DENOSA supports, represents and develops its members as the backbone of South African health care To embark on organisational renewal and growth path through among other thing, marketing DENOSA Professional Institute as a nurse development and empowerment vehicle and assert professionalism as a strategic pillar to salvage the image of nursing To this end the DENOSA Professional Institute was established with generous funding provided by Atlantic Philanthropies in September 2009 which augmented the internal DENOSA funding used for the programme