Wits nurses, study in a rigorous, vibrant multidisciplinary environment that stimulates intellectual inquiry and professional responsiveness. Small group learning is the main teaching / learning strategy. Students engage in cooperative learning to systematically work through carefully constructed real-life health scenarios, deciding what learning is needed to access information, discerning, which information produces the best evidence into the management of health issues. As a consequence, a Wits nurse, learns to ask critical questions in health nursing practice, knows how to analyse important health issues – put forward appropriate solutions which will follow through with competent action and relevant communication.
A Wits nurse is not only a team player but knows how to lead a team and to be of influence in matters of self decision making and policy. In all of this a Wits nurse understands team dynamics, the diversity of views of team members and knows how to facilitate a unified caring approach for the good of the patient and community.
