All I am, and all I have, are all thanks to and only by the goodness and grace of God, without whom I am nothing and nowhere!
I am a wife, I am a mother, I am a nurse. And very seldom in that order…
I started my “nursing career” at a very young age, treating our neighbour’s kids for injuries they didn’t even have, with a bottle of Merthiolate, a roll of cotton wool and a box of Band-Aids – you can just imagine how popular I was with all the moms, with their kids running around with red blotches all over their bodies and especially their faces! Needless to say, nursing was my future!
I completed my B.Cur Degree in nursing in 1997 at, the then, RAU, now know as the University of Johannesburg, and have never stopped studying. I have completed my Nursing Education, Nursing Management, Primary Health Care, and Occupational Health Care qualifications, not to mention the multitude of short courses that I have completed and still want to do! My mom always says I am too dumb to know when to stop!
My occupational health career started in 2009, when the OMP at a mine in the Northern Cape encouraged me to explore the field, and I haven’t looked back. I have worked in the mining, construction and engineering industries and have had the opportunity and privilege of starting up and leading 4 new occupational health clinics for 3 of the companies I worked for.
In 2016 we moved to the Eastern Cape. I soon identified the need for occupational health services in the area, and the opportunity presented itself in 2017 for me to open my own occupational health and primary health care practice.
The road thus far been extremely fun, with a lot of challenges, but I would not change it for anything! Although very tiring and very unrewarding at times, what makes nursing so very special and worthwhile, is that ONE patient, out of a million, who turns around and, with sincerity and gratitude words cannot describe, says THANK YOU. And that is what makes nursing the best job in the world. Because that thanks are not because of me or what I did, but because of what He did through me – my hands are just His instruments!
