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Ramadimetja Mooa is the Head of Department of Nursing, University of Pretoria. My interest is vested in women’s health, with a focus on marginalization and vulnerability that stems from clinical practice experience in community healthcare. I co-founded a NGO to accompany women who have experienced violence to court. My PhD explored the culture of prosecution of violence against women in South African courts. Current research focus on women’s issues such as social status, violence against women, homelessness, human trafficking, (en)-gendering institutions and indigenous knowledge systems.
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Beyond the boundaries workshop will debunk and demystify the traditional ways of knowledge translation in academia. In this workshop we will deliberate on how best the generated knowledge from our studies and projects can be shared and translated to meet the knowledge needs of diverse audiences.
Transdisciplinarity looks outside the box in teaching, learning, research and societal engagement to explore various ways of learning and knowledge translation
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Prof Fhumulani Mavis Mulaudzi is the South African Research Chair in the Ubuntu Community Model in Nursing Project. She held positions as the Head of Department of Nursing Science for ten years and the Chair of the School of Health Care Sciences at the University of Pretoria. She is the first Deputy President of Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa and President of the Global Nurses and Midwives Rotary Club. Prof Mulaudzi is also chief editor of Curationis Journal.
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Health professionals have a duty to provide the highest possible standard of care while respecting the dignity of patients. Unfortunately, there have been negative reports about the quality of healthcare which suggest a lack of Ubuntu among health professionals. Ubuntu, an African philosophy, gives societies a moral foundation. The workshop aims to unpack Ubuntu through concept mapping and value clarification. The workshop aims to equip participants with ways to reintegrate Ubuntu values into healthcare practice.
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The panellists will be representatives from African traditional health, Homeopathy, Music therapy, Ayurveda and Biomedicine.
Dr Bhana-Pema investigated different health care practices in her research and educational practices. She is a lecturer at the Department of Nursing Science, University of Pretoria and served as the undergraduate program manager.
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The panel will debate the following questions:
What are the principles underlying alternative fields of practice?
What is involved in the wholistic healing process in fields of practice (assessment, diagnosis, interventions and evaluation)?
What are the benefits and challenges in alternative fields of practice?
How can more than one practice be integrated in patient care?
What is the relevance of integration within a South African context.
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Prof Mokgadi Matlakala is the academic chairperson of the Department of Health Studies and the director of WHOCC at UNISA. She holds a D. Lit et Phil degree in Nursing Sciences. Prof Matlakala has published 35 indexed articles with h-index 8, 175 citations, 3 books and book chapters. She is a Journal Sponsor for Africa Journal of Nursing and Midwifery, Section Editor for Curationis, Ethics Officer, TAU Fellow and recipient of a UNISA Excellence Award
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A workshop to empower academics with the basic principles of publication:
How do I prepare my academic work/research to be published?
How do I choose a suitable journal?
What do editors/reviewers look for when they review a manuscript for potential publication?
The format, layout and technical care of the manuscript.
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Mrs Ninette Kotzee
Ms Noluthando Zikode
Mrs Vathiswa Maringa
Ms Kotzee has a Masters in Philanthropic Studies from Indiana Purdue University (USA). Her grant writing knowledge is built on more than a decade’s service at University of Pretoria. She is currently the Research Grants Manager at the Department of Research and Innovation (UP). Her responsibilities include working with researchers to identify and successfully apply for research funding.
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Research funding is highly competitive, in both the local and international landscape. Grant writing skills in the higher education sector is essential for the advancement of research careers and to conduct impactful research. The purpose of this workshop is to capacitate attendees to effectively identify funding opportunities, prepare grant proposals, manage research projects and. Research applications reviews will also be covered.
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Dr Michelle Janse van Rensburg
Ms Dimakatso Nonyane
Dr Helga Lister is an occupational therapy lecturer at the University of Pretoria. Her work focuses mainly on service learning in the community. She coordinates various interprofessional and interdisciplinary projects within the city of Tshwane. She recently completed her PhD in public health on food security of women living with HIV and disability.
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This workshop will serve as a continuation of growth in the existing networks of community engagement and community-situated work-integrated learning. Participants will experience the future search methodology and use it to explore any shifts occurring in education, especially as this field develops. The action steps will guide participants to incorporate changes for successful interprofessional and interdisciplinary community work.
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Prof M Yazbek
Dr F Mafisa
https://www.up.ac.za/cf-ubuntu-healthcare/article/3177043/workshops-13-september-2023
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The purpose of this workshop is to capacitate the attendees with information on the new partogram and refreshing their skill in the management of shoulder dystocia and cord prolapse.
At the end of the session, attendees will practice how to:
- Plot the new partogram
- Interpret the new partogram
- Practice the management of shoulder dystocia
- Practice the management of cord prolapse
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Dr. Alicia Porter is a Child and Adolescent
Psychiatrist, and the clinical head of the child and family unit at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic hospital. As joint appointee, she lectures in the Department of Psychiatry, University of the Witwatersrand. She is a coordinator for the Healthcare Workers Care Network, established to support healthcare workers during the pandemic to train and support healthcare workers. Her special interests are among others mental health and mental health in the workplace, and burnout.
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The workshop aims to support healthcare workers who are often exposed to stress and trauma in the workplace. Understanding burnout and stress in the workplace may empower healthcare workers to prevent mental health problems, develop effective ways of coping, identify danger signs and seek treatment and support.
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Professor Rachel Tsakani Lebese is a Research Professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Venda for 7 years. Her research interest is rooted around culture, Ubuntu, sexual and reproductive health, and applying community-engaged participatory rural appraisal. Prof. Lebese has over two decades of experience in community-based Nursing Education. She has supervised to completion 14 master’s and 12 PhD candidates and has published 85 articles in accredited journals.
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We will have a panel dialogue workshop about COVID-19. The dialogue will shed light on the extent to which different stakeholders have been affected by the pandemic. The panel will discuss experiences related to 1. Infection with the virus, 2. Nursing care of people infected with the virus, and 3. A family member infected by the virus and admitted to ICU.
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