Prof Jeanette Maritz (2015)

Category: Scholar

Area: Mental Health Nursing

Location: UNISA

E-mail: [email protected]

Prof Jeanette Maritz’s research focus has remained within the development of nurses, especially novice nurse researchers, through employing a coaching and mentoring approach. Her research has engaged these strategies within the clinical practice of nurses, research education and research practice. The aim has been to support nurses, both clinically and within the educational environment. Coaching and mentoring strategies have been studied both in real-time situations, and lately within a virtual context, in order to reach novice nurse researchers across our borders into the rest of Africa. Prof Maritz’s future research includes the facilitation of higher-order critical-thinking skills of novice researchers and the academic pathways of nurse researchers

Prof Jeanette Maritz is therefore recognised for her work on : Mental Health Nursing.