The Nurse in the University: A History of University Education for South African Nurses: A Case Study of the University of the Witwatersrand
This paper charts the history and debates surrounding the introduction of academic, university-based training of nurses in South Africa. This was a process that was drawn out over five decades, beginning in the late 1930s. For nurses, university training was an important part of a process of profess...
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| description | This paper charts the history and debates surrounding the introduction of academic, university-based training of nurses in South Africa. This was a process that was drawn out over five decades, beginning in the late 1930s. For nurses, university training was an important part of a process of professionalization; however, for other members of the medical community, nursing was seen as being linked to women's service work. Using the case-study of the University of the Witwatersrand, one of South Africa's premier universities and the place in the country to offer a university-based nursing program, we argue that an historical understanding of the ways in which nursing education was integrated into the university system tells us a great deal about the professionalization of nursing. This paper also recognises, for the first time, the pioneers of this important process. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-6486e29b3b02469b8bd1bedf55e2a0ef2025-08-20T02:23:51ZengWileyNursing Research and Practice2090-14292090-14372011-01-01201110.1155/2011/813270813270The Nurse in the University: A History of University Education for South African Nurses: A Case Study of the University of the WitwatersrandSimonne Horwitz0Department of History, University of Saskatchewan, 9 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 1H9, CanadaThis paper charts the history and debates surrounding the introduction of academic, university-based training of nurses in South Africa. This was a process that was drawn out over five decades, beginning in the late 1930s. For nurses, university training was an important part of a process of professionalization; however, for other members of the medical community, nursing was seen as being linked to women's service work. Using the case-study of the University of the Witwatersrand, one of South Africa's premier universities and the place in the country to offer a university-based nursing program, we argue that an historical understanding of the ways in which nursing education was integrated into the university system tells us a great deal about the professionalization of nursing. This paper also recognises, for the first time, the pioneers of this important process.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/813270 |
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| title | The Nurse in the University: A History of University Education for South African Nurses: A Case Study of the University of the Witwatersrand |
| title_full | The Nurse in the University: A History of University Education for South African Nurses: A Case Study of the University of the Witwatersrand |
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| title_short | The Nurse in the University: A History of University Education for South African Nurses: A Case Study of the University of the Witwatersrand |
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