CURRICULUM VITAENicola Anne Fouché 05/05/1961

QUALIFICATIONSQUALIFICATIONS

Diploma in General Nursing/Registered General Nurse(with Distinction)

Andrew Fleming Hospital, Salisbury, Rhodesia 1982.

Diploma in Midwifery/Registered Midwife

Mowbray Maternity Hospital, Mowbray, Cape Town 1983.

Diploma in Intensive Nursing Science/Registered Critical Care Nurse (with Distinction)

Carinus Nursing College, Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town 1989. Advanced University Diploma in Nursing Education/Registered Nurse

Educator

University of Cape Town, Cape Town 1999.

Master of Science (Nursing)

University of Cape Town, Cape Town 2004.

Accredited Basic Life Instructor

In conjunction with the American Heart Association 2004.

Assessor Course

Assessment College of Pretoria, 2005.

Ad Hominum Promotion to Senior Lecturer

University of Cape Town, Faculty of Health Sciences. 2007.

CURRENT POSITIONCURRENT POSITION

Senior Lecturer (full-time) in the Division of Nursing & Midwifery, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town.

Full responsibility for designing, convening and teaching of 3 semester modules and 2 half courses including all clinical teaching, clinical accompaniment, supervision and evaluation of students undertaking the Critical Care Nursing (General) Pathway.

This requires liaising with all external lecturers and convenors, administration of marks, fieldwork, external examiners etc.

Designing a Clinical Masters Degree for Critical Care Nursing (Generic). Part of the Nursing Academic team in re-structuring the ‘new’ Postgraduate Diploma

in Nursing

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Cross disciplinary teaching within the School of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences for Speech and Communication Sciences Disorders, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Nutrition & Dietetics.

At Faculty/School level, responsibilities include co-ordinating input from 6 professions in the Department for the Clinical Skills Centre.

Directorate representative for Student Support and Continuing Professional Development.

Teaching of 3rd year medical and physiotherapy students, basic life support at the Clinical Skills Centre and evaluation of medical students in semesters 3 & 4, Becoming a Doctor. This also includes Cuban medical students.

External Examiner for the Western Cape College of Nursing for Fundamentals of Nursing Science I (Diploma for registration as a Nurse [General, Psychiatric & Community] and Midwife. Secundus for Senate re: examinations, curriculum and student matters.

External Examiner University of Stellenbosch Postgraduate and Honours Diploma in Critical Care Nursing.

RECOGNITION FROM PEERSRECOGNITION FROM PEERS

Awarded the Avis Campbell Trophy for the Highest Academic Aggregate and Best Practical Nurse over 3 years 1982.

Awarded Honours for final examination for the Diploma in Intensive Nursing Science 1990.

Co-awarded Bristol-Myers Squibb Award in 1993 for a nursing paper entitled “Can ICU Nurses adapt to changes in the ‘90’s?”

Awarded 1st prize for a poster competition 1994 at Groote Schuur Hospital on cost containment.

Awarded the Adcock Ingram Critical Care Award 1994 for the best free paper by a nursing member entitled “Critical Care is Costly Care”.

Received merit award from the Provincial Administration of the Western Cape 1996 for recognition of dedicated service.

Nominated in the same year for special merit award for cost containment. Awarded the Bristol-Myers Squibb Award 1997 for 2 nursing papers entitled “Pain

management in the ICU ~ something old, something new”, and “Candiduria, a budding dilemma for mouldy Intensivists.”

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Class Medal for distinction in Nursing Dynamics [Practical teaching] (Advanced University Diploma in Nursing Education) 1998.

“Practical inotrope use in ICU” and “Reconnecting with Central Venous Lines.” The Combined Congress of The South African Thoracic Society, The Critical Care Society of Southern Africa and The Allergy Society of South Africa, Cape Town August 2003.

Received The Critical Care Society of Southern Africa Presidential Award for Nursing Excellence and contributions to Critical Care, August 2003.

Invited to speak at Copicon 2005 Sun City, The Combined Congress of the South African Thoracic Society and the Critical Society of Southern African on Masters Thesis, “Nurses lived experiences in caring for long-term mechanically ventilated patients in Intensive Care Units.”

