Nurses who successfully complete the qualification will be advanced specialist practitioners functioning as:
Advanced professional nurse practitioners, managers and leaders:
Show respect for the dignity and uniqueness of human beings (as individual members of groups, families, organisations and their communities of concern) within their socio-cultural and religious contexts. This implies approaching human beings, as health service consumers, as physical, psychological and social beings within these contexts.
Demonstrate an understanding of the complexity and inter-dependency between human beings and their environment and between the bio-diverse organisms sharing our world as well as the influence of different views of life on the thoughts and behaviour of human beings.
Demonstrate competency in:
Effectively organising and managing own tasks, duties and responsibilities while prioritising all activities involved with nursing management at an advanced level.
Obtaining, co-ordinating and liasing with the necessary support services to ensure optimal care of health service consumers in both community and institutional settings.
Effectively managing and leading a multi-disciplinary team approach to nursing care as an advanced nurse manager. This includes accepting the responsibilities for the service rendered.
Effectively managing a nursing or comprehensive health service unit as an advanced nursing practitioner.
Functioning within, and limiting own practice to, a proven scope of skills, knowledge, competency and proficiency.
Functioning within the professional, ethical and legal framework governing the nursing profession and society as a whole.
Acting as a role model in the promotion and maintenance of optimal health and well being and within the norms and values of the nursing profession.
Providing effective and appropriate patient (client) advocacy when required.
Analysing health care policies and the ability to make suggestions and influence the process of health care policy development.
Collaborating harmoniously within nursing and multidisciplinary health care teams, in accordance with the principles of interdependence and co-operation in attaining common goals. Co-operation implies that human interactions, in teams, groups or organisations, should be effective in attaining such common goals.
Postgraduate (master's) scholars in Nursing Science:
Demonstrating scholarly characteristics, related to nursing science, at a postgraduate (master's) level, with reference to scientific inquiry into phenomena related to the art and science of nursing within clinical practice settings.
Demonstrate the ability to obtain, organise, analyse, evaluate and manage scientific data, review scientific literature and identify researchable problems in nursing practice.
Demonstrate the ability to develop nursing science, in the area of specialisation, through active research involvement.
After thorough, analytical and critically evaluative reasoning and creative thinking, demonstrate the ability to effectively utilise the scientific and technological aids and resources, as well as innovation, which underlie the scientific approach to nursing management.
This implies an inquiring approach to science and technology.
Furthermore it implies a willingness to initiate and/or accept innovation and change and to show a sense of responsibility towards the environment and the health of others whilst considering such changes and innovation.
Critically analysing the extent and importance of environmental health issues in South Africa, as related to nursing management.
Demonstrate the ability to analyse and apply nursing theory to managing clinical practice settings.
Exhibit a commitment to continuing education and professional development and to the value of life-long learning.
Demonstrate the ability to actively participate in, or initiate, the setting of standards for quality assurance in nursing practice.
Critical cross-field outcomes:
The following critical cross-field outcomes are combined with the specific qualification (exit level) outcomes and are considered to be an integral part of the expected outcomes at the exit level of master's degree in nursing science:
Problem solving, critical thinking and creativity.
Effective team building and teamwork.
Organisational and management skills.
Information management.
Language, communication and interpersonal skills.
Responsible utilisation of scientific knowledge and technology.
Global perceptions of humanity and the interrelationship between human beings and their environment.
Personal and professional development of postgraduate learners to the benefit of the South African society at large.
Statement of Competence:
At this level, a competent advanced nurse manager is capable of:
Demonstrating and understanding how health service organisations function and the forces that influence health care delivery.
Analyse the nursing service environment and identify appropriate strategies to achieve growth and renewal in nursing services.
Planning the changes in organisational elements to implement the chosen strategies.
Monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of the nursing service being rendered
Furthermore the professional nurse manager, as an advanced professional practitioner, is capable of successfully integrating these capabilities into safe, competent performance within the framework of advanced professional nursing practice. |
