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23 April 2012

Implementation of a Penalty on Candidates Found to be Cheating on Examinations

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 a penalty on candidates found to be cheating during examinations.

IMPLEMENTATION

The Council, at its meeting of 28-29 March 2012, approved the implementation of a penalty as stated below:

1.1    Students found copying during Council examinations should not be allowed to write another Council examination for a period of two years.

1.2    The names of such students should be flagged in the Council’s system in order to prevent admission to other Nursing Education Institutions.

This sanction becomes applicable as from 1 May 2012.

Signed
Mr T Mabuda
Registrar and CEO
South African Nursing Council

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23 April 2012

Implementation of the Improvement of the Current Examination System of all Programmes where Examinations are Conducted by the South African Nursing Council

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 improvement on the current examination system of all programmes where examinations are conducted by the South African Nursing Council.  This is done in order to:

	minimise and eliminate the security risk associated with examinations, including setting papers, typing, packing and dispatching (internally), distribution (externally), invigilation and security of examination papers and scripts in transit.
	reduce the time for the processing of examinations and publication of examination results.

IMPLEMENTATION

The Council, at its meeting of 28-29 March 2012, approved the implementation of the improvement of the current examination system of all programmes where examinations are conducted by the South African Nursing Council as stated below:

	Changing of examination schedules from three times a year to two times a year (May and November)
	Reducing the number of examination centres in metropolitan cities, but retaining existing examination centres in remote areas
	Centralising the marking of examination scripts per province
	Extending the period for the moderation of examination scripts from five days to ten days.

This circular is applicable from 1 January 2013.

Signed
Mr T Mabuda
Registrar and CEO
South African Nursing Council

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4 April 2012

South African Nursing Council – Easter Holidays Closure
5 April 2012 – 10 April 2012

Please be informed that the South African Nursing Council (SANC) offices will be closing at 13:00 on 5 April 2012 in preparation for Easter holidays, and re-opening on 10 April 2012 at 08:00.

Kindly inform all persons in your institutions so that they are aware in advance of the dates the Council will be closed.

We wish you safe Easter holidays.

Signed
Mr T Mabuda
Registrar and CEO

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15 December 2011

SOUTH AFRICAN NURSING COUNCIL – YEAR END CLOSURE

The South African Nursing Council offices will be closed at the year end from 27 December 2011 to 02 January 2012.  However, Cash Management will be opened for payment of annual fees only from 28 to 30 December 2011 between 08: 00 and 16: 00.

The SANC offices will close at 12: 00 on Friday, 23 December 2011.

The SANC offices will re – open at 08: 00 on Tuesday, 03 January 2012.

Kindly inform all persons in your institutions so that they are aware in advance of the dates the Council will be closed.

Alternatively, payments for annual fees can be made into the Council bank account.  Payments will be recorded effective from the date the payment is made into the bank account, or in the case of internet of other electronic banking payments, on the date that the transactions will be effected as per agreement with the client’s own bank.

SANC banking details are:

Signed
Tendani Mabuda (Mr)
Registrar and CEO
SA Nursing Council

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6 December 2011

Please be advised that services at South African Nursing Council have returned back to normal after the industrial action by NEHAWU members was suspended with effect from 05 December 2011.  However, we urge nurse practitioners to pay their annual fees through the bank, due to a high number of clients making payments at the counter, resulting in long queues.

SANC banking details are:

Annual practicing certificates will be sent to nurse practitioners through their postal address. If your address has changed, please fax new address to +27 12 420 1084.

Your understanding and patience is much appreciated. We apologize for any inconvenience caused.

Signed
Tendani Mabuda (Mr)
Registrar and CEO
S A Nursing Council

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22 November 2011

The South African Nursing Council will be providing limited services from the 23rd of November 2011, due to an industrial action by NEHAWU members.  We therefore like to encourage nurse practitioners to pay annual fees through the bank.

SANC banking details are:

Annual practising certificates will be sent to you through your postal address.  If your address has changed, please fax new address to 012 420 1084.  South African Nursing Council will inform you as soon as services have returned back to normal.  We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Signed
Tendani Mabuda (Mr)
Registrar and CEO
S A Nursing Council

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4 October 2011

Annual Returns – Nursing Council Information Requirements in Terms of the Nursing Act

Provisions of the Nursing Act, 2005 enable the Nursing Council to require annual returns from both nursing education institutions and from employers of nurses. Sections 4(2)(k) and (l) read as follows:

“4. (2) The Council may—

(a) …;

(k) require nursing education institutions to submit annual returns of learner nurses and to submit any information that the Council may require;

(l) require employers to submit annual returns of nurses in their employ and any other information necessary to enable the Council to perform its functions and fulfil its objectives;”

Council has embarked on an effort to collect personal and contact details of Nurses, Midwives and Student Nurses. This information is required:

	To improve the ability of Council to communicate with practitioners and students; and
	To enable Council to submit complete information to the National Learner Records Database (NLRD). In this regard please note that the NLRD contains details of both active learners and learners who were previously active (whether qualified or not).

You are therefore required to supply the Council with the required information in respect of every:

	Nursing or Midwifery practitioner currently in your employment; and
	Nursing/Midwifery student who is currently registered with your institution.

The exact information required is shown on the attached questionnaire. You can make and use copies of these questionnaires to submit the required information (this may be the obvious choice for small organisations). However, larger organisations are encouraged to download and use a copy of the requirements in spreadsheet form from the SANC website. The data can be imported into the spreadsheets from the organisation’s HR system or can be populated manually.

