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IntNSA South Africa’s vision is to improve public wellbeing in South Africa by
organising and developing full spectrum addiction care nurses, by advancing
evidence-based intervention and treatment along the continuum of alcohol and
drug use, and by caring for diverse populations affected by substance use.

IntNSA South Africa’s mission is to build a community of practice of harm
reduction & addiction nurses in South Africa in order to provide opportunities
for nurses to contribute to the specialized field in the furtherance of public
health, social transformation, and the development of the nursing profession.
The overall mission of the society is fulfilled through the following aims and
objectives

Public benefit aims and objectives

 * Support practices, services and standards of care that are evidence-based,
   human-rights based and will generate knowledge that increases patient safety,
   health and wellbeing. Support drug policy development and urgent regional
   development of a human rights-based approach to substance use and addiction
   care.
 * Work towards a health-enabling social and political environment which
   addresses structural drivers of ill health, vulnerability to addiction and
   reduces stigma and discrimination towards people who use drugs, and their
   communities. Promote social cohesion and healing from the past.
 * Amplify the contributions of nurses, service users, significant others and
   patients so that their input into service delivery, policy, research
   (including research agendas) and resource allocation can positively impact
   health outcomes in South Africa.
 * Protect the public from misinformation, poor standards of care and fraudulent
   and unregistered service delivery.

Strategic Goals

 * Develop the IntNSA South Africa local chapter as a forum to network and
   support nurses working in addiction. Contribute to the development of an
   African Dept in the future.
 * Identify needs, deficits and gaps of nurses and services and plan
   interventions and activities to address these.
 * Seek opportunities for members to contribute to education, policy, service
   delivery and program development in line with our values and mission and to
   participate in social change activities.
 * Enable nursing knowledge production, the development of nursing theory and
   practice, and improve public health policy and education.
 * Through research, fundraising, education and advocacy find and develop
   resources useful to South African nurses in the addiction and mental health
   sector.
 * Build mechanisms for addressing quality service delivery across the full
   spectrum of addiction care.

Our values

We operate according to the principles of transparency, diversity, communal
effort, active inclusivity, authenticity, intersectionality and the progressive
realisation of social justice and human rights for all.

 * We value the art and science of nursing and seek knowledge and skill in the
   practice of our profession. We support non-professional nurses, and community
   health workers, to reach their highest potential.
 * Our work domain includes all addiction care related issues (process and
   substance related) and all novel interventions and treatments concerning
   psychoactive substances (their associated risks, harms and benefits).
 * Our integral approach to the field includes addressing co-morbidities,
   precipitating, protective and perpetuating factors and adjacent influences
   that affect health outcomes in addiction and substance use.
 * We advocate for the application of evidence and theory as foundations of the
   body of knowledge and clinical skills across all practice settings, in
   diverse populations, throughout the lifespan.
 * We commit to the development of expert nurses in their clinical, research,
   education, coordination and advocacy roles. We appreciate these core practice
   areas as critical to full spectrum addiction care and harm reduction.
 * We value prioritizing work that addresses health and drug policy, education,
   practice guidelines and standards of care which affect the wellbeing of
   nurses and the public, at all levels (institutional, local, provincial,
   national and international) of social organisation.
 * We integrate and apply knowledge from other disciplines and sciences for the
   benefit of patients, within our scope of practice. We support and collaborate
   with other addiction professionals and drug user rights advocates. We
   specifically integrate theory and practice that nursing has not yet benefited
   from e.g. social change theory, patient-led advocacy, critical diversity
   literacy, power relations, health behaviour change theory, harm reduction. We
   use a whole person, multi-disciplinary approach.
 * We ensure that efforts at addressing quality of care aligns with the 7
   domains of quality service delivery as used by the South African department
   of health, and other Southern African countries.
 * We commit to including nurses and voices who are usually excluded from
   educational, research, leadership or career opportunities so that they may
   develop to their highest potential.

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