procedure should the organisation be dissatisfied with any of the following during the accreditation process:
NB: The policy stipulates time frames for appeals. If no appeal is forthcoming within the specified period, the results will be accepted as final and binding.
11. PROVIDER MONITORING AND AUDITS Providers will receive a monitoring visit in the first year after accreditation and will be audited at least once per accreditation period. Additional monitoring and auditing will take place at the discretion of SANC. Such monitoring and auditing can take place without prior notice.
Any queries regarding above-mentioned circular must be directed to: Dr. S. W. Mkhize: Senior Manager: Education and Training Phone: 012 420-1022 E-mail: smkhize@sanc.co.za
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Circular 5/2012 Revised fees payable to SANC for accreditation of Nursing Education Institutions (latest – amends Circular 4/2012)
Circular 5/2012 Revised fees payable to SANC for accreditation of Nursing Education Institutions (latest – amends Circular 4/2012)
Implementation of Revised Fees Payable to the South African Nursing Council for Accreditation of Nursing Education Institutions
PURPOSE The purpose of this circular is to inform providers of Nursing Education and Training, Provincial Departments of Health and stakeholders about the implementation of revised fees payable to the South African Nursing Council (SANC) for accreditation of nursing education institutions (NEI’s). This circular amends South African Nursing Council Circular 4/2012.
IMPLEMENTATION The Council, at its meeting of 28-29 March 2012, approved the fees stated below. The revised fees are in accordance with the cost of processing applications, conducting accreditation visits and service to the nursing education institutions. 1. Motivation for fees payable for the accreditation of nursing education institution 1.1 The SANC, as an accredited Education and Training Quality Assurance body (ETQA), is required to promote the quality of education and training amongst the nursing education and training providers. 1.2 These quality promotion activities have impact on the administrative and resources requirements, with considerable financial implications. 1.3 With the implementation of these fees for accreditation, the South African Nursing Council will be in position to improve on the quality and quantity of resources required for the accreditation process. 2. Accreditation fees 2.1 Fees are determined in the following manner:
N.B.: Please note that these fees are subject to 14% VAT. The above fee structure is applicable with effect from 1 June 2012.
EXPLANATORY NOTES Nursing education institutions are assessed in the following manner:
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Special News Item 2/2012 Special Recognition Awards
Special News Item 2/2012
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:
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Prof WJ Kotzé |
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Prof P Nzimande |
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Mr S Dlamini |
For detailed information regarding the contribution they have made, click on each name.
Special News Item 1/2012 Building named
Special News Item 1/2012
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12 May 2012 Council Building named after Cecilia MakiwaneAt 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. |
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Special News Item 2/2012 Award – Dlamini
Special News Item 2/2012 Award – Dlamini
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”
Special News Item 2/2012 Award – Nzimande
Special News Item 2/2012 Award – Nzimande
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
- 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. - 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. - 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). - 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.) - 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.) - 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
- A past member of the Editorial Committee/Board an official publication for KwaZulu Nurse Organisation – the Nursing Dossier
- A Chairperson of the Editorial Board of Curationis. A Scientific Nursing Journal (referred) in South Africa owned by DENOSA the National Nurses Organisation
- A past member and conveyor of a Research Committee – Natal and KwaZulu Nurses Organisation
- NATIONAL NURSING RESEARCH FORUM
In Natal – a past member South African National Research Committee - AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION
A member since 1998 - AMERICAN NATIONAL TRANSCULTURAL NURSING SOCIETY
A member since 1998 - INTERNATIONAL BICULTURAL NURSE SCIENTIST
A member since 1998 - Invited to become a Council member on Graduate Education for Administration in Nursing – In USA – in February 1989
- Inducted into Sigma Theta Tau Inc. International Honour Society of Nursing – Alpha Lambda Chapter – University of Illinois Chicago USA – from 21 May 1989
- 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)
- A management and Research Consultant since 1992
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Elected as First national Chair (President) of the Joint national Board of the UNIFIED DENOSA on 1996
- Elected as First President after the First Democratic Elections for DENOSA in 1997
- Appointed by Minister of Health to represent South African Nurses in the South African Interim Medical and Dental Council for 1997 and 1998
- Served in the National Co-ordinating Committee for Effective Drug Prescribing Training (Essential Drug Listing)
- Served in Provincial Transformation and Rationalisation Nursing Education Committee for Natal and KwaZulu Province
- 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
- Facilitated an International Workshop on Open Learning by McMillan publishers
- 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
Special News Item 2/2012 Award – Kotze
Special News Item 2/2012 Award – Kotze
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:
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A member of the Executive Committee of Council from 1979 to 2003 (Chairperson 1989 to 1995); |
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A member of the Education Committee, 1984 to 1989, and its Chairperson, 1984 to 1989; |
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Chairperson of the Professional Conduct Committee 1989 to 2003; and |
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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
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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 |
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Lifetime Achievement Award of the Forum for Professional Nurse Leaders, 2006 |
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Honorary Life Membership of the Nursing Education Association, 2006 |
Press Release 1/2012 International Nurses’ Day
Press Release 1/2012 International Nurses’ Day
11 May 2012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE INTERNATIONAL NURSES DAY 2012 MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRPERSON OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN NURSING COUNCIL The South African Nursing Council joins the nurses around the globe as we commemorate the International Nurses Day, acknowledging the scientific, ethical and professional influence that Florence Nightingale had on the nursing profession. Nurses, globally on this day remember and reflect on the meaning and value of their own and collective contribution in the delivery of health care. The theme for 2012 is “Closing the Gap: from evidence to action” The South African Nursing Council celebrates this historical milestone by acknowledging the tireless efforts of all nurses in South Africa, who despite daily pressures and challenges, continue to prioritize the welfare of their patients. This year, on International Nurses’ Day the South African Nursing Council will be paying tribute to the pioneers of nursing. Chief amongst these would be the celebrations of Cecilia Makiwane, the first black professional nurse to obtain state registration in Africa in January 1908. In addition the Council will pay tribute and salute 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. A year ahead provide a golden opportunity for nurses to define a strategic role to be played by nurses in contributing to a long and healthy life for all, specifically in the implementation of nurse driven primary health care, a strategy for ensuring citizenry access to basic health care. We are also optimistic that our midwives will embrace the introduction of midwife-led obstetric services as an opportunity for saving mothers and saving the babies of our country ENDS Issued by The chairperson: Ms JN Makhanya South African Nursing Council Tel : 012 426 9542 / 083 496 8366 |
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