Welcome to SATS
The South African Theatre Nurse Organisation - SATS - is a professional organisation,
dedicated to enhancing the professionalism of operating theatre nurses.
SATS believes that in accordance with the Constitution of SA and the Human Rights
Charter, every patient has the right to the highest standard of care, according
to his or her needs. It is a historical fact that a suitably qualified registered
nurse practitioner assists the surgeon during a surgical intervention. She is accountable
for her acts and omissions, and that of the support staff. We further believe that
every peri-operative nurse practitioner is accountable for his/her personal skills
and knowledge development, clinical practice and professional practice.
SATS is a Section 21 company since October 2002, and therefore a non-profitable
organisation.
Nurses’ Day (2012-05-11)
Nursing is not a glamorous profession. It asks of those that enrol for the profession to make sacrifices that you will not find in many other professions. The hours that you work are, long unsociable, and the impact on your personal life and your relationships can leave the nurse in turmoil. Good stories about nursing care is not often published in newspapers, aknowledgement of a job well done is hardly ever mentioned. The demand for more and more hours of hard work is ever increasing.
BUT I would like to look at the profession in another way.
Remember when you held a child’s hand when he was scared? When you stroked an elderly patients hair when she /he was worried? When you wet some person fighting against a raging fevers lips. When you hugged a worried mother standing next to her dying sons bed. When you comforted the family that said a last goodbye to their father. When you encouraged the young women learning of her breast cancer?? When you listened patiently to the Alzheimer patient telling the same story?
Those are the things that you will be remembered for. That is what generations to come will talk about. Remember that, when you walk the long dark corridor of your hospital, or attend to a patient in the small hours of the morning!!. Remember Florence Nightingale and her lamp, and you will be encouraged.
God Bless you all on this Nurses day 2012.
Villi Pieterse
SATS Gauteng