Nominated by the University of Cape Town for a ‘5 Star Staff Award’ for commitment to students’ academic teaching and learning and support November 2005.

Opened the UCT/Critical Care Society of Southern Africa 2005 Refresher Course, Cape Town, Nursing session with a paper entitled “The Future of Critical Care Nursing in South Africa”. Also presented a paper entitled “The Dreaded Pulmonary Artery Catheter.”

Invited to Jönköping University (Sweden) to teach Critical Care Nursing and collaborate a research and student/lecturer exchange programme for 2005 and again in 2006.

CCSSA Refresher Course University Witswatersrand 2006 presented 2 papers entitled “The Last Hours of Living” and “Prone positioning in Critical Care Nursing.”

Participated in data collection 2006 for a research project entitled “Organisation and Staffing of Critical Care Services within the Western Cape” under the auspices of The Critical Care Society of Southern Africa. Will be accredited with co-authorship on publication.

Participated in a study “A Profile of Postgraduate Critical Care Nursing Research” conducted by the Dept of Anaesthesiology, University of the Witwatersrand 2006. This entailed data collection from the 2 universities that have Critical Care Nursing programmes.

Presented a paper entitled “International Collaboration. The UCT and Jönköping Experience”. FUNDISA Annual Conference. UCT Graduate School of Business, Cape Town 2007.

Awarded the Medi-Clinic Nursing Award 2007 (R5000.00) for best presentation at the Annual Academic Research evening run by the Critical Care Society of Southern

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Africa; Cape Western Branch for a research study entitled “An investigation into Nurses’ perceptions of noise in a Coronary Care Unit and a Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit at Groote Schuur Hospital.”

The Combined Congress of the South African Thoracic Society and the Critical Society of Southern African, Sun City 2007 - “An investigation into Nurses’ perceptions of noise in a Coronary Care Unit and a Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit at Groote Schuur Hospital” and “Prone ventilation: an art and a science.”

CCSSA Refresher Course, Port Elizabeth in conjunction with Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University 2007 presented 2 papers entitled “Are Critical Care Nurses’ touchy feely?” and “Soon it will be our turn – the elderly in ICU”.

The Combined Congress of the South African Thoracic Society and the Critical Society of Southern African, Cape Town 2008 – “Reflective Teaching and Learning in Critical Care Nursing. Do we or Don’t We?”

Invited speaker at The South African Heart Congress, Wild Coast Sun – 2008 “Being Different. Creative and Innovative Methods of Teaching and Learning at Postgraduate Level” and “Psychological Aspects following Myocardial Infarction.”

The Combined Congress of the South African Thoracic Society and the Critical Society of Southern African, Cape Town 2010 – “How to get published”

UCT Summer School January 2011 – Presented a course on ‘The Origins of Thanatology and ‘The Theories of Dying and Dying’.

The Combined Congress of the South African Thoracic Society and the Critical Society of Southern African, Durban 2011 – “Post Traumatic Stress and the ICU Nurse: Fact or Fiction?"

The Social Context of Death, Dying & Disposal -10th International Conference. Changing European Death Ways: New Perspectives in Death Studies. Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. “We don’t handle death well.” Intensive care nurses’ experiences of death and dying. The Unversity of Cape Town’s perspective.

Critical Care Nurses Update 18th February 2012. Presentation on “ICU nurses’ experiences of death and dying.” V&A Waterfront, Cape Town.

University of Cape Town Emerging Researcher Award 2008, 2009 and 2011. Awarded URC-Carnegie Research Development Grant: PhD Completion – R45

000.00 Expert Nurse witness/consultant with the Department of Justice and private

attorneys re: cases of suspected nursing negligence.

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Nursing Science Editor and member of the Editorial Board for the South African Journal of Critical Care.

Teaches annually into the Medi-Clinic In-service Programme for Critical Care Nurses. Runs an in-service programme for UCT Academic Private Hospital. Continues to work within a small team of Nurse Educators countrywide in writing up

clinical guidelines for Critical Care Nursing and addressing Critical Care Nursing Education.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIESACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

Elected onto the Executive Council of the Critical Care Society of Southern Africa in 2003 to address education and training of Critical Care Nurses (only nurse in a predominately male/medical milieu).

