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Theses and Dissertations (Nursing Science): Recent submissions
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-12-01)INTRODUCTION: An ideal performance management process may ensure the job satisfaction of professional nurses and quality care to patients. The acknowledgement of nurses’ good performance and the creation of working ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Background: Screening of patients in the community is important and is a commonly used indicator to detect, prevent and treat abnormal changes. Two examples of these changes are elevated blood pressure or a rise in blood ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)ABSTRACT Grandparenting is a new global social phenomenon emerging whereby grandparents take part in caring for their grandchildren. Grandparent headed families occur due to various societal factors, including the death ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Tuberculosis remains a contagious disease and a major global public health burden. It can be cured. However, treatment compliance is a major challenge for the prevention and control of this fatal disease. Interventions to ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Introduction: The prevalence of mental illness is rising in all regions of the world. There is an increased need for family caregiving in South Africa due to deinstitutionalization that leads to a reduction of in-patient ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Background: In South Africa, nurse educators are trained at various higher education Institutions. The indispensable knowledge and skills of nurse educators should enable the development of a curriculum. Failure to ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-07)Nursing students face challenges with integrating theoretical knowledge from their education into real clinical settings due to differences between the nursing theory and clinical practices in healthcare-services. This ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Introduction: Spinal Cord Injury is one of the most devastating conditions affecting a person's physical, psychological, and social well-being. The World Health Organisation estimates that the annual global incidences of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-05)Introduction and background: The increased rate of inadequate acute post-operative pain level assessment among nurses working in surgical wards is a major concern, worldwide, including in South Africa. Literature confirms ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Birth asphyxia is a major contributor to neonatal mortality worldwide resulting in neonatal mortality and morbidity. Birth asphyxia is the fifth largest cause of death in children under the age of 5 years. According to ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Introduction Cryptorchidism is one of the most common congenital anomalies found in boys and of great concern in developing countries. In developed countries cryptorchidism is diagnosed very early in childhood and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-07-16)Learning is essential in all specialties of nursing. Continuous professional development in the form of in-service training became a resource of daily practice as nurses should stay competent throughout their career in an ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-02)Operating room efficiency continues to be a high priority for hospitals throughout the world. Operating theatres are valuable and costly resources that require adequate human resources, appropriate design, and are well ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Abstract Introduction: Traditional substances use and practices are common in rural communities and are believed to be effective. Mothers are using traditional substances in the early stages of life as part of cultural ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Background Giving birth to a high-risk or critically ill baby who is admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) for special care, portends maternal distress, anxiety, depression, and feelings of ambivalence and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Background: Nurse-sensitive indicators (NSI) are tools specifically related to nursing care that can be used to measure nurses’ contribution to patients’ outcomes. NSI are important for demonstrating and evaluating quality ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Introduction: Climate poses a threat to global development, and Africa is the continent that is most vulnerable to its consequences. Although climate change is a challenge, it is not among the important problems the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Intraoperative hypothermia is a common complication experienced in nearly all surgical patients, as general anaesthesia inhibits the body’s thermoregulation. Intraoperative hypothermia increases the patient’s risk for ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Background: Midwives are expected to provide holistic care for pregnant women during antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal care; however, who is caring for them psychologically when they experience loss of pregnancy? ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Introduction Rapidly expanding and increasing introduction of technology in nursing care necessitates the readiness of nurse educators to include technology in the presentation of a new nursing programme. Although technology ...
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