PhD (Nur), Paed Dip, Comm Health Dip, RN

Minette is the founding Director of The Harry Crossley Children’s Nursing Development Unit, a UCT teaching and scholarship unit. She is committed to building children’s nursing in Africa, for Africa, and growing the children’s nursing workforce across the continent. This includes intentional education and clinical practice development with a deep commitment to developing and using locally relevant tools that articulate, teach and celebrate context-specific nursing practice, with metrics able to measure the effect and impact of evidence-based nursing practice.

Minette has led the participative design of region-specific and purpose-fit curricula for training children's nurses leading to the in-country accreditation of 10 new curricula in 7 countries in east and southern Africa. Minette also works with nurses in clinical services ranging from community and primary care settings to specialist hospitals and PICU, to help nurses to articulate the work they do and strengthen aspects of local practice. She is a past vice-president of the World Federation of Paediatric Intensive and Critical Care and continues to serve this global community across sub-Saharan Africa.

In all of her work, Minette strives to build capacity in authentic ways that enable children’s nursing, clinicians, educators and researchers from across the African region to articulate their best practices and contribution to building future generations of unapologetically excellent children’s nurses.