he transmission of HIV through sexual intercourse remains a challenge, especially where women are not able to negotiate the use of condoms. KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Province has the highest globally reported antenatal HIV ...
Qualitative research was conducted in a particular hospital in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. The researchers explored the emotions which professional nurses experience while caring for HIV / AIDS patients, the ...
The Africa Journal of Nursing and Midwifery is proud to announce its inclusion in the South African list of 8 approved journals from January 2008. This is a milestone of great importance as the journal (AJNM) will provide ...
The overall aim of the meetings was to contribute to the capacity building of nurses and midwives as frontline health decision makers in accelerating action at country level in addressing Human Resources for Health (HRH) ...
Ehlers, Valerie Janet, 1948-(Department of Advanced Nursing Sciences, Unisa, 2009)
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN), a trade union organisation for nurses and midwives from the United Kingdom (UK) hosts an annual International Nursing Research Conference at different venues throughout the UK. The theme ...
The emergency treatment of patients with acute chest pain influences the immediate outcomes and the long-term prognosis. The characteristics of each individual experiencing an acute chest pain episode can influence the ...
The purpose of the study was to determine self-perceived competencies of the Nurse Midwife Technicians (NMTs) who completed the two year upgrading programme at the Malawi College of Health Sciences when providing comprehensive ...
At the first editorial board meeting of 2009, it was decided that the AJNM should strive to publish nine worthwhile articles per issue, and continue to publish two issues per year. Some past issues contained only five ...
It was a privilege to attend the above conference, and to meet authors and editors from a number of different African countries, universities and institutions concerned with publications. I presented a paper entitled : ...
An alternative nursing education system was adopted by Botswana to improve its clinical nursing education, employing preceptorship as a clinical teaching approach. Myrick (2002:154) states that although preceptorship is ...
Dinho, A.E.; Van der Merwe, M.M.; Ehlers, V.J.(2009)
A quantitative, explorative, descriptive contextual study was conducted to determine to what extent the malaria control measures proposed by the Tanzanian government had been implemented by parents of children aged 0-5 who ...
The objective of this research was to develop and evaluate a set of life-skill techniques designed to prevent premature sexual relations among junior high school learners in Thailand. All participants completed a questionnaire ...
In South Africa, unplanned pregnancies, especially in black communities remain a challenge. This survey was conducted at a nursing college in South Africa to identify and describe factors that contributed to pregnancies ...
Teenage pregnancy is a global public health problem, which results in inevitable interruptions in their education. In some instances, dropping out of school is temporary, but some of teenagers do not return to school. The ...
Adherence rates of at least 95% are required for optimum viral suppression and the prevention of viral mutation of drug resistant HIV strains, measured by CD4 cell and viral load counts, especially at the beginning of ...
The purpose of this study was to explore bereavement and grief or a sense of loss in HIV-positive women attending antenatal clinics.
An exploratory, descriptive and qualitative research design was used. Purposive sampling ...
Nurses and midwives throughout Africa face dire consequences of HIVAIDS in their daily lives. Much of Africa's healthcare resources are spent on HIV / AIDS. Worldwide many research reports have been published on HIV / ...
The convention took place from 31 October to 4 November 2009 at the Indiana Convention Centre in Indianapolis, Indiana. At the convention the global nursing community was represented to share diverse experiences, perspectives ...
The 1st International Military Nursing Conference hosted by the South African Military Health Service (SAMHS) under the command of the Surgeon General (SG) of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF), was held in ...
Jooste, K.; Van der Vyfer, M.; Van Dyk, A.(Unisa, 2010)
Since its implementation in 1985, the nursing process in Namibia - for unknown reasons - had been utilised with difficulty. The purpose of this paper is to describe the development of a programme to operationalise the ...