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(Oxford University Press, 2024-10)BACKGROUND: Compliance with Patients’ Rights by nurses is a crucial determinant of how well healthcare services are provided. Nurses are responsible for upholding Patients’ Rights because they spend so much time with ...
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(Elsevier, 2024-11)OBJECTIVE : This integrative review aimed to identify the common characteristics of moral distress in nursing and distinguish it from other types of distress by examining nurses’ perspectives in the literature. These ...
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(MDPI, 2024-02-15)Stigma is one of the documented barriers to achieving universal access to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and tuberculosis (TB) prevention, treatment, care, and support programs. The lack of African social theories ...
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(Elsevier, 2024-11-18)BACKGROUND : Despite the evidence in favour of holistic fertility treatment, barriers to ensuring access to dedicated, comprehensive care, based on women’s needs, still exist, specifically observed in Ghana, the context ...
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(Elsevier, 2024-08-14)BACKGROUND : The World Health Organisation (WHO) and other legislative mandates such as South African Mental Health Care Act 17 of 2002, advocate for mental health services to be rendered at the community level closer ...
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(Elsevier, 2024-11-15)BACKGROUND : Mental health care users displaying violent and aggressive behaviour is a serious concern in mental health care institutions. Nurses working in mental health care institutions are more exposed to patient ...
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(BMC, 2025-02)BACKGROUND : Midwives play a pivotal role in ensuring safe childbirth, particularly in the management of obstetric emergencies and complications (EmONC). Continuous Professional Development (CPD) programs are essential to ...
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(IFE Center for Psychological Studies, 2024-06)BACKGROUND : Severe unbearable pain leads to maternal exhaustion, prolonged labour and foetal distress and needs to be managed. The management of pain during the first stage of labour is affected by workplace culture. It ...
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(IFE Center for Psychological Studies, 2024-06)Students are part of a diverse higher education community. Their attitudes and beliefs are embedded in interaction with lecturers, fellow-students and curricula exposure. It navigates and prepares them for their professional ...
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(IFE Center for Psychological Studies, 2024-06)The Centralised Chronic Medicine Dispensing and Distribution (CCMDD) programme, introduced in South Africa in 2014, works in partnership with the Health Systems Trust (HST) on behalf of the National Department of Health. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020-07)Background South Africa is amongst countries with high neonatal mortality rates. The Department of Health has introduced strategies to promote good neonatal care practices within the healthcare institutions around the ...
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(Wiley, 2024-05)AIM : To assess the mediating role of emotion regulation and emotional intelligence in the relationship between stress and academic engagement among Saudi undergraduate nursing students. DESIGN : This study employed a ...
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(Universitas Diponegoro, 2024-04-30)BACKGROUND : Although previous studies focusing on nurses’ perceptions of caring for people living with HIV (PLHIV) have been conducted in numerous countries, little is known about first-year student nurses’ perceptions ...
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(Sage, 2024-11)This paper offers a critical discussion of the evolution and impact of an international nursing writing group, developed to support nursing faculty and academics globally. Amid the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, ...
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Elements of a care pathway for human trafficking victims in emergency departments : a mapping review (Wiley, 2025-02)BACKGROUND : Human trafficking, a form of modern slavery, is a global health problem. Human trafficking victims may need health care while they are being exploited, and traffickers often take victims to emergency departments ...
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(AOSIS, 2024-12)BACKGROUND: Globally, reports have shown that pregnant women refuse to receive the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine. This has posed a significant concern given the global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. AIM: ...
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(AOSIS, 2024-10)BACKGROUND: A well-managed performance management process can significantly influence professional nurses’ job satisfaction and improve patient outcomes. Conversely, ineffective management of the process can lead to ...
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(AOSIS, 2024-11)BACKGROUND: At the time of the research, the nurses in the designated hospital’s emergency department did not implement person- and family-centred care to the detriment of patients and families. They were, however, eager ...
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(Women's Health and Action Research Centre, 2024-10)Despite many interventions already implemented, teenage pregnancy remains a public health problem globally. This scoping review assessed if incorporating Ubuntu principles and values in the interventions for preventing ...
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(AOSIS, 2024-11)BACKGROUND: In South Africa, many mental healthcare users reside in rural areas and 91% of them live with their family members. Exploring and describing the needs of family members caring for mental healthcare users is ...