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Democratic Nurses Organisation of South Africa [DENOSA]

Link: 
http://www.denosa.org.za
DENOSA is a voluntary organisation for nurses and nursing in South Africa. DENOSA protects, promotes, develops, empowers and supports nurses and midwives/accoucheurs, to the benefit of nursing and health for all.

NurseSA

Link: 
http://www.nurses.co.za/
You will be able to access a comprehensive range of nursing resources from this site, and meet other nurses through our online community. This site has been provided by the Society of Private Nursing Practitioners (SPNP), and is updated monthly.

Private hospitals hire Indian nurses

Major private hospital groups in South Africa are importing staff from India to quell the dire shortage of qualified nurses facing the country. Hospital groups like Netcare, Life and Medi-Clinic said yesterday that Indian nurses, male and female, were highly skilled, fluent in English and dedicated to the profession.

Manto to pick new Nursing Council officials

The future of the beleaguered South African Nursing Council (SANC) will be in the hands of Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang next month when she picks 29 office bearers to serve in a new council, nursing unions said on Monday. The Democratic Nursing Organisation of SA (Denosa) and the SA Democratic Nursing Union (Sadnu) believe that the council's fortunes may change only if Tshabalala-Msimang makes the right appointments.

Treatment Monitor: Focus on Human Resources

With the advent of cheaper drugs, the debates on systems factors affecting HIV/AIDS care are increasingly shifting to questions of how HIV services can be staffed in low-income settings. These debates are informed by a rapidly worsening human resource crisis, which is driven by a brain drain from low-income countries, increasing morbidity and mortality among health workers and rapidly increasing service demands.

Registered Nurse

Closing date: 13 February 2007

Mosaic is currently looking for a Professional Nurse to administrate the clinic and implement the required duties. For the first few months the encumbent will be stationed at Mosaics clinic in Wynberg until the Browns Farm Clinic has been established.

Lack of nurses with ICU skills puts patients at risk

Hospitals are grappling with an acute shortage of nurses with the skills to work in intensive care units (ICUs), posing risks to patients and driving up health-care costs, according to a national audit reported in the latest SA Medical Journal. Our nurses are tired, often not healthy, and plagued by discontent and low morale, wrote the researchers.