Dr Nicki Fouché

I have been a registered nurse for 40 years having completed my nursing training in Rhodesia in 1982. I immigrated to SA to do my diploma in midwifery and worked at Groote Schuur Maternity Hospital. My interest in ICU nursing stemmed from my experience caring for ill mothers both pre and post-natal. I then worked for a private hospital group setting up a High Care Unit but returned to Groote Schuur to do my Diploma in Intensive Nursing Science. I have 34 years of ICU nursing experience. My PhD in Education at UCT was entitled ‘Intensive care nurses’ experiences of death in the ICU and the implications for postgraduate nursing pedagogy: A Heideggerian phenomenological study.’ I am the curriculum lead for designing a postgraduate diploma in Palliative Nursing.

Qualifications:

Diploma General Nursing Distinction.

Diploma in Midwifery.

Diploma Intensive Nursing Science Distinction.

Advanced University Diploma Nursing Education.

Master of Science (Nursing).

Doctor of Philosophy (Education).

Publications: (Last 5 years)

de Swardt, C, & Fouché, N. (2017). “What happens behind the curtains?” An exploration of ICU nurses’ experiences of post mortem care on patients who have died in intensive care. Intensive and Critical Care Nursing, 43, 118-115.

Fouché, N. (2019) A contemporary review of understanding the religious and cultural diversity of patients dying or who have died in the intensive care unit. A South African perspective. International Journal of Africa Nursing Sciences, 10, 61-67.

Fuzy, E; Clow,S: & Fouché, N (2020). ‘Please treat me like a person’—respectful care during adolescent childbirth. British Journal of Midwifery, June 2020, Vol 28, No 6.

Using a Delphi study to guide for the development of an indicator tool for Palliative Care in South Africa. Krause R, Barnard A, Burger H, De Vos A, Evans K, Farrant L, Fouché N, Kalula S, Morgan J, Mohamed Z, Panieri E, Ras T, Raubenheimer P, Verburg E, Boyd K, Gwyther L. (2022). A Delphi study to guide the development of a clinical indicator tool for palliative care in South Africa. Afr J Prim Health Care Fam Med. 2022 19;14(1):e1-e7. doi: 10.4102/phcfm.v14i1.3351. PMID: 35695438; PMCID: PMC9210161.

Nurses’ Experiences of Caring for Dying Patients with End Stage Kidney Disease (ESKD) following Withdrawal of Dialysis–A South African Perspective. International Journal of Africa Nursing Sciences, 100460.

Fouché, N. A., Bidii, D. B., & De Swardt, C. (2022). An Exploration of Nephrology

Mayers, P, Mobara, & Fouché, N. The Lived Experience of Muslims living with a Stoma in relation to their Cultural and Religious Practices in Cape Town, South Africa. Submitted and accepted 2023 to Journal of Wound, Ostomy, and Incontinence Nursing.

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-0676-8745