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Nurses celebrate International Nurses Day in De Aar, Northern Cape
Led by provincial Chairperson, cde Carol Whittaker, nurses in De Aar, Northern Cape, celebrate International Nurses Day in Style, highlighting the need to unleash continuous professional development as a source to empower nurses to execute their work of ensuring a healthier nation.
And a healthier nation leads to a healthier socio-economic growth. Nurses are the centre that underpins that healthy growth.
Cde Carol Glendyn Whittaker stated that nurses are the heartbeat and brain cells of the health system. Nurses need to stand together to be a force for change. It is only DENOSA on all platforms who fights for the rights of nurses. No other union even bothers to do this. They are only interested in the nurses\\\\\\\' subscription.
For nurses to be Force For Change they will need to speak up on matters of NHI, who the leaders in health is - re MEC (ARE WE REALLY SO COMFORTABLE TO BE LEAD BY TEACHERS) etc. This requires nurses to be become involved in politics and their political branches.
Nurses have shown that they can be a force for change when they are capacited. We have brought about remarkable changes in matters like HIV/AIDS through the NIMART programme as an example.
Are nurses going to be the force for change that they can be? It is only nurses who can ensure that our college functions the way it supposed to. Through this nurses will ensure that there is a continuous production of quality nurses.
We need to view ourselves as the most vital resource in the health system and take it serious.
Amandla…
