De Lange, Santel; Heyns, Tanya; Filmalter, Cecilia Jacoba(Elsevier, 2024-06)
BACKGROUND :
Transfer of patients from the prehospital to the in-hospital environment is a frequent occurrence requiring a handover process. Habitually, emergency care practitioners and healthcare professionals focus ...
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Novel digital methods of simulation are gaining popularity in nursing education in light of the limited access to clinical placement and expensive high-fidelity simulation technologies.
AIM :
The aim ...
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Because of university closures due to COVID-19 confinement, video-based simulation, a training technique
based on high-fidelity simulations, was introduced in reaction to the need to adapt high-fidelity ...
IINTRODUCTION :
People living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) face several stressors. It is important that they get both physical, emotional, spiritual, and psychosocial support. Sexual partners are highly encouraged to offer the ...
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Parents of babies admitted to the neonatal unit experience considerable stress related to the neonatal environment and condition of the neonate. During admission, care is provided by healthcare providers ...
Jordaan-Schlebusch, Christel; Minnie, C. Susanna(Elsevier, 2023)
Midwives are important role players in providing women-centred care for low-risk pregnant women.
South African women use either public or private health care services during pregnancy and birth. As the public sector is ...
Masimula, Queen Khanyisile; Van der Wath, Anna Elizabeth; Coetzee-Prinsloo, Isabel(Elsevier, 2023)
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Ineffective workplace relationships and an inconducive workplace culture contribute to poor job satisfaction and high nurse educator turnover rates. The aim of the study was to implement a program to transform ...
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Universally, postgraduate nursing students' study progress is particularly concerning as this impacts completion within a prescribed minimum time.
PURPOSE :
To identify and map out the breadth of evidence ...
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Nurses document wounds to direct and evaluate the care. People admitted to emergency departments with wounds should be regarded as potential forensic patients, requiring meticulous documentation for evidence ...
BACKGROUND : The psychometric properties of a clinical assessment tool used in the postgraduate
midwifery programme in Botswana have not been evaluated. A lack of reliable and valid
clinical assessment tools contributes ...
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The genetic condition of oculocutaneous albinism is disproportionately present in Africa. Little research has addressed the experiences of mothers impacted by albinism, even though they are more likely to ...
Duvenage, Christelle; Van Wyk, Neltjie C.; Leech, Ronell(Elsevier, 2024)
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Tonsillectomies are generally performed on paediatric patients in ambulatory settings. The children are discharged after a short post-operative period of three to four hours which results in their parents ...
De Lange, Santel; Heyns, Tanya; Filmalter, Cecilia Jacoba(Wiley, 2024-05)
AIM : To reach consensus on the definition and attributes of ‘person-centred handover practices’ in emergency departments.
BACKGROUND : Handover practices between emergency care practitioners and healthcare professionals ...
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES : To establish consensus on items to be included in an instrument to measure person-centred teamwork in a hospital setting. The objective was to identify the items through a methodological literature ...
Mosehla, Kgadi Ruth(University of Pretoria, 2023-07-17)
Introduction: South Africa is experiencing maternal and neonatal mortality challenges due to pregnancy related conditions such as hypertension, obstetric haemorrhage and HIV in pregnancy. There are gaps when it comes to ...
Although roll-out of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has been reported to have changed contexts of HIV risk in areas where it was well-implemented. The rate of its uptake and retention amongst young females has not ...
BACKGROUND : The Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak rose rapidly and had a strenuous impact on the healthcare systems. As the health system responded to the pandemic, there was a change in the care rendered. Additionally, ...
Rossouw, Seugnette; Maree, Carin; Latour, Jos M.(Wiley, 2024-01)
PURPOSE : Management of children following a drowning incident is based on specific interventions which are used in the prehospital environment, the emergency department (ED) and the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). ...
BACKGROUND : There are many factors during pregnancy and labor that influence women’s acceptability of maternal
healthcare. Nevertheless, the concept of acceptability of maternal healthcare has unfortunately not been ...
INTRODUCTION : Ultrasound scan is one of the essential assessments that is crucial in the early identification of health
risks during antenatal care. Its accessibility to women in low-and middle-income countries remains ...