When you are satisfied that the information is correct, it should be forwarded to SANC:

IN PAPER FORMAT

For Attention: Senior Manager: Information Management
South African Nursing Council
P O Box 1123
Pretoria
0001

IN ELECTRONIC FORMAT (SPREADSHEET)

For Attention: Senior Manager: Information Management
RegisterMaintenance@sanc.co.za

Your urgent attention to this matter will be appreciated. Please note that all submissions must be returned by 25 November 2011 at the latest.

Please try to provide as much of the optional information as possible. It is vital during this initial information collection exercise that at the very least the details which are indicated as compulsory be provided. These compulsory details include the following items:

	SANC Reference number;
	Surname;
	Full Given Names;
	Mobile phone numbers;
	Residential address (at HOME – not at your place of employment / where you are a student)
	Name of Employer;
	Area of Employment (or, if employed in more than one area, predominant area of employment); and
	The identity number and date of birth fields – these will be used to confirm that the correct record is updated.

Please note that there is also a short questionnaire about your organisation on the SANC website (www.sanc.co.za). This must also be completed in order to register your organisation on the SANC database. Once your organisation has been registered, you will be sent a confirmation together with a SANC reference number to be used by your organisation in future.

Thank you for your kind cooperation in supplying the required information.

If you have any questions, please put them in writing addressed as indicated above. The appropriate person to assist you will then make contact with you with answers to your queries.

Yours faithfully

Signed
Mr Tendani Mabuda
Registrar and CEO
South African Nursing Council

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12 September 2011

South African Nursing Council

Examination Schedule – 2012

The Examination Schedule for 2012 has been published on this website.

Kindly take note of the following requirements applicable to the Council examinations:

1. The closing date for examinations should be strictly adhered to and no exceptions or allowances will be made to extend these dates.
2. Only registered students/pupils will be eligible for an examination: The Head of the Nursing Education Institution (NEI) must ensure that all students/pupils are registered with the Council within the prescribed period (this does not apply to candidates writing the Admission examination for Enrolled Nurses, Admission examination for Foreign Nurses and Refugee Nurses writing any Council examination/s. Candidates cannot be registered for an examination with an identity number, Council reference numbers are needed. Please follow up with our Registration department first if students are not registered for the course before registering students for an examination.
   
3. The Council will only process examination applications for entry into the Council examination that meet the following requirements:

a. Submitted on the Council’s Application for Examination Form which is completed in full and signed by the relevant person/s (The name/s and surname as appearing in the identity document)

b. Accompanied by the prescribed fee or proof of payment of the fee into the Council’s bank account, such payment should be done by the Nursing Education Institution (NEI) (group payment) and not by individual students/pupils. Banking details are as follows: 

NB: The Head of the NEI must ensure that payment of fees by their Provincial Department or Head Office must be for the particular NEI and examination.

Provincial bulk payments without specifications create administrative challenges and delay in processing of the applications.

c. All the required documentation to be included.

4. Only those students/pupils that have been issued examination timetable number will be eligible to write Council examination.
5. All practical MARK SHEETS must be submitted to the Council by Registered mail/Courier by the end of the month in which the examination is written. Examination results will be published without the practical marks if the PRACTICAL MARK SHEETS as per SANC format are not submitted on time, the results will be incomplete as such disadvantages the candidate.
6. The SANC requests the invigilators not to enclose the practical mark sheet or any other documents with the Examination package.
7. The Council reserves the right to cancel an examination reflected on the schedule if there are insufficient candidates for such an examination/s.
8. The SANC requests the NEI’s to inform all their learners of the outcome of the examination results once published. No examination results will be given to NEI’s telephonically.
9. In respect of the Admission Examination for the Course Leading to Enrolment as Nurse, the NEI has the responsibility to identify a learner/s who cannot be admitted into the second year of the course leading to Enrolment as Nurse (R.2175) before the learner has written and successfully passed the admission examination for the R.2175 course. No learner/s shall be allowed to write the Final year examination of the R.2175 course before they have passed either the First year examination R.2175, Auxiliary examination R.2176 or the Admission examination for R.2175

Signed
MR T MABUDA
REGISTRAR 
S A NURSING COUNCIL

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7 July 2011

Extension of date for Nursing Education Institutions to offer Legacy Nursing Qualifications

Circular 3/2010 has reference.

The Council has in its meeting of 28^th and 29^th June 2011, resolved to extend the date of offering Legacy Nursing Qualifications to 30 June 2013.  The implications of this resolution is that the last intake of Legacy Nursing Qualifications is therefore extended from 30 June 2012 to 30 June 2013.  The rationale for this extension is to allow adequate time for Nursing Education Institutions (NEI’s) to develop plans of phasing out legacy nursing qualifications while phasing in New Nursing Qualifications that are aligned to National Qualifications Framework (NQF).

The process of registering the New Nursing Qualifications with South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) and promulgation of the related regulations by the National Department of Health is under way.  Nursing Education Institutions shall be informed of further developments in this regard in due course.

Enquiries may be directed to the Senior Manager Nursing Education and Training:

Dr S Mkhize email smkhize@sanc.co.za, tel 012 420 1022.

Signed
Tendani Mabuda (Mr)
Registrar and CEO
South African Nursing Council

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