MNur (Child Nursing), PG Dip(Child), RN

Busisiwe Jama works as a clinical educator within the Children’s Nursing Development Unit. Her role is to actively support designated clinical units to plan and implement practice improvement as part of the Best Practice Units project. She has particular responsibility for co-ordinating the coaching programme, which connects Best Practice project team leads with nursing leaders globally.   

Busisiwe Jama was born in Idutywa in the Eastern Cape. She has 21 years of experience as a professional nurse, and qualified as a Clinical Specialist Nurse in Child Nursing Science in 2005. After specialising, Busisiwe’s passion for best paediatric care led her home to the Eastern Cape, where she ploughed back her expertise to serve previously disadvantaged communities in rural areas. Busisiwe’s additional training in Inpatient Management of Severe Acute Malnutrition, and her passion for seeing severely malnourished children recover, enabled her to open a malnutrition unit at Mthatha Regional Hospital, where she used her strengths as an organiser to build a strong multidisciplinary Malnutrition Committee.

In 2020 Busisiwe obtained her Master’s in Child Nursing from the University of Cape Town and co-developed an Evidence-based Practice Guideline called ‘The Nurse’s Role in Partnering with Mothers to Maintain Accurate Fluid Balance Records’ which has been published as an Open Educational Resource.

Busisiwe believes that nurses must be fearless about bringing passion to our work. This passion gives us the courage and energy to achieve great things.