Invited by the South African Qualifications Authority and the National Qualifications Framework to work with the Standards Generating Body for writing standards for Critical Care Nursing (General).

Served in office as Chairman of the Critical Care Society Cape Western Branch 2003.

On task team working on guidelines for Intensive Care in South Africa with the South African Society of Anaesthesiologists.

Faculty representative for the Transformation & Equity Workgroup and UCT Student Support with the School of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences 2006.

Chair of the Curriculum Development Committee at Divisional level 2006- Nominated onto the CPD portfolio for School of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences

2007. Faculty representative for the Medical School Library Committee. Attended a Writers Workshop and a Supervisor’s Course through the Department of

Research & Innovation 2005 and 2006. Participated in the Emerging Researchers Programme through the Department of

Research & Innovation 2005-2007 in preparation for PhD.PUBLICATIONS PUBLICATIONS (peer reviewed)(peer reviewed)

Fouché, N.A. 1984. ‘Intravenous equipment review,’ The South African Journal of Critical Care, 1984, vol.10.

Fouché, N.A. 2001. ‘The role of the Critical Care Nurse in managing low cardiac output,’ The South African Journal of Critical Care, vol.17, no.2.

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Fouché, N. A. 2002. ‘Fighting losing battles,’ The Southern African Journal of Critical Care, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 36-38.

Fouché, N. A. 2005. ‘Growing our own Timber’. The future of Nursing Research in South Africa. The Southern African Journal of Critical Care, vol.21, No.2, pp.68-69.

Fouché, N. A. 2005. ‘Unpredictability. Nurses’ experiences in caring for long-term mechanically ventilated patients in intensive care units. The Southern African Journal of Critical Care, vol.21, No.2, pp. 91-94.

Fouché, N. A. 2006. ‘What a Critical Care Nursing Curriculum does not teach us’. The Southern African Journal of Critical Care, vol.22, No.2, pp. 46-47.

Fouché, N. A. 2006. ‘The Last Hours of Living in the ICU – priorities of care for Critical Care Nurses. The Southern African Journal of Critical Care, vol.22, No.2, pp. 65-67.

Fouché, N. A. 2007. ‘What does the Occupation-Specific Dispensation (OSD) in the public service mean for nursing?’ The Southern African Journal of Critical Care, vol.23, No.2, pp. 53-54.

Fouché, N. A. 2008. ‘Benner is back.’ The Southern African Journal of Critical Care, vol.24, No.2, pp. 46-48.

Fouché, N. A. 2009. ‘Word of mouth goes a long way for critically ill patients’ The Southern African Journal of Critical Care, vol.25, No.2, pp. 34-35.

Fouché, N. A. 2010. ‘Crash and burn – ‘PTSD in ICU’. The Southern African Journal of Critical Care, vol.26, No.2, pp. 36-40.

Fouché, N. A. 2011. ‘Stewardship in healthcare, in the nursing profession and of self’. The Southern African Journal of Critical Care, vol.27, No.2, pp. 38-40.

Draft article in conjunction with Dr S Duma entitled “Literature review in qualitative research: To do or not to do?”

PUBLICATIONS PUBLICATIONS (non-peer reviewed)(non-peer reviewed) Fouché, N.A. 1998. ‘Practical tips and perilous pitfalls in antibiotic administration.’

3M Medical products magazine.

BOOKSBOOKS

Intensive Care Nurses’ Manual. Updated and revised in co-authorship with Dr. David Linton 1997.

Fouché, N.A. (2009). Promoting the safe administration of medicines. In D. van Rooyen & P. Jordan (Eds. RSA). African Edition of Foundations of Nursing Practice – Fundamentals of Holistic Care. London, Mosby Elsevier

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PhD (Ed) CANDIDATEPhD (Ed) CANDIDATE

Submitted manuscript 23 August 2013.Submitted manuscript 23 August 2013. “We don’t handle death well”. Implications for a Postgraduate Nursing Curriculum of Intensive Care nurses’ experiences of death in the ICU.

Dr Kevin Williams in Centre for Higher Education Development, Faculty of Humanities is the Primary Supervisor.

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