Category: Leader & Manager
Area: Private Sector
Location: Life Healthcare
E-mail: [email protected]
Mr Petrus (Fasie) Smith has been a nurse working in nursing practice for 38 years. Mr Smith is an Executive Member of the Forum for Professional Nurse Leaders and in the past has served on a national committee of the Department of Health to establish nursing norms for the nursing profession in South Africa.
Mr Smith has worked at all levels in nursing practice both in the public and private sector. At a nursing management level, he gained significant experience into the commissioning of hospitals in the private sector and was the Nursing Leader in the commissioning of 12 hospitals. Mr Smith was the clinical leader in the development and implementation of a program of care for patients on the waiting list in the United Kingdom. Mr Smith also supported the development and implementation of a program for Operating Department Assistants in a private healthcare group in line with international practice. In addition, he was part of and instrumental in the development of an integrated Nursing Function (Nursing Practice, Nursing Education and Training and Infection Prevention and Control) at national level in the private sector.
Mr Petrus (Fasie) Smith is thus recognized for his work in: the Private Healthcare Sector.