tailieunhanh - The Profession and Education of Nurses in South Africa

Nurses are often said to be the backbone of health services, but in South Africa their profession itself is in need of care. This monograph considers the profile, image and status of nursing today and the nature and role of nursing education. A major concern is that, although nursing still attracts many more students than there are places available, the gap between the large numbers who complete their training and the relatively small growth in the professional registers, indicates high attrition rates. The decline in the role of the public sector in the training of nurses is another worrying. | Free download from Nursing in a New Era The Profession and Education of Nurses in South Africa Mignonne Breier Angelique Wildschut Thando Mgqolozana The ATLANTIC Philanthropies HSRC PRESS Free download from Published by HSRC Press Private Bag X9182 Cape Town 8000 South Africa First published 2009 ISBN soft cover 978-0-7969-2274-8 ISBN pdf 978-0-7969-2275-5 2009 Human Sciences Research Council Copy-edited by Lisa Compton Typeset by Simon van Gend Cover design by Jenny Young Printed by Logo Print South Africa Distributed in Africa by Blue Weaver Tel 27 0 21 701 4477 Fax 27 0 21 701 7302 Distributed in Europe and the United Kingdom by Eurospan Distribution Services EDS Tel 44 0 20 7240 0856 Fax 44 0 20 7379 0609 Distributed in North America by Independent Publishers Group IPG Call toll-free 800 888 4741 Fax 1 312 337 5985 contents List of tables and figures v Preface vii Acknowledgements viii Acronyms and abbreviations ix Free download from 1 Introduction I A conceptual framework for the study of nursing 1 Research design 7 Limitations 11 Overview of the monograph 14 2 Growth and profile of the nursing profession The growth of nursing as a profession 15 The growth of nursing in numbers 16 Profile of the profession 19 Distribution of nurses 23 Conclusion 28 3 The demand for nurses 29 Who says there is a shortage 29 Vacancy rates in the nursing profession 32 Demand for nurses due to HIV and AIDS 33 Conclusion 42 4 Migration of South African nurses 43 Nurse migration as an international phenomenon 43 Statistics on the migration of South African nurses 44 A qualitative view of nurse migration 51 Views of academics and students on emigration 60 Conclusion 63 5 Nursing education 65 An overview of the production of nurses 65 Geographical distribution of nursing training 70 Trends in the production of nurses 73 Growth in SANC .