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Purpose: This article provides an overview of the implications for patients’
health status and care needs when assessments are performed by nurses not
licensed or competent to perform this task. TheWaterlowTM scale (Judy ...
Management of HIV/AIDS in the healthcare workplace poses a challenge to nurse managers, as many
nurses are affected by HIV. A workplace wellness programme (WWP) is a strategy that enhances organisational health
and ...
Du Plessis, Diana; Roets, Liseth(University of South Africa, 2014)
Despite changes in politics, policies and emerging technologies, many women have little autonomy over the birthing process. Over the last decade, a gradual shift towards independent midwifery care services has emerged and ...
The Namibian Treatment Guidelines of 2011 for hypertension management provide
evidence-based care protocols for effective management of hypertension.
Documentation of health care in clients’ records is important to ensure ...
The purpose of this paper was to brief nurses under Tshwane District on the International Council of Nurses (ICN) 2018 International Nurses’ Day (IND) theme. The ICN toolkit was downloaded and a full exploration of the ...
Provision of municipal services to urban residents particularly those residing in small towns across developing countries, is facing challenges. A small town or rural district of Luwingu in Zambia, is no exception. This ...
The study focuses on the impact of the Boko Haram Muslim terrorist group on the socioeconomic well‐being and livelihood of the population in the north‐east of Nigeria. To research the social, economic, religious and political ...
It is increasingly becoming apparent that elections, as component parts of democratic processes, do not always guarantee a smooth transfer of power and stable democratic cultures in many contemporary polities. Whenever ...
The purpose of the study was to develop a short course to inculcate the spirit of Ubuntu amongst the student nurses at Limpopo College of Nursing at Limpopo Province. A sequential explanatory research design was used and ...
Energy poverty is a major obstacle to human development. Energy services supply the benefits that “trigger” wider social and economic changes and create the conditions for improving social equality and economic growth. The ...
South African institutions of higher learning remain unfriendly and hostile environments for queer students who reportedly continue to experience homophobia, biphobia and transphobia in these spaces. This qualitative enquiry ...
Roets, Liseth; Van Rijswijck, O.(Navorsings Artikel, 1999)
Endometriosis has been recognized as
one of the possible causes for infertility.
If endometriosis occurs more often in a
women who uses tampons comparing
to those who do not, it is an important
point of discussion to ...
Premature labour is and remains an actual problem. There will always be mothers
that undergo the crisis of having a premature baby.
The unique needs ofthese mothers remains unfutfliled. Possible reasons fo r this are
that ...
Roets, Liseth; Aucamp, M.C.; De Beer, H.; Niemand, M.(University of the Free State, 2002)
The aim of this research project was to evaluate the recordkeeping
of postoperative nursing care. A total of 186 randomly
selected patient records were evaluated in terms of
a checklist that included the most important ...
Roets, Liseth; Marthese, B.; Nel, M.; Van der Vyfer, M.; Wilke, B.(2003)
The transmission of HIV/AIDS from mother to child is
the main cause of HIV/AIDS in children and child mortality.
Two-thirds of children with HIV/AIDS are infected
in the intrapartum period (Farley, 2000:1 -2). ...
The purpose of the research was to describe the experience of nurses in the studied
hospital who had been exposed to possible HIV infection during injury or exposure
on duty.
A qualitative phenomenological descriptive ...
Mubiana, Precious; Easterbrook, Cheryl(Unisa Centre for Applied Psychology, 2009)
The year, 1998, saw the reopening of the UNISA Centre
for Applied Psychology (UCAP) by Juan Nel, a man with a
vision, to create a ‘space’ where people and professionals
alike could be empowered. With this in mind, ...
Late booking is associated with high perinatal and maternal morbidity and mortality. The World Health Organization (WHO, 2016) recommends that pregnant women should book for ANC full first before 12 weeks of gestation. The ...
Background: The Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Framework established by the South African Nursing Council (SANC) states that organisations have a responsibility to create enabling environments in which the ...
This paper will critically look at the contemporary African borders and their historical definition and their purpose in today’s socio - political terrain. In attempting to understand the African borders discourse and their ...