Open AccessWork history of nurses trained in natal
Author(s) -
Leana R. Uys
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
curationis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.408
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2223-6279
pISSN - 0379-8577
DOI - 10.4102/curationis.v14i2.323
Subject(s) - cape , population , work (physics) , geography , socioeconomics , nursing , demography , medicine , sociology , archaeology , engineering , mechanical engineering
In a recent survey it was found that although Natal/KwaZulu has 25.1% of the South African population, it has only 20,9% of the country’s registered nurses (Muller and Coetzee, 1990). This means that Natal has the worst population to registered nurse ratio of the three large urban areas (Natal 551:1, Western Cape 324:1; Pretoria/Witwatersrand 319:1). The same report showed that, although, Natal/KwaZulu has 25,1% of the population, it only trains 9,2% of the current nursing students (Ibid). These figures paint a worrying picture of the region’s ability to supply the health manpower needs